to which parts of the tree are put; to which may be added 
that it yields (like other members of the genus) the gum 
known as Sem or Semla génd, which has the properties 
of cherry gum, as stated in Dr. Watt’s invaluable 
Dictionary of the Economic Products of India, a work 
which had not appeared when the aforesaid account for 
this Magazine was drawn up. I have now to add a curious 
fact in relation to the distribution of B. variegata, which 
is, that though common in a wild state in the jungles of 
India from the Indus river to Burma, ascending to 4000 it., 
and extending to Malabar, it is not recorded as a native 
of Ceylon. ‘his is the more remarkable, if it is true (see 
Watt, l.c.) that it is often represented in Budhist: 
sculptures, a statement that must, however, be checked 
by the fact that specific differences, especially in such a 
genus as Bauhinia, may be supposed to have eluded the 
sculptor’s eye, and that very different Bauhinias would 
serve his purpose equally well. The absence of B. variegata 
in Ceylon is not, however, an isolated fact in the Flora 
of that Island; for of this large representative Indian 
genus (embracing 87 species) only two,* B. tomentosa, 
L. and racemosa, Lam., are recorded by Trimen as certainly 
indigenous in it, and one other, the common Asiatic and 
Malayan B. anguina, as doubtfully native. 
B. variegata var. candida was raised from seed received 
in 1883 from the Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart Grant 
Duff, who, when Governor of Madras, sent many interest- 
ing plants and other seeds to Kew. It flowered in March 
of 7 present year, and the flowers were very frequent.— 
d. DE 
Fig. 1, Stamen and pistil; 2 and 3, anthers, all enlarged; 4, reduced fig. 
of whole plant as grown in the Palm House, Kew. 
* In the Flora 
Ceylon, on the a 
Walker, 
of British India B. purpurea is stated to be a neste i 
uthority of a specimen in Herb. Kew from the late Col. 
which is, however, most probably from a garden plant. 
