Tas. 6086. 
BAUHINIA wnaratensis. © 
Native of Natal. 
Nat. Ord. Lecumimosm.—Tribe BAUHINIES. 
Genus Bavuinia, Lina. ; (Benth. §& Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 575). 
Baunita (Pauletia) natalensis ; frutex inermis, erectus, glaberrimus, ramulis 
gracilibus, foliis parvis gracile petiolatis, foliolis 2 liberis oblique 
oblongis v. obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis, basi obtusis, pedunculis 
1-2-floris oppositifoliis gracilibus, stipulis setiformibus, floribus 13. poll. 
diam. erectis albis, calyce spathaceo late cymbiformi apiculato, petalis 
obovatis apice rotundatis, staminibus 5 longioribus filamentis 2 basin 
versus calearatis, 5 duplo minoribus antheris parvis, ovarii stipite libero, 
stylo elongato, stigmate capitato, legumine plano acinaciformi acuminato 
glaberrimo tenuiter venoso, ‘basin versus sensim angustato, margine 
inferiore plano. 
Bavutnia natalensis, Oliv. Mss. in Herb. Kew. 
My first knowledge of this elegant little shrub was derived 
from specimens collected in Natal by Mr. Moodie, and com- 
municated by Mr. McKen, the late energetic Curator of the 
D’Urban Botanic Gardens, in 1869. These were followed 
by pods with ripe seeds in 1870, from which the plant here 
figured was raised, and which flowered for the first time in 
September last. It is closely allied to the African and Indian 
B. tomentosa, Linn. (Tab. nost. 5560) and especially to a 
nearly glabrous and small-leaved variety of that plant from 
Port Natal, but the leaflets are perfectly free, the flowers much 
smaller and the stamens quite different. 
Descr. A small, glabrous, slender, leafy bush. Branchlets 
nearly straight, slender. Leaves alternate, somewhat, dis- 
tichous ; petiole very slender, quarter to a half inch long, 
ending in a subulate point between the leaflets, swollen at 
the base ; leaflets one inch long, quite free, obliquely obovate, 
or subovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, as also at the base on 
the outer side, dark green, rather paler beneath ; midrib and 
few nerves very slender ; stipules subulate. Peduncles \eaf- 
Opposed, 1~2-flowered, with two minute setaceous bracts 
MARcH Ist, 1874, 
