Tas. 7812. 
BAUHINIA VARIEGATA, var. Candida, 
Native of Tropical Asia. 
Nat. Ord. Lecumrnos#. Tribe Bavurnrer. 
Genus Bavuinta, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 575.) 
Bavurnta (Phanera), variegata; Linn. Sp. Pl. 375; DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 
574. Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 496. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 
31; Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 319. Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or. p. 
296. Wali. Cat. n. 595. Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. p. 64. Kurz For. Fl. 
Brit, Burm, vol. i. p, 397. Brand For. Fl. N.W. Ind. p. 161. Aitchis. 
Cat. Panjab Pl, p. 53. Beddome, Forest. Man. 8. Ind. p. xciti. Gamble 
Man. Ind. Tims. p. 140. Watt, Dict. Econom. Prodr. Ind. vol. i. p. 425. 
Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 284.—Tas. nostR. 6818. 
B. purpurea, Wall, Cat. n. 5795 (in part.) 
PuaneERa variegata, Benth. Pl. Jungh. p. 262, 
Choromna Mandaru, Rheede Hort. Mal. vol. i. p. 57, t. 32. 
Var. candida, floribus albis petalo antico viridi pallido suffuso. Ham. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 496 (excl. cit. Willd. & Ait.) ; Wight & Arn. 
Fil. Penins. Ind. Or. p. 296. 
B. candida, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p.31; Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 318 (excl. cit. Willd.), 
Wall. Cat. n. 5796, 
At t. 6818 of this work is figured one of the brightly 
coloured varieties of this beautiful plant, and between that 
and even darker purple-flowered, and the one here given 
there are innumerable gradations of colour. Whether, 
however, these sports of colour are found in the native 
State of the plant is doubtful, for the species is even more 
frequently met with in a cultivated than in a native state. 
Roxburgh, who first described the white variety as a 
Species, gives no other habitat than gardens in India; he, 
however, supposed it to be the B. candida of Willdenow, 
which is a variety of the closely allied and almost equally 
common B. purpurea, Linn. ; an error into which Hamilton, 
who was the first to describe it as a variety of B. variegata, 
also fell, | 
Under Plate 6818 I have given some account of the 
introduction of B. variegata into England, and of the uses 
Sertemser Isr, 1893. 
