BrxEA.] l.BGVMINOSM. 239 



Siwalik range, Eohilkhand, N. Oudh, Agra dist. Bundelkhand and Mer- 

 wara. Distbib.: Punjal) Plain, Eajpntana, Central and S. India. The 

 old leaves fall during the cold season, and the young foliage appears in 

 March, shortly before the flowers open. The wood is very soft, hut 

 tough, and is used chiefly for making scabbards and sieve-frame, and 

 occasionally for planking. 



Var. glabrescens, Prain in Jovorn. As. Soc. Bencj. LXVI, pt. 2 (1897), 410. 

 Leaflets as in type, but glabrescent beneath at an early stage.— Dehra 

 Dun and Saharanpur forests. Distbib.: Hot valleys of W. Himalaya 



. from Bashahr eastward to Sikkim ; also in Burma and on the Shan 

 HiUs. 



26. GALACTIA, P. Br.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 192. 



Twining herbs with 3-foliolate stipelkte leaves ; like Glycine in 

 tabit, but with the node.> of tbe raceme slightly tumid. Cali/oc-fube 

 short ; teeth linear or lanceolate, tbe 2 uppermost entirely fused in 

 one. Corolla little exserted, its petals nearly equal in length ; keel 

 obtuse, nearly straii^ht. Stamens 2-adelphous, anthers uniform. 

 Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled ; style long, tiliform, beardless, stigma 

 capitate. Pod linear, flattened, recurved. — Species about 50, chiefly 

 Trop. American. 



G. villosa. W. ^ A. Frod. 207 ; Train in Journ. As. 8oc. Beng. LXVI, 

 %>t. 2, 411. G. tenuiflora var. villosa, F. B. I. ii, 192. 



Stems, leaves beneath and pods densely grey-downy. Leaflets 1-1 1 in. 

 long, oval or oblong. Flowers fewer and smaller than in (?. tenuiflora. 

 Calyx campanulate, softly hairy. 



Bundelkhand (Edgeworth), Guna (King). Distbib.: W. Behar (Kurz) 

 to S. India and Burma. Wight and Arnott (l.c ) remark that when 

 the leaves are old they become more glabrous, especially those near the 

 root, but in G. tenuiflora they are not villous at any period. 



27. BUTEA, Roxb.; Tl. Brit. Ind. ii, 194. 



Erect trees or climbing shrubs, witb 3-foliolate large stipellate 

 leaves. Flowers densely fascicled, large, sbowy, in axillary racemes, 

 or in terminal racemes or panicles. Calyx broadly campanulate; 

 teeth short, deltoid. Corolla much exserted ; petals nearly equal in 

 length, keel much curved, subobtuse or acute. Stamens 2-adelphous, 

 anthers uniform. Ouarij sessile or stalked, 2-ovuled ; style iiliform, 

 curved, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod firm, ligulate, splitting 

 round tbe single apical seed, indebiscent below. — Species 3, all Indian. 

 A. tree . . • • • . !• B. frondosa, 

 A large climbing shrub • • , 2. B. superla. 



