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tube. Legume pulpy, indehiscent. — A tree ; leaves abruptly pinnate ; flowers racemose, 

 variegated. 



184*. T. indica, L. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 13. — T. occidental, G. : the West-Indian 

 form, with the legume 4-1 -seeded. — A high tree; leaflets obloug, retuse or rounded at the 

 top, deciduous, 18-10-jugal. — Hab. Naturalised in all the West Indian islands !, all. coll. ; 

 [introduced from the East Indies, and cultivated in all tropical countries]. 



66. HYMENS, L. 



Calyx-tube lignescent, bracteolate : limb 4-5-partite, deciduous. Petals 5, inserted with 

 the stamens into the summit of the calyx-tube. Stamens 10. Legume woody, indehiscent. — 

 Resinous trees ; leaves bifoliolate ; flowers corymbose. 



185. H. Courbaril, L. Leaflets leathery, polished, unequal-sided, obliquely oblong- 

 lanceolate ; flowers pedicellate, white ; ovary stipitate ; legume few-seeded, rough with mi- 

 nute warts. — Desc. 11. 5. t. 359. — A high tree ; petals nearly equal, as long as the calyx- 

 segments ; legume filled with mealy pulp. — Hab. Jamaica!, Pd. ; Antigua!, WullschL; 

 Dominica!, Imr.; S.Lucia!, Anders.; [Cuba; Panama! to Guiana!]. 



67. CASPAREA, Kth. 



Calyx-tube cylindrical : limb ligulate-spathaceous, 5-dentate. Petals 5, inserted with 

 the stameus into the summit of the calyx-tube. Stamens diadelphous, 1 distinct, fertile, 9 

 connected, reduced, sterile. Ovary stipitate : gynophore free from the calyx : stigma capi- 

 tate. Legume compressed, bivalved. — Woody plants ; leaflets 2, usually united by their 

 inner margins into a bilobed leaf ; flowers in terminal racemes. 



1 86. C. porrecta, Kth. Shrubby ; leaves cordate-roundish or ovate, 9-7-nerved, bilobed 

 to one-half or one-third (rarely entire), puberulous on the nerves beneath : lobes deltoid, with 

 a bluntish point, parallel ; petals lanceolate, half as long as the fertile stamen and the pistil. — 

 Jacq. H. Schoenbr. t. 100. — Bauhinia, Sw. — 6'-15' high ; leaves variable, glaucescent be- 

 neath, 4"-l" diam. ; petals variegated with rosy or white, 8'" long ; legume flat-compressed, 

 6"-2"long, 10-1-seeded. — Hab. Jamaica!, all. coll., common in the lower hills ; [Haiti]. 



187. C. aurita, Gr. Shrubby; leaves subcordate-oblong, 9-7-nerved, bilobed to two- 

 thirds, puberulous on the nerves beneath : lobes oblong-lanceolate, acuminate with a bluntish 

 point, parallel ; petals lanceolate, more than twice shorter than the fertile stamen and the 

 pistil.— -MM. Ie. t. 61. — Bauhinia, Ait.— 10'-20' high; leaves 2"-l"long; petals white, 

 6'" long; legume 2"-l" long, 4-1-seeded. — Hab. Jamaica {Mill.) ; [Haiti !]. 



68. BAUHINIA, L., Vog. 



Calyx-tube cylindrical: limb ligulate-spathaceous, rarely 5-partite. Petals 5, inserted 

 with the stamens into the summit of the calyx-tube. Stamens 10, monadelphous at the 

 base, or distinct, all fertile or partly sterile. Ovary stipitate : gynophore free from the calyx : 

 stigma infundibular-lamellate or conical. Legume bivalved or indehiscent. — Woody plants ; 

 leaflets of Casparea ; racemes or single flowers opposite to the leaves. 



The small -flowered Bauhinia, with a minute conical stigma, short anthers, and the calyx- 

 limb usually 5-dentate in the bud, form a distinct Section, to which the name of Paulletia 

 may remain : of these B. microphylla, Vog., grows in Cuba, and a new species is cultivated 

 in Jamaica. 



188. B. megalandra, Gr. (n.sp.). Unarmed ; branches glabrescent ; leaves subcordate- 

 roundish, bilobed to one-third, 9-nerved, glabrous, with the nerves glabrescent beneath : lobes 

 broadly ovate, rounded-blunt, parallel ; flowers solitary, or the uppermost racemose ; calyx 

 long, externally rusty-tomeutose, spathaceous, with the cohering summit entire : limb nearly 

 as long as the linear glabrous petals and as the distinct stamens ; anthers 10, elongated- 

 linear ; stigma infundibular-lamellate, ovate-oblong, unilateral. — Allied to B. multinervia, 

 Kth., which is said to have 11-nerved leaves, still larger flowers, and a bilamellate stigma. — 

 A tree; leaves 5"-3£" diam. : petiole 1 "-&'" long; flowers 3"-4" long, mostly opposite to 

 the leaves : pedicels thickish, 4"'-6'" long j calyx obloug-eyliudrical, slightly curved, 6'" diam. 



