Tab. 7866. 



BAUHINIA ACUMINATA. 

 Native of tropical Asia. 



Nat. Ord. Leguminosjs. — BAtrmNisa. 

 G-enus Bauhinia, Linn. ; {Benth. & RooTc.f. Oen. Plant, vol. i. p. 675). 



Bauijinia (Paaletia) acuminata; frutex v. arbor parva, S-lO-pedalie, ramis 

 patentibus, foliis bifariis 3-5 poll. Jongis ellipticis supra medium bifidis 

 lobis obtusis acutisve 7-ll-nervii8 nervo medio apice eicurrente basi 

 rotundatia v. cordatis supra Isete viridibus glaberrimis subtus primiim 

 pubeecentibus, petiolo 3-4 poll, longo apice incrassato, stipulis anguste 

 semisagittatiB, racemis breviter pedunculatis extra- axillaribus terminali- 

 busve paucifloris, pedicellis ^-| poll, longis bibracteatis et bibracteolatig, 

 floribus inodoris caljce pollicari spathaceo viridi longe rostrato, rostro 

 pubescente apice penicillato, petalis calyci aequilongis oblongis albia, 

 staminibus 10, filamentis alternis brevioribnf, antheris aeqaalibus, ovario 

 angnsto piloso longe stipitato, stylo J poll, longo incurvo, legumine 

 stipitato 4f-6 poll, longo lineari-oblongo piano margine 3-caiinato 8-12- 

 spermo, aeminibus turgide ellipsoideis brunneis nitidis. 



B. acuminata, Linn. 8p. PI. p. 375. Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 324. Wight 

 et Arn. Fredr. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or. p. 295. DG. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 513. 

 Baker in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 276. Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. vol. i. 

 p. 396. Brandts, For. Flor. N. W. & Gentr. Ind. p. 169. Miqtul, Fl. Ned. 

 Ind. vol. i. Para I. p. 74. Semsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. (1S86) 

 p. 212. 



B. Candida, Ait. Sort. Xetv. ed. 1, vol. ii. p. 49 ; ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 23 (non 

 Willd.). Velutta mandaru, Rheede Eort. Malah. vol. i. p. 61, t. 34. 

 Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. liii. p. 497. 



As is the case with raany fine exotic plants cultivated 

 more than a century ago in our tropical houses, and 

 flowering there, Bauhinia acuminata has never been 

 figured in any work since the publication of Rheede' s 

 "Hortus Malabaricus," that is since 1678. According to 

 Aiton's " Hortus Kewensis " (1789), it was introduced from 

 India into England by Dr. Francis Russell, F.R.S., and 

 flowered at Kew in the mouths of May and June. In 

 recent times it has been an occupant for many years of 

 the Palm House in the Royal Gardens, but was never 

 known to flower till October of last year. It is a 

 plant of wide Asiatic distribution, being common in India 

 from the lower Himalaya southward, and found in the 

 Malay Peninsula, Burma, and China. It is not, however, 



November 1st, 1902. 



