Bauhinia. | XLVII. § CHSALPINIEEH (OLIVER). 289 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, near Senna, Dr. Peters! Foot of Moramballa, 
Dr. Kirk! Manganya hills, Waller / 
The flowers Bolle describes as red; Dr. Kirk as white. A good coloured drawing 
accompanies Dr. Kirk’s specimens. 
6. B. macrantha, (liv. sp. nov. Shrub of 4-5 ft., extremities 
ee Leaves thinly coriaceous, the upper about 14 in. 
road, slightly cordate at base; leatlets obliquely ovate or ovate-oblong, 
rounded above and below, connate 4 or } their length, each 3-nerved, 
sparsely pubescent and reticulate above, paler and pubescent beneath ; 
petioles very short tomentose. Flowers very large, 2 or 3 together on 
short terminal or leaf-opposed peduncles; bracts short, linear-subulate. 
Calyx shortly tomentose, tube narrowly cylindrical, sulcate, 1 to nearly 
2 in. long, limb spathaceous ovate, tipped by the free subulate apices 
of the lobes. Petals ample, 14-24 in. long, obovate cordate at the base 
or abruptly narrowed into the short claw, penniveined from a prominent 
deliquescent midrib. Perfect stamens 4—5 with elongate slender fila- 
ments thinly pilose below and linear straight glabrous anthers; abor- 
tive stamens much shorter, several connate in a short phalange. Ovary 
many-ovuled on a gynophore of 1 in. more or less; style slender, 
stigma capitate. Legume not seen. 
South Central. Desert by Lake Ngami, McCabe! 
7. B. Bowkeri, Harv. Fl. Capensis, ii. 596. Shrub or small tree, 
unarmed; extremities puberulous or early glabrate. Leaves $—14 in. 
long, 3-1} in. broad, slightly cordate or truncate at base, leaflets 
broadly obliquely oblong ovate- or obovate-oblong, rounded above and 
below, connate from 1 or 2 lines to half their length, glabrous or 
sparsely pubescent and reticulate above, paler or glaucous pubescent 
or glabrate beneath. Flowers rather large, white, terminal and from 
the upper axils, usually in few-flowered leafy corymbs ; pedicels very 
short. Calyx puberulous or shortly tomentose, tube cylindrical elon- 
gate sulcate, limb spathaceous, ?—-1} in. long, shorter than or nearly 
equalling the tube. Petals 1}—-2 in., oblanceolate, narrowed into the 
claw, with a strong midrib and conspicuously penniveined. Stamens 
10, all perfect, unequal; filaments filiform. Ovary on a long gyno- 
phore, narrowed above into the slender pubescent style; stigma capi- 
tate. Legume not seen. 
South Central. Chapman and Baines ! 
Found also in Caffraria. 
8. B. rufescens, Lam.; DC. Prod. ii. 514. Much and divaricately 
branched shrub or small tree; extremities minutely puberulous or 
glabrous. Leaves very small, usually under 1 in. in diameter, rather 
coriaceous; leaflets free nearly or quite from the base, obliquely and 
broadly oblong or more or less ovate or obovate, rounded at each end, 
3-nerved, minutely setulose-puberulous or glabrate and reticulate be- 
neath; petiole 2 lines to 4in. Flowers small, white, fragrant, in 
terminal racemes or corymbs; pedicels 4—} in. Calyx-tube cam- 
panulate, 2 lines long, limb spathaceous, twice as long as the tube, the 
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