Tas. 5560. 
BAUHINIA tomentosa; var. glabra. 
Downy Bauhinia ; glabrous var. 
Nat. Ord. Legumtnos#.—D1apetpx1a DEcANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus brevis v. elongatus, limbus ante anthesin apice 
clausus v. contractus, per anthesin varie fissus. Petala 5, parum ineequalia, 
imbricata, summo intimo. Stamina 10 v. pauciora, libera v. breviter con- 
nata; anthere versatiles, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium sepissime 
stipitatum; stylus brevis v. elongatus. Legumen oblongum v. lineare, 
rectum v. obliquum, indehiscens v. 2-valve, intus continuum v. septatum. 
Semina compressa, albuminosa; cotyledones plane; radicula brevis.— 
Arbores v. frutices erecte v. scandentes, interdum cirrhifere. Folia sim- 
plicia, 2-loba v. 2-foliolata. Flores racemosi, corymbosi v. paniculati. 
Bavutnta tomentosa; fruticosa, inermis, pubescenti-tomentosa v. glabrata, 
foliis basi cordatis rotundatis v. truncatis ad medium 2-lobis, lobis 
obtusis 3-nerviis, pedunculis 1-2-floris, calyce spathaceo tubo brevi, 
petalis flavis obovatis v. obcordatis, staminibus 10, fertilibus fere li- 
beris, ovario stipitato, legumine tenui plano lineari basin versus sensim 
angustato venoso acuto. 
Bavurnta tomentosa. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 536. De Cand. Prod. v.2. p. 514. 
Burm. Zeyl. p. 44. t. 18. Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. v. 2. p. 275. 
Var. glabrata ; tota tenuiter pubescens v. glabrata. 
This handsome shrub was introduced to the Royal Gar- 
dens, Kew, by M. Monteiro, who sent seeds in 1860 from 
Bembe, in Benguela, the plants from which fiowered in our 
stoves in November of last year. The species itself (of which 
this is rather a glabrous form) is a native of Ceylon, Malabar, 
and other parts of India; it is also commonly cultivated 
in the tropics of both the old and new worlds. In Africa, it 
is also found in Natal; by Kirk at Senna, during Living- 
stone’s late expedition; and in the interior of Dammara 
Land, by Baines and Chapman. 
Descr. A slender shrub in our stoves, four to five feet high, 
with long, rather pendulous branches, the branchlets, pe- 
tioles, under surface of the leaves, and inflorescence glabrous 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1866. 
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