Tab. 7814. 



BAUHINIA YUNNANENSIS. 

 Native of China. 



Nat. Ord. LiGDMiNOSiE. — Tribe BAuniNiEiB. 

 Genus Bauhinia, Linn. ; {Benth. & Hook.f. Oen. Plant, vol. i. p. 575.) 



Bauiiinia (Phanera) yunnanensis \ frntex scandens, cirrhifera, glaberriina, 

 glauca, ramis raraulisque gracilibus teretiljiis, cirrhis complanatis, foliis 

 parvis coriaceis bipartitis basi oordatia siau angusto acuto, segmentia 

 oblique elUpticis 1^ poll, lonsris basi et apice rotandatia 3-4 uerviig 

 pallide viridibus, petiolo gracili, racemiM oppositifoliis elongatis laxe 

 multifloris pendulis, pedicellis 2-3-pollicaribu8, bracteia minntia caduciB, 

 calycis tubo 5-5 poll, longo cylmdraceo, limbo tube Bubasqoilongo 

 bipartito s^gmentis cymbiformibus, petalis spathulatis ad } poll, longia 

 pallide roseis apicibus lanuginosie 3 superioribus sanguineo-striatia, 

 staminibus 3 perfectis petalis paullo longioribus, filamentis arcuatis 

 kertnesinis, antheris lineari-oblongisciliatis, iraperfect.ia multo brevioribua 

 ovario glabro stipitato, legumine anguste lineari 6 poll, longo leviter 

 arcaato polysperma, valvis planis rugulosis. 



B. yunnanensis, Franch. PI. Delav. 1890, p. 190. 



The subject of this plate is a very graceful green- 

 house climber, a native of Western China, where it 

 was discovered by the Abbe Delavay on wooded hills 

 of Lokoshan, in the districts of Tapin-tze, in Yun- 

 nan ; and on mountains south-west of Mengtze, in the 

 same province, at an altitude of six thousand feet, by 

 Dr. Henry. A plant of it in the Temperate House of 

 the Royal Gardens, Kew, receiv^ed in 1893 from the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens of Edinbugh, flourishes and flowers 

 freely, but the specimen here figured was sent from the 

 Cambridge Botanical Gardens, where, Mr. Lynch informs 

 me, it rambles over the roof of a conservatory fifteen feet 

 above the ground, flowering in July. 



Descr, — A climbing, glabrous, glaucous shrub. Stem and 

 branches very slender, terete ; tendrils flattened. Leaves 

 small, coriaceous, bipartite, pale green; segments an inch 

 and a half long, obliquely elliptic, three- to four-nerved, 

 sinus narrow, acute, base and apex rounded ; petiole an 

 inch to an inch and a half long, slender, swollen at the 

 base. Racemes terminal and leaf-opposed, pendulous, four 

 to six inches long, many-flowered ; bracts minute, cadu- 



January Ut, 1902. 



