290 XLVII. § CHSALPINIEH (OLIVER). | Bauhinia. 
lobes at length sometimes partially free. Petals linear-oval, narrowed 
to each end, penniveined trom a broad obscure midrib. Stamens 10, 
all perfect; filaments slender with a hairy tuft on the inner side at the 
base; anthers oblong, thinly pilose. Ovules 7-10-12. Style much 
shorter than the ovary, or stigma subsessile. Legume several-seeded, 
linear, coriaceous, but slightly turgid, valves faintly depressed between 
the seeds when dry, often curved or falcate, apiculate, narrowed at the 
base into a gynophore of 4-3 in., 14-34 in. long, 4-4 in. broad. Seeds 
shining, compressed, albuminous; cotyledons flat.—B. parvifolia, 
Hochst. in Hb. Nub. Kotsch.; Fielding et Gardner, Sert. Pl. t. x. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Gambia, Whitfield! Borgu (ina town 
only), Barter ! 
North Central. Kouka, 1. Vogel! 
Nile Land. Nubia, Sennaar, Kotschy! and others. Abyssinia, Bahr-el-Abiad, 
(Schweinf. et Asch. Hnum.). 
With this species Dr. Schweinfurth identifies Senegambian specimens distributed 
under the unpublished name of B. divaricata, Guillemin. 
9. B. tomentosa, L.; DC. Prod. ii. 514. Shrub with slender pu- 
bescent or puberulous often pendulous branches. Leaves membranous, 
usually 13-8 in. broad, in some forms considerably smaller, in others 
larger, base cordate with a broad shallow sinus or truncate, usually 
7-nerved, with a bilobed glandular disk at the insertion of the petiole ; 
leaflets rounded above and below, connate $~—2 their length, glabrous 
above, paler or somewhat glaucous minutely tomentose pubescent or 
glabrate beneath ; petiole usually $—-1 in. Stipules subulate. Flowers 
showy yellow, in few-Howered terminal corymbs or on 1—2-flowered 
leaf-opposed peduncles. Calyx-tube short funnel-shaped } in. long or 
less, limb spathaceous, exceeding the tube. Petals 1-24 in. long, 
obovate or phesrdate, subsessile or shortly clawed, venation divergent 
not prominent. Stamens 10, unequal, all antheriferous, filaments fili- 
form. Gynophore short, rarely exceeding 1-4 in. Style elongate; 
stigma capitate. Legumes coriaceous, much compressed or flat, often 
6—12-seeded, broadly linear, acuminate or cuspidate, often narrowed 
at the base—Bot. Mag. 5560 (var. glabrata); B. Mucéra, Bolle in 
Peter’s Mossamb. Bot. 22; Alvesia bauhinioides, Welw. Apont. Phyto- 
geogr. No. 47. 
Lower Guinea. Mr. Monteiro! Pungo And L Gol Alto, 
Phage chelate go Andongo, Loanda, and Golungo 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! 
Also in Natal and in Tropical Asia. 
Dr. Welwitsch collected on the Sugar-loaf Mountain, Sierra Leone, a specimen of 
B. acuminata (L.), Wt. and Arn., an Indian species; most likely introduced. It 
differs from B. tomentosa in its pointed leaflets, and smaller flowers with oval or ob- 
lanceolate penniveined petals. 
10. B. articulata, DC. Prod. ii. 515. A spreading tree ; extremi- 
ties unarmed, rusty-tomentose or pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, usually 
3-5 in. broad, 11- or 9-veined, with a conspicuous bilobed gland when 
dry at the broadly cordate base; leaflets connate, 3-4 of their length, 
