Bauhinia. | XLVII. § CHSALPINIEH (OLIVER). 291 
broadly rounded below, rounded or more rarely broadly pointed above, 
often somewhat glassy, glabrous or at first puberulous above, tawny- or 
rusty-pubescent with prominent nervures and ultimate areolate-reticu- 
late venation beneath ; petiole pubescent or tomentose, 1-2 in. Flowers 
rather small, in terminal or leaf-opposed compound tomentose racemes 
shorter than or slightly exceeding the leaves. Bracts very small, 
ovate, acute or lanceolate, caducous. Lateral branches of raceme 
usually 1—6 lines. Buds somewhat pyriform, 4 in. or less. Calyx 
5-fid, lobes ovate or deltoid, distinct or occasionally cohering. Petals 
subequal, whitish or rose, rotundate or obovate, pilose externally, 
shortly and abruptly clawed. Stamens 10, all, or nearly all, perfect, 
unequal, filaments glandular or pilose below, anthers oblong. Ovary 
stalked. Stigma capitate, sessile or subsessile. Legume varying from 
broadly oblong, 24-3 in. broad, to elongate linear-oblong, 1-14 in. 
broad, 4—1 ft. long, often irregularly constricted, apiculate, on a gyno- 
phore of 3-1 in.; valves, when mature, stoutly coriaceous, tawny- or 
rusty-tomentose, or at length glabrous, showing the obscure or more or 
less distinct, anastomosing, obliquely transverse, or toward the centre 
longitudinal, nervures of the valve. Seeds indefinite, embedded in the 
corky endocarp.—Fl. Seneg. i. 266, t. 60; B. Thonningii, Schum. Guin. 
Pl. 203; B. pyrrhocarpa, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 99 and Hb. Schimp. 
Abyss. ; B. abyssinica, Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 253; B. inermis, Hb. Schimp. 
Abyss. 712 (1839); B. tamarindacea, Delile, Voy. & Méroé, 31; Locel- 
laria bauhinioides, Welw. Apont. Phyto-geogr. No. 52. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Cape Verd, Brunner! Niger, Barter! 
Ashantee, Thonning. Abbeokuta, Irving! ; 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Dillon, Schimper! Gallabat, Schweinfurth! Sennaar, 
Cienkowski. : : : 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith! Various provinces of Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi and Rovuma, Dr. Kirk! Shire river, Dr. Meller ! 
The bark yields a tough fibre ; it is also astringent and used in medicine. _ 
The Nile Land plant differs in a proportionately narrower legume, varying from 
1-1} in. in breadth, and from a few inches to 1 ft. in length; but from an examination 
of the suite of specimens in the Kew Herbarium, I can hardly suppose this to indicate 
specific distinction. ; : sab 
Specimens, in fruit only, collected near Kouka in North Central Africa by E. Vogel, 
differing from the usual form of B. reticulata in being glabrous, the twigs and pods 
more or less glaucous or plumose, probably belong to a marked variety of this species, 
and may be the B. Benzoin of Kotschy, described from fruiting specimens only. 
(Schweinf. Rel. Kotsch. 12, t. 11.) ee 
To the same form, whether variety or distinct species, is referred the plant noticed 
by Dr. Schweinfurth (Fl. A2thiop. 3), as collected by Kotschy at Milbes, and distri- 
buted as “ B. tamarindacea, Del.?” corresponding with a Senegambian plant bearing 
the MS. name B. platysiliqua, Guillemin. I have not seen either of these. 
11. B. garipensis, /. Mey.Comm. 162. A shrub of 5—8 ft., with long 
slender, rod-like, ashen-white or farinose terete branches. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, glaucous, usually from 7-1} in. broad, }— in. long ; 
sinus at base and apex broad and shallow, 5-nerved with obscure vena- 
tion; petiole slender, 3-4 lines. Flowers usually solitary or geminate 
from obsolete axillary peduncles ; pedicels } in. or less. matt deeply 
