288 XLVII. § CHSALPINIEZ (OLIVER). | Bauhinia, 
rotundate, narrowed into the claw, not twice as long as the calyx; 
callus of posterior petal broader and much more rounded in profile than 
in B. cissoides. Legume (only seen immature) apparently as in the 
foregoing though probably longer in proportion to its breadth. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Flowers at length blood-red. 
Perhaps the same plant from the province Huilla. 
4. B. Kirkii, Oliv. Climber; rusty- or cinnamon-tomentose. 
Leaves submembranous, about 5 in. broad by 4 in. long, with a deeply 
cordate base, the basal sinus extending about } towards the shallow 
broadly bilobed apical sinus; leaflets connate over 2 in. (in our only 
specimen), broadly rounded above and below, glabrous and reticulate 
above, softly pilose-tomentose beneath; petiole 2 in. Flowers showy 
yellow on patent or recurved leaf-opposed peduncles, with the 4-1 in. 
pedicels and calyx outside tomentose. Bracts ovate acute, 1—2 lines. 
Calyx-tube campanulate, shorter than the nearly equally 5-lobed 
limb, lobes at length free, 14 to twice as long as the tube, glabrous 
within, the 2 posterior lobes slightly carinate. Petals considerably 
exceeding the calyx, obovate, gradually narrowed to the claw, pilose 
externally, reticulate, with divergent venation ; posterior petal with 
a bifid basal callus. Stamens unequal, 2 perfect at length much 
longer than the rest, with linear-subulate or filiform glabrous fila- 
ments incurved above and oblong glabrous anthers dehiscing on the 
inner face; anthers of 8 shorter stamens variously deformed or effete ; 
2 intermediate stamens with dilated filaments. Gynophore equalling 
or exceeding the ovary, which is glabrous, excepting on the suture, 
and biovulate. Legume not seen. 
South Central. Highlands of Batoka, Dr. Kirk! 
Dr. Kirk states that the “large astringent ’’ roots and the seeds are eaten by the 
natives, who call the plant ‘“‘ Marama, the beans Litamane.” 
Not known from elsewhere, though nearly allied to B. Burkeana, Benth., a Cape 
species, as well as to B. cissoides, Welw. 
5. B. Petersiana, Bolle in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 24. Extremities 
terete, pubescent or puberulous. Leaves 24—3 (4) in. broad, firmly 
membranous, broadly bifid, broadly cordate at the base, 7-nerved ; 
leaflets connate $-2 in., rounded at each end, glabrous above, slightly 
pubescent at least on the nervures or glabrescent beneath, with a 
glandular or biglandular disk at the insertion of the petiole which is 
4—j in. long. Corymbs few- or several-flowered, terminal or on short 
lateral shoots; pedicels very short. Calyx shortly tawny-tomentose, 
tube cylindrical suleate 3-14 in. long, limb spathaceous, equalling the 
tube, the lobes occasionally partially separating. Petals subequal, 
linear-oblanceolate, narrowed to the pilose or pubescent claw, penni- 
veined with a conspicuous midrib, 14-23 in. long. Perfect stamens dD, 
unequal, filaments slender elongate pilose below, anthers linear affixed 
1-1 from the base; 5 shorter stamens free or partially connate, with 
reduced or effete anthers. Gynophore elongate, 3-14 in. Ovules 
10-12. Style slender; stigma capitate. Legume not observed. 
