Tas. 6621. 
BAUHINIA corymsosa. 
Native of China. 
Nat. Ord. Legumrinosm,.—Tribe BaAvHINIER. 
Genus Bavurnta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 575.) 
Bavurnta (Phanera) corymbosa; alte scandens, inflorescentia sparse ferrugineo- 
ase excepta glaberrima, ramulis sulcatis, foliis infra medium v. ad basin fere 
-partitis, segmentis dimidiato-oblongis basi et apice rotundatis 3-4-nerviis, 
corymbis terminalibus ramulosque breves terminantibus, calycis lobis 2 tubo 
cylindraceo multo brevioribus, petalis obovato-rotundatis unguiculatis patentibus, 
marginibus crenulato-crispatis, staminibus perfectis 3 petalis subzquilongis, 
legumine lineari 6-8-pollicari $-poll. lato, 6-12-spermo, valvis coriaceis levibus. 
B. corymbosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 329,t. 70; Prodr. vol. ii. p. 515; Wall. 
Cat. 5788 (non DC. Mem. Legum. t. 70). 
B. scandens, Burm. Fl. Ind. 94 (non Linn.). 
There has been some confusion between the plant here 
described and the very closely allied B. glauca, Benth., 
from both being natives of China, and their being almost 
undistinguishable in dried specimens except these possess 
fruits. B. corymbosa was first described, and exceedingly 
well, by Roxburgh, from plants introduced from China 
into the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, and B. glauca by 
Bentham (Plant Junghuhn) from Javan specimens and from 
Martaban ones of Wallich (to which the MS. name Phanera 
glauca had been previously applied by Bentham). Subse- 
quently, in the Florula Hongkongensis (Kew Journ. Bot. 
vol.iv., p. 77), Bentham gives B. corymbosa as a Hongkong 
plant, which he afterwards in the Flora Hongkongensis 
corrected to B. glauca, having received fruiting specimens. 
Now, however, both B. corymbosa and B, glauca have been 
found in Hongkong, the latter certainly native, occurring 
in the Happy Valley and about East Point; whilst with 
regard to b. corymbosa there is no evidence of its being 
indigenous in that island, though I have seen very good 
APRIL Ist, 1882. 
