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short, glabrous, incurved ; stigma small. Pod stalked, glabrous, 
cylindric, 5-6 in., contracted between the seeds, long-pointed ; 
seeds 2-5, dark purple. 
Sutlej valley ; March, April. — Throughout India, ascending to 4000 ft. 
The wood is white, soft and light, yet fibrous and tough. It is used for 
making scabbards, sieve-frames, &c. E. indica, the ‘ Coral tree,’ is often planted 
in N. India. 
30. BUTEA. In honour of John, Earl of Bute, a botanical 
author and patron of botany in the eighteenth century. — 
Tropical Asia. 
Butea frondosa, Boxb. ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 194. A tree, 30-50 ft. 
Leaves of 3 leaflets ; leaflets hard, stiff, broadly ovate, entire, 
upper surface nearly glabrous, lower tomentose, lateral about 
3|x2| in., nearly sessile, terminal one about 4|x3| in., long- 
stalked. Mowers deep red, tinged with orange, appearing before 
the leaves, about 2| in. long, in small clusters crowded on axillary 
or terminal racemes. Calyx brown-tomentose, tubular, \ in. ; 
teeth 5, short, the 2 upper united. Petals strongly curved, nearly 
equal, silvery-tomentose outside ; keel acute. Upper stamen free, 
others united. Style long, curved, glabrous ; stigma capitate. 
Pod stalked, tomentose, oblong, about 6 xl| in. ; lower portion 
flat, empty, not opening ; tip swollen, splitting round the single 
seed. 
Sutlej valley, Kalka ; March, April. — Throughout India, ascending to 
4000 ft. 
The DhaTc. The leaves are used as fodder, as plates and as wrapping for 
parcels. A yellow dye prepared from the flowers is in great request during the 
Holi festivities. 
31. PUERARIA. In honour of M. N. Puerari, Professor of 
Botany at Copenhagen in the eighteenth century. — -Tropical Asia, 
China, Japan. 
Pueraria tuberosa, DC. ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 197. A shrub ; 
root tuberous ; stems very long, pubescent, twining. Leaves of 
3 leaflets ; leaflets broadly ovate, entire or sinuate, pointed, 
upper surface nearly glabrous, lower densely hairy, terminal one 
long-stalked, 4-9 in., lateral shortly stalked, smaller, unequally 
sided. Flowers purple-blue, appearing before the leaves, § in. 
long, in small clusters crowded in long, panicled racemes. Calyx 
| in., densely covered with red-brown hairs ; teeth short, acute, 
2 upper nearly or quite united. Standard orbicular ; keel nearly 
straight, obtuse, slightly shorter than the wings. Upper stamen 
free at both ends but connected at the middle with the sheath 
formed by the others. Ovary hairy ; style glabrous, abruptly 
incurved at the base ; stigma small, capitate. Pod flat, densely 
grey-hairy, 2-3 in., deeply constricted between the seeds, tipped 
