Tas. 7494, 
BAUHINIA Gatpint. 
Native of the Transvaal. 
Nat. Ord. Legumrmosr“2.—Tribe Bavainieg. 
Genus Bavainia, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 575.) 
Bavurnta (Phanera) Galpini; frutex subscandens fere glaberrimus, ramulis 
rufo-puberulis, foliis petiolatis orbicularibus v. transverse late oblongis 
breviter 2-lobis, 7-nerviis, basi rotundatis v. truncatis, lobis rotundatis, 
subtus glabris puberulisve, petiolo lamina § v. } breviore, stipulis parvis 
subulatis, racemis terminalibus et oppositifoliis 6-10-floris, rachi pedun- 
culis calycibusque ferrugineo-puberulis, bracteis parvis subulatis, calycis 
tubo subpollicari recto, limbo tubo subzequilongo spathaceo, petalis 1-14 
poll. longis coccineis, limbo orbiculari cuspidato ungue zquilongo, 
staminibus 3 perfectis ceteris brevibus subulatis, antheris flavis, ovario 
pubescente, stigmate capitellato, legumine 3-5-poll. longo lineari-oblongo 
compresso basi attenuato apice decurvo rostrato dorso alte costato, 
seminibus oblongis. 
B. Galpini, NV. £. Br. in Gard. Chron. (1891) vol. i. p. 728. Oliverin Hook. Ic. 
Fi, t. 1994. 
According to a note accompanying dried specimens in 
the Kew Herbarium, Bauhinia Galpint was discovered by 
Mr. W. Nelson at Dorn Spruit Spelunken, under the 
tropic of Capricorn, in 1880. Specimens have since been 
received from other localities in the Transvaal, as Baber- 
ton, the De Kaap Valley, &c., by Messrs. Thorncroft, 
Wood, &c.; and both seeds and dried- specimens from 
Mrs. K. Saunders of Torgaati, Natal, where the plant is 
cultivated. It advances far into the tropic, Mr. Last 
having found it in the Makua country, Mozambique. At 
Baberton it appears to be a common shrub, clothing the 
hills in great masses five to ten feet high, conspicuous by 
the bright scarlet flowers. ; 
In the Royal Gardens it has attained a height of eight 
feet in the Succulent House, where it flowered for the first 
time in October, 1895. i 
Descr.—A half climbing shrub, five to ten feet high ; bark 
brown, of young shoots rusty-puberulous. Leaves petio- 
late, one to three inches long, orbicular or transversely 
broadly oblong, broadly 2-lobed from one-fifth to one-half 
their length, 7-nerved, base rounded or truncate, pale 
SerremBER Ist, 1899, 
