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BAUHINIA cumanensis 



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Cumana Bauhinia. 



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DIADELPHIA DEQANDRJA 



Nat. ord. LEOUMiNOSic. § CcBsalpiniece, 



BA UHINIA Linn. Sepala 5, irregulariter concreta in calycem 5-fidum 

 aut lateraliter fissum membranaceum. Petala 5, patula, oblonga, subin- 

 cequalia, superiore a cseteris ssep^ distante. Stamina 10, nunc 9 sterilia 

 monadelpha, decimo libera antherifero, nunc im^ basi raonadelpha omnia 

 aut 5 V. 3 fertilia. Ovarium pedicellatum longum. Legumen l-loculare 

 2-valve polyspermum. Semina compressa, ovalia, end<^leur^ tumida. 



Embryo rectus, radicula ovata, cotyledonibus planis. Frutices. Folia 



hiloba, nemp^ constantia foliolis duohus apici petioli sitis 2-5-nerviis, nunc 

 omninb Uteris, nunc omninh concretis, stBpiUs plUs minHs margine interiori 

 nerviformi connatis in sinu aristatis. Flores racemosi. Decand. prodr. 

 2. p. 512. 



§ Caulotretus. 

 Stamina 10 (mnia fertilia et libera petalis sape breviora. Calyx 



ventricosus 5-dentatus sub-bilobus. Ovarium sessile. Caules 



mpk scandentes compressi. Flores albi aut fiavicantes . Dec. 1. c. 

 B. cumanensis; caule sarmentoso, ramulis glabris, foliis basi cordatis subtiis 

 pubescentibus, foliolis membranaceis ovatis subacutis 4-nerviis ad me- 

 dium concretis, racemis terrain alibus solitariis interdiim bifidis vel cir- 



rhiferis. Dec. I. c. 

 B. cumanensis. Humb. et Kuntk. nov. gen. 6. p. 321. 

 B. scandens Americana. Linn. sp. ed. 2. p. 535. MeCaMolUi. 



Caulis compressus, scandens, junior subpilosus. Folia bast cordata, ad 

 medium v. ultrd biloba, lobis divaricatis, acutis, A-veniis, suprd glabris, 

 subtHs pallidis, pubescentibus. Racemi oppositifolii, pauciflori, foliis bre- 

 viores. Pedicelli calycesgue rufo-ptibescentes. Petala alba erecta, pubes- 

 centia, subcequalia, basi rubra punctata. Stamina 10, libera, aqualia, 



fertilia 



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A tender twining stove plant, with handsome fohage 

 and inconspicuous flowers. Native of shady woods in 

 Cumana and other parts of equinoctial America. Itie 

 seeds from which the plant now represented was raised, 

 were received from Rio Janeiro by the Comte de Vandes, 

 in whose Hothouse at Bayswater the figure was taken, in 

 July last. 



