shrubby, unarmed; leaves rounded at base, netted-veined beneath, glabrous; leaflets obliquely oblong, 3–4-nerved, obtuse, concrete for a short distance above the base; peduncles terminal, very short, 2–3-flowered; flowers very shortly pedicelled; calyx tube cylindrical, puberulous, its limb spathaceous, reflexed; petals lanceolate, tapering at base, strongly midribbed and penninerved; stamens 10, fertile, unequal. “A tree, covered with white blossoms; would make a good ornamental tree for a garden, H.B. —Allied to B. tomentosa, from which it may be at once known by its very different petals; those of B. tomentosa are broadly obovate, retuse, and neither strongly midribbed (ribbed only at base) nor penninerved. The young twigs, petioles, and nerves of leaves, and the calyx are minutely puberulous. Stipules inconspicuous. Leaflets 1 inch long, 6–7 lines wide; petiole 1/2 inch long. Petals 1 1/2 inch long, scarcely 1/2 inch wide.
