292 XLVI. § CHSALPINIEH (OLIVER). | Bauhinia. 
companulate, thin, glabrous, shortly 5 deltoid-toothed. Petals 5, erect, 
exserted } in., obliquely oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, narrowed into 
the claw, beautifully purple-reticulate with a narrow veinless margin. 
Stamens 10, antheriferous, filaments glabrous ; anthers elliptic-oblong. 
Ovary and gynophore smooth, glabrous (or glandular) ; ovules inde- 
finite in 2 or more series. Legume flat, 2-valved, shortly falcate-oblong 
or subreniform, the dorsal suture broadly rounded; slender style per- 
sisting at one side of the apex; valves glabrous, transversely reticulate. 
Seeds few. 
Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Also in Namaqua-land and on the Gariep. 
Imperfectly known Species. 
B. punctata, Bolle in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 23. An unarmed shrub ; 
extremities and petioles minutely pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, orbi- 
cular, 9-nerved, truncate at base ; leaflets connate nearly throughout or 
shortly bilobate, rounded above, upper surface smooth and shining, 
lower clothed with short appressed hairs and golden-yellow spots. 
Flowers in twos or threes, terminal or leaf-opposed, on long peduncles. 
Calyx spathaceous, 2-valved. Petals rotundate, with a claw of $in. Fila- 
ments glabrous. Ovary stipitate tomentose. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Dr. Peters. 
Abstracted from the work cited. The form of the calyx-tube is not stated, nor the 
number of antheriferous stamens. 
B. Adansoniana, (Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 265. “‘ Leaves 2-fid, 
7-nerved from an ovate or subrotund base, lobes lanceolate obtuse 
pubescent. Legume linear subtorulose.” 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Adanson. 
Unknown to me. 
B. acuminata, Bruce, Trav. Abyss. App. 167, t. 18. 
This plant, the “ Farek” of Bruce, I cannot identify. The leafage, calyx and 
petals at any rate, are those of a Bauhinia, while the pistil is unlike that of any 
species known tome. B. acuminata is represented with distinctly cordate leaves, the 
leaflets connate }-§ their length, and gradually narrowed to a rather obtuse apex. 
Flowers in a short extra-axillary peduncled corymb or raceme. Calyx spathaceous. 
Petals ovate-lanceolate or oval clawed. Perfect stamens 10. 
15. BERLINTIA, Solander; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 579. 
Buds enclosed between a pair of valvate bracteoles until flowering. 
Calyx-tube short or elongate, segments 5, subequal, imbricate. Poste- 
rior petal nearly equalling the rest in length or much longer, usually 
distinctly clawed, with an entire or bilobate lamina ; lateral and anterior 
petals similar to the posterior or much smaller, diverse in form, shorter 
than or exceeding the calyx. Stamens 10, all perfect or 5 alternating 
with as many rudimentary staminodia; in the decandrous species the 
osterior stamen free from the base, the rest usually very shortly co- 
ately filaments slender, elongate, anthers oblong or elliptical, dehis- 
cing longitudinally, versatile. Ovary shortly or distinctly stipitate ; style 
