Tas. 6818. 
BAUHINIA varigeata. 
Native of the East Indies. 
Nat. Ord. Leguminosz.—Tribe BAUHINIER. 
Genus Bavurnta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 575.) 
Bavuinta (Pauletia) variegata; arborea, erecta, ramulis novellis calycibusque 
griseo-puberulis, foliis 9-1l-nerviis glabris profunde bifidis lobis obtusis, 
racemis brevibus, floribus 4-poll. latis breviter pedicellatis, calycis spathacei 
tubo cylindraceo spathe lanceolatw equilongo, petalis patentibus unguiculatis 
elliptico-obovatis roseis purpureo-variegatis rarius albis, antico lineis sanguineis 
flabellatim notato, staminibus 3-5, ovario gracili piloso stipite styloque graci- 
libus elongatis, legumine 1-2-pedali ensiformi curvo intus septato. 
B. variegata, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 535; DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 514; Hamilt. in 
Trans, Linn, Soe. vol. xiii. p. 496; Roxb. Fl. Ind, vol. ii. p. 319; Wall. 
Cat. No. 5795; Beddome Flor. Sylv. p. 92; Brandis For. Flor. p. 160; 
Kurz For. Flor. vol. i. p. 397; Baker in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 284. 
B. candida, Roxb, l.c. p. 318. 
PuHaneEra variegata, Benth. Pl. Jungh. p. 262. 
CHovanna-Manparv, Rheede Hort, Mail. vol. i. p. 57, t. 32. 
LT have often wondered how it was that two of the most 
conspicuous common and beautiful small trees of India, 
Bauhinia variegata and purpurea, should never now be 
seen in the larger tropical plant-houses of England; it 
cannot be that they have not been repeatedly introduced, 
for according to the Hortus Kewenusis the first of them was 
grown in England nearly 200 years ago (in 1690) by the 
Karl of Portland; and the white variety (B. candida, 
Roxb.) upwards of a century ago (in 1777) by Dr. Patrick 
Russell; whilst BD. purpurea was raised in the following 
year. Neither of them is figured in any work illustrating 
cultivated plants, British or Continental, though B. 
variegata appears to have flowered at Kew many years ago, 
for in the work quoted June and July are given as the 
flowering months. The reason for these plants being so 
little grown in our hot-houses is, no doubt, that they must 
attain some size before they flower, and that they require 
a dry season to ripen their wood, the giving of which, 
JUNE Ist, 1885. 
