284 L. LEGUHiNOS^. (J. G. Bakei\) \_Bau7dnia. 



Ghauts of Travancore and Canara. 



An extensive climLer, with slender "branches, clothed at first -vrith fine ferruginous 

 pubescence. Leaves rigidly subcoriaceous, slightly cordate, thinly silky on the ribs 

 when young, the obtuse lobes reaching ^-^ down. Racemes few-flowered, short-pe- 

 duncled, axillary and terminal. Calyx-tuhQ ^-| in. Fertile stamens 6, Petals 

 oblanceolate, with a distinct claw as long as the limb. Ovar^/ densely rusty-downy, 

 with a long style and stalk and small stigma. Pod flat, finely rusty-downy, | ft. long, 

 an inch broad, w^ith a raised rib on either side of the upper suture. 



34. B. purpurea, Linn.} Roxh, Hort. Beng. 31; Fl Lnd. ii. 320; 

 ecirrhose, leaves 9-11-nerved, pubescence grey, pedicels shoii;, sepals not fully 

 distinct exceeding the turbinate tube, petals "^ oblanceolate glabrous exserted. 

 Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 497 ; Wall Cat 5797, excL A, S, I, es paHe ; 

 W. 8; A. Prodr. 296; Bedd. FL Sylv. 92, non DC. B. triandra, Itoxh n&d^ 

 Beng. 31; Fl. Lnd. ii. 320; Wall. Cat.b7dd, B. coromandeliana, i)C. i^"^''- 

 ii, 615. Phanera purpurea, Benth. PL Jungh. 262, 



From the foot of the West Himaxayas and Khasia Mts. (alt. 4000 ft.), to Cetiox 

 and Penakg. — Distrib. China. 



A middle-sized erect tree, with moderately stout glabrescent branchlets. Leaves 

 rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous, shallowly cordate, the lobes obtuse or subacute, reacr^ 

 ing J-^ way down. Flowers in terminal and axillary ehort-peduncled few-flowerea 

 corymbs; bracts minute, deltoid; lower pedicels i-^ in. CalT/x-tuhe ^-J^^-'p.™^ 

 J-1 in., coriaceous, slit into two valves, which show a division into 5 teeth. Fetacs 

 oblanceolate, with a long claw, reddish, twice the calyx. Fertile stamens 3-4. ^^'^V. 

 grey downy, with a long stalk and style and moderately large oblique stigma, ij^ 

 1-1 ft, by 1-1 in., firm, flat, glabrous, late in dehiscing, rather decurved, 12-10- 

 seeded. 



35. B. varlegrata, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. ii. 614; ecirrhose, leaves 9-11- 

 ner\ed, pubescence grey, pedicels short, calyx-linib entire spathaceous e<^i" 

 ing the cylindrical tube, petals glabrous obovate clawed much exserted. n^^j 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 490 ; Poxb. Hort. Beng. 31 ; FL Lnd. n. 319 ; J' ^«- 

 Cat. 5796 ; Bedd. FL Stdv. 92. B, purpurea, JFalL Cat. 5797, ex parte. ^• 

 Candida, Roxh. Hort. Beng. 31 ; FL Lnd. ii. 318 ; WaU. Cat. 5790, non A^^ 

 Phauera variegata, Benth. PL Jungh, 202. 



From the foot of the Western Hihalatas, and Sikkim, alt. 4000 ft., and throug 

 India proper, to Birma. — Distrib. China. ' ' ., „ 



General habit of the last, to which it is closely allied. Leaves rather broader ^a^ 

 deep, middle-sized, rigidly subcoriaceous, deeply cordate, the obtuse lobes reap ^^o 

 ^ ^ down. Corymbs few-flowered, lateral, sessile or short-peduncled; bracts °^'^ * 

 deltoid ; pedicels erecto-patent, \~-\ in.. Ca(ya*-tube J-1 in. ; limb ^ordate-or ^ 

 remaining to the end spathaceous and entire. Petals H~2 in. long, an inch or more D ^^ 

 white, beautifully variegated with red and yellow, sometimes pure white {B. can • 

 Eoxb.) Stamens 3-5. Ovary with along stalk and style and a minute stigma. ^^^ 

 ^-1 ft. long, f-1 in. broad, hard, flat, glabrous, rather decurved, dehiscent, 1 

 seeded. 



Sect. 6. Ziaslobema, Korthals^ gen. Fertile stamens 3. Cahjx- i 

 ficarcely any. Floicers minute, in copiously panicled racemes. 



30, B. an^ulna, Roxb. Cor. PL iii. t. 285 ; FL Lnd. ii. 328 ; DC. I^odr. 

 ii. 510 ; WaU. Cat. 6773 ; W. <§- A. Pfodr. 298. B. scandens, Lhm. ^p: -^*V^ 

 edit. I 374, ex parte (Rheede Hort. Mai. viii. t. 30-31). Lasiohema anguuia ^ 

 Horsfieldii, Miq. FL Lnd. Bat. i. 71. 



From Eastern Bengal and Sikkim to Bieiia and Easteex and >Ves 

 Peninsula.— Distrib. Malay isles, - .. 



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