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XIV. 



A DESCRIPTION of the PLANT BUTEA, 



By Dr. Roxburgh* 



L T | ^HE Maduga of the Gentdos,£vid Plafo of the Hortus Malabar kus, * is a 



-&■ middle fized, or rather a large, tree not very common on the lowlands 



of this coaft, . but much more fo up amongft the mountains : it cafls its 



leaves during the cold feafon, they come out again with the flowers about 



the months of March and April t and the feed is ripe in June or July. 



Trunk irregular, generally' a little crooked, covered with afh-coloured s 

 fpongy, thick, flightly fcabrous bark, the middle flrata of which con- 

 tain a red }uice- hereafter to be mentioned. 



Branches very irregularly bent In various directions 3 young moots downy . 



Leaves alternate, fp reading, threed, from eight to fixteen inches long. 

 Leaflets emarginated, or rounded at the apex, leathery, above mining and 

 prtity . fmooth, below flightly hoary, entire: the pair are obliquely oval 

 from four to feven inches long, and from three to four and a half broad, the 

 exterior one inverfe hearted,, or, in other words, tranfverfely oval, and 

 eonfiderably larger than the lateral. 



Gcmmon Petiole round, when young, downy, the length of the leaflets. 

 Stipules of the Petiole fmall, recurved, downy. 

 - ■ 1 of the Leaflets awled. 



? The Butia Fr$ndoJa of Koinic. 



