Botanical Name - Butea

----- Butea, Roxb. ; F. B. I. II - 194.

----- Trees or large climbing shrubs. Leaves large trifoliolate, stipellate. Flowers large, showy, fascicled in axillary or terminal racemes. Calyx broadly camapnulate. Corolla much exserted ; petals nearly equal in length, keel semicircular. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked. 2-ovuled ; style filiform ; stigma capitate. Pod firm, ligulate, compressed, lower portion flat indehiscent upper 1-seeded, dehiscent.