BATJHINIA RACEMOSA. (Nat. order Leguminosse.) 



BaUHINIA. Linn. — GEN. CHAE. Sepals united at the base in a short or long disk-beariDg tube, the free part spathaceous and Bubentire 

 or separating into 5 or fewer valvate or.iuduplieate lobes, petals 5 inserted at the summit of the tube usually clawed often more or less unequal, stamens 

 10 free or more or less mouadelphous, either all perfect or some leduced to stauiiuodia or altogether wanting, sometimes there is an inner verticil (prolouc- 

 ation of the torus) nearly entire or cut into short bristle-like threads, ovary stipitate the stipe free or aduate to one side of the calyx-tube, ovules several ; 

 style filiform or rarely wanting, stigma capitate or dilated, legume linear or oblong compressed, 2 valved, seeds compressed, albumen usually thin, radicle 

 short and straight. Trees, woody climbers or shrubs, leaflets 2, generally united into a 2-lobed or nearly entire leaf with 5-11 digitate nerves or rarely 

 distinct from the base, racemes terminal.— Piliostigtna, Eochstett. Phanera, Lour. Symphyopoda, DC. Pauletia, Cuv. Amaria, Mutism DC. Casparia, 

 DO. Lasiobeuia, Miff. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. part i. 71. Adenolobus, Harvey. Schuella, Maihli. Caulotretus, DC. Lacara, Sprang. Tylotia, Vog. Lysiphyllum, 

 Benth. Perlebia, Mart. 



BATJHINIA RACEMOSA. (Lam.) A small tree, bark dark scabrous, leaves cordate at the base, upper side glabrous, under 

 shortly -villous or glabrous, leaflets roundish or broadly obova.te, united to or beyond the middle 3-uerved, racemes solitary terminal or 

 leaf opposed, leafless much longer than the leaves ; flowers scattered small whitish, calyx spathaceous at length reflexed 5 toothed at the 

 apex pubescent, petals linear lauceulate ascending, slightly hairy on the outside, rather unequal, stamens 10 all fertile, mouadelphous, 

 unequal, filaments and anthers bearded withlongish hairs, ovary glabrous long stalked, stalk free, style none, stigma flat sessile, legume 

 linear straightish or curved woody thick scarcely dehiscing, many seeded. Lam. Encycl. Aleth. i. p. 390; — WA. Prod- p. 295. 

 B. parviflora, Vahl. ; — lloxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 323. Piliostigma racemosa, Hock. 



This is generally a crooked very ramous tree; it is very common throughout this Presidency, and in Bombay, Bengal, Burmah and 

 Ceylon, and ascends the mountains to about 'iilW feet ; it is called Aree in Teligu, Archee in Tamil, Aup'.a in Bombay, Ban raj in Bengal, and 

 Myld in Ceylon; the wood is small, but the heart-wood is very hard and fine, a cubic foot weighs ivhen seasoned 44 lbs. Matchlock-men almost 

 always make their slow matches from its bark, which is boiled, dried, and beaten, and then burns well and slowly, without any substance being 

 mixed with it ; ropes are also made from the bark ; the tree is said to be worshipped by the Hindoos during the Dussera in the Bombay presidency, 

 and is sometimes called Wuwd rajah (King of the jungle). Elephants are very fond of the leaves and they are sometimes used for making native 

 cigars. 



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