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acuminated ;. racemes axillary or sometimes terminal ; flowers as in 

 E indica, but smaller ; legume 2 to 3-seeded ; seeds remote. Mawul 

 districts, east of the Ghauts ; Guzerat, Dr. Gibson ; Khandeish 

 Auld. The wood of these three species is soft and worthless. 



19. BUTEA, Roxb. 



1. Frondosa, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 244. — Arboreous ; leaves 

 pinnately trifoliolate ; leaflets large, roundish-ovate, coriaceous, 

 entire, slightly hoary beneath ; racemes terminal and axillary, rigid, 

 covered with greenish velvetty tomentum ; flowers very large, 

 orange-red, silky, appear in February ; legume linear, thin, downy, 

 with one seed within its apex. Pretty common throughout the 

 Presidency. Native name " PuUus Kakria." In Guzerat. This 

 tree yields a beautiful ruby-coloured astringent resin called gum 

 Butea, used for precipitating indigo ; the flowers are used as a dye. 

 Wight, in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii, 102; Suppl. t. 32. 



2. Paevifloea, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 248. — A large woody 

 climbing shrub ; panicles axillary and terminal ; flowers small, white, 

 appear in November ; lateral leaflets obliquely oblong, terminal 

 round obovate ; legume broad linear flat, covered with brown- 

 velvetty down ; seed large, thin, reniform. Meera hills, near Penn, 

 and other hilly places south of Panwell. Native name " Phulsun." 



3. SuPERBA, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 247. — Shrubby, twining; racemes 

 simple lax ; pedicels twice the length of calyx ; calyx segments 

 shortish-acuminate ; corol 4 to 5 times longer than calyx ; vexillum 

 ovate acute. Native name " Pullus Wail." This takes the place of 

 Parviflora in the Northern Concan. 



20. PHASEOLUS, Linn. 



1. Trinervius, Heyne, in Wall, list No. 5603 ; W. and A. 

 Prod. 245. — Twining, branches and petioles covered with long- 

 spreading or deflexed hairs ; leaflets ovate acuminated, sometimes 

 lobed at the base ; peduncles much longer than the leaves ; flowers 

 yellow, forming a kind of cylindrical head ; legumes horizontal 

 cylindrical, hairy. Very common. 



2. Trilobus, Ait. Roth. nov. sp. 344. — Procumbent, diffuse ; 

 petioles elongated ; leaflets roundish entire, or 3-lobed ; peduncles 

 much elongated, ascending ; flowers few, small, somewhat capitate, 

 yellow ; legumes cylindrical, smooth or slightly hairy, 6-seeded. Very 

 common on the roadsides and borders of cultivated fields. Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. iii, 298; Syn. Glycine triloba, Linn. Maut. 516; Dolichos 

 trilobus, Linn. Maut. i, 101 ; D stipulaceus, Lam. Encyc. Meth. 

 ii, p 300; P trilobus, Willd. sp. iii, 1035. Native name 

 " Arkmutt." 



