282 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) IBauhinia 



sepals deltoid, petals much exserted. B. scandens, Hoxb. Sort. Beng. 31 ; FL 

 Ind. ii. 326 ; Wight Jc. t. 264, non Linn. Phanera macrostachya, Benth. FL 

 Jungh. 262. 



Sii^UETV, Boxburgh, Wallich. A^sam, Hamilton. 



Branches glabrous, with copious stalked geminate tendrils. Leaves round-cordate, 

 rigidly sut coriaceous, subglabrous, 3-4 in. long, -vrith an open deltoid sinns reaching 

 ^-\ down and deltoid subacute lobes. Flowers in forked or simple peduncled narrow 

 fiublax racemes ^-^ ft. long; bracts minute, deltoid; pedicels \-^ in., clotjied lik& 

 the calyx with fine grey silky pubescence. Calyx-txxbe \ in. ; limb campanulate, i m., 

 regularly 5-cleft half-way down. Fetals \ in., obovate, clawed, densely silky. Ovary 

 densely ferrugineo-tomentose ; stalk and style short. Pod ligulate, 4-6 in. by 2 in.r 

 flat, indehiscent, persistently tomentose, 2-4-seeded. 



grey, pedicels very short, calyx-tube cylindrical, limb spatbaceous entire as long 

 as the tube, petals much exserted. 



BiBMA, Griffith, ^ ^ 



Stems slender, scandent, glabrescent. Leaves rigidly subcoriaceous, slightly cor- 

 date, glabrous, broader than long, 3-4 in. long, with a broadly rounded sinus reaching 

 halfway down and divergent deltoid acuminate lobes. i?acemes copious, few-flowerea, 

 congested, sessile, axillary; pedicels scarcely any; bracts minute, deltoid. Calyx-t^ e 

 ^f in. long; limb tough, entire, \ in. broad. Stamens 5. Fetals oblanceokte, three 

 times as long as the limb, glabrous, not clawed. Immature ^pod narrow, \ ft. lo^&» 

 glabrous, with a long stalk. 



thin 



28. B. braoteata, GraK in Wall 



grey, pedicels very long, bracteoles linear, calyx-tube saor 



turbinate, limb exceeding the tube, petals much exserted. Phanera 

 Bmth. FL Jungk. 264. 



Tenasserim, Griffith, Heifer. Siamese gulf, Finlayson, . . ,t ' 



Branchkts finely grey-downy, with copious stout circinate tendrils. Leaves ngKuy 

 coriaceous, slightly cordate, rather longer than broad, 4-6 in. long, glabrous, with a 

 sinus reaching half way down, so narrow that the dimidiate deltoid subacute lobe^ 

 touch each other. Corymbs many-flowered, short-peduncled, axillary, \^ ft ^°^^' 

 bracts large, lanceolate, persistent ; pedicels ascending, slender, clothed like the caiy 

 with fine grey pubescence, furnished with a pair of opposite linear bracteoles ahov 

 the middle, the lower ones 2-3 in. long. Calyx-tuha \-\ in. ; sepals |-| in., ^^"^ ' 

 late, subconnate. Fetals above 1 in. long, with a tomentose claw, exceeding the co - 



en 



stigm 



29. B. involucellata, Ktirz in Journ. Asiat. Sac. Beiig. xlii. 2, ^ j 

 leaves 9-11-nerved, pubescence thin, pedicels very long, bracteoles large oblong; 

 flowers large, calyx-limb as long as the tube, petals much exserted. 



Mabtaban. Br. Brandts 



Leaves thinly cn^ 



^ V.olf--nrnvd0Wn 



pedicels 2-2|^ in. ; bracteoles oblong, subobtuse 



Racemes lax. terminal 



CalU' 



velvety ; tube ;! in. or more long ; teeth lanceolate acummate, nnauy ireu '"'"V'^ig^, 

 Fetah pale rose, I^ in. long, with an ovate-oblong obtuse blade as long as the 



e, \ in. long, velvety within, j^^^ 

 ate acuminate, finally free and relief 



Ovary 



Fod unknown. Ex 



«#••• 



Leaves deeply cleft 

 glabrous beneath when mature 



WalL Cat. 5785 ; cirrhose, pubescence thin ^^fj^b 









