Bauhinia.] L. leguminos^, (J. G. Baker.) 285 



A climbing glabrous shrub, "u-ith copious circinate tendrils. Leaves thin, deeply 

 cordate, 5-7 -nerved, the cleft very variable, sometimes scarcely perceptible, some- 

 times a deep deltoid sinus and the points acuminate. Racemes cylindrical, 2-6 in. 

 long, arranged in ample axillary and terminal panicles; bracts minute, linear; 

 pedicels ^ in., erecto-patent, finely downy. Calyx ^^ in. long, broadly campanulate, 

 ■^ith 5 deltoid teeth. Petals white, oblanceolate, twice the length of the calj^. Pod 

 tnin, flat, oblong, glabrous, indehiscent, stalked, 1^2 in. long, 1-2-seeded. 



Sect. 6. Casparea, DO. C^/yx-tuhe fusiform; limb spathaceous, 

 Fertile stamen one. 



37. 8. monandra, Kurz in Jour^. Asiat, Soc, Beng. xlii. 2, 73, 



BiRMA, Dr. Brandis, 



Young branches puberulous. Leaves round-ovate, truncate at the base, palmately 



11-nerved, chartaceous, 1-1^ in. long, glabrous above, downy on the ribs below, cut 



one-third down into two rounded lobes. Bacemes short, terminal, pubescent; pedicels 



1^-1} in., densely puberulous; bracts minute, subulate. Calyx downy externally. 



Y^ak Ij in., obovate-cuneate, glabrous, undulated, probably whitish. Ovary staXkA, 



julvo-villose ; style slender, twice as long as the ovary. Pod unknown. — Ex Kurz 

 w. cit. 



BOUBTFUIi SPECIES. 



f 

 L 



B. LuriDA, WalL Cat. 5779 B (totally different from 5779 A), grown in the Cal- 

 th fl ^^^^^^ ^roin Penang, has the fully divided leaves of section Lysiphylhcm, but 

 |ne flower is unknown. The half-leaves are dimidiate cordate-ovate, twice as long as 

 oroad, narrowed gradually to a point, rigidly subcoriaceous, 3-4-nerved, with the ribs 

 ^neath clothed with adpressed ferruginous tomentum. It may be the Malayan 

 ^^anera diptera, Miq, Flor, Ind, Bat, i. 70. 



J5. rpERiFOLiA, Boxh, FL Lid, ii. 327 (Phanera, Bcnth. PL Jungh. 262), from the 



terminal 



116. KEPTUNXA, Lour. 



num^^^^ ""^thout prickles. Leaves hipinnate, with persistent stipules and 

 diT^^*v^^ small strap-shaped sensitive membranous leaflets. Floivers minute, 

 lo^^^ ^^^^ in dense heads on axillary peduncles, polygamous, those of the 

 ^^\ part of the head bearing only protruded flattened staminodia. Calyx 

 «^^te, campanulate, 5-toothed. Petals 6, strap-shaped, connate near the base. 

 ^ens of the perfect flowers exserted ; anthers dand-crested. Ovary stalked, 

 J. y-ovuled; style filiform, stigma club^haped. Pod coriaceous, flattened, 

 *^«me or oblong, 2-valved.— Distrib. Species 8 ; cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



entilli*'' ^^lei'acea, Lour.^, BentL in Hooh Joum. iv. 354; stems almos 

 6-lfL^ Prostrate, leaflets 16-30, sterile flowers numerous, pod oblique oblon 

 ^ J^seeded. Dah. ^- Gibs. Bomb. FL 84. Mimosa natans, -Ko.r6 Cor. i^. 

 i^w '•. ^- ^^"V. 40; FL Liul ii. 553. Desmanthus natans, nilUl] JJC. 

 stolonif''" r^5 '^^''"' ^«^- 5295; W. ^^ A. B'odr. 270. D. lacustns and 

 "^r, DC. Pi'odr. loc. cit. 



tropf^^^ West provinces, to Ceylox and MAi.ACCA.-DisTmB. Cosmopolitan in 



^teins Rfmif 1 .-I . T__ ^1 i «,,f <^«7ioT«fipf. 'hrnnpllfis. nro- 





Hu 



"'les. Pinna 



H in°^\ ^^^^oles as'eendinff, 1-1 ft. ; bracts small, orate, snbobtuse. Staminodes 

 '^«^sci'nJfP:*»P«l. yellow. Corolla i in. Fod J-l in. long, rostrate, dry, soon 



b oy the upper sutnm 



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