P 
_ bearing; calyx-limb spreading, its lo 
_ two, fertile, exserted ; staminodia 5, spathulate, three broader than the 
Bauhinia.] LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 275 
’' LXXV. BAUHINIA, Plum. 
Calyx-tube cylindrical or campanulate; limb 5-parted, deciduous or 
persistent, its segments separate or cohering in a reflexed, strap-shaped 
lobe. Petals 5, clawed, subunequal, variously inserted. Stamens 10, 
monadelphous or free, exserted, either all fertile or several, (5—7-9) 
sterile; filaments filiform; anthers incumbent, slitting. Ovary stipi- 
tate, several or many-ovuled; style curved. Legume stipitate, com- 
pressed, one or several-seeded. Endl. Gen. 6790. DC. Prod. 2, p. 513. 
Lam. Ill. t. 329, also Casparea, Phanera, and Schnella, Auct. 
Trees, shrubs, or twining suffrutices, natives of the tropics generally, a few strag- 
gling into the temperate zone. Leaves formed of two partially connate or nearly en- 
tirely confluent leaflets, resembling a bilobed leaf. Flowers racemose. Though 
differing much in floral characters, chiefly of the calyx and stamens, these plants 
form so truly natural an assemblage, agreeing in general habit and in their very 
peculiar foliage, that it seems inexpedient to break up the genus, as has been pro- 
posed. If it should be broken up, our three S. African species should be referred to 
three different genera. The name is in honour of the brothers Bauhin, famous 
botanists of the fifteenth century, whose relationship is fancifully commemorated in 
the connate leaves of these plants. 
, ANALYSIS OF pete bey Bas SPECIES. Cas wil pruned 
Calyx-limb spathaceous, weet stam. 10; | ts el (1) tomentosa. 
Climbing ; calyx-limb 5-parted, spreading ; stamens 2-3 ; 
leaves deeply bilobed _... at = ies ... (2) Burkeana. 
A rigid shrub ; calyx campanulate, §-fid; stam, 10 ; leaves G3) : , 
emarginate ; unc. one-flowered ae oe a32 3) Garipensis. 
A Rn Ohannoka i lice tna hs, pubs Comettad, 4) Buiter 
1. B. (Pauletia) tomentosa (Linn. Spec. 536) ; fruticose, leaves 
rounded at base, their underside, the twigs, petioles, peduncles, bracts, 
and calyx thinly pubescent ; leaflets oval, obtuse, 3-nerved, concrete to 
or beyond the middle; peduncles 1-3-flowered ; caly -limb spathace- 
ous, reflexed ; stamens 10, fertile, unequal, DC. | rod. 2, p- 54 
‘Has. Near Port Natal, 7. Williamson! (Herb. D.) __ Hic f 
I venture to refer to this species a in Herb. D., although 
the pubescence is so very thin and minute as not to” obvious without a lens. Still, 
the aspect, the foliage, and flower are those of B. tomentosa, which species varies in 
pubescence. oo 
2. B. (Phanera) Burkeana (Benth. !); suffruticose, climbing ; leaves 
deeply reniform at base, netted-veined beneath, glabrous; leaflets ob- 
liquely-elliptical, 3-nerved, obtuse, concrete for a short distance above the 
base; peduncles tomentose, many-flowered, some abortive and tendril- 
bes separate, lanceolate ; stamens 
rest ; y glabrous, stipitate. Benth. ! Pl. Jungh. p. 62. 
_ Has. Mooi River, Transvaal, Burke § Zeyher ! Sanderson ! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
__A slender climber, several feet long, the young parts thinly villoso-pubescent. — 
_ Stems angular. Leaves 3-4 inches broad ; each leaflet 14-2 inches long, 2~2} inches — 
» broad, nerves branching. Flowers small ; calyx-lobes } inch long ; petals not much 
longer, or uncial, striate, the vexillum with a very prominent, ¢ 
Legume not seen. , ‘ oc Gale 
3. B. (Adenolobus) Garipensis (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 
shrubby, divaricately-branched, unarmed; leaves (small) 
date at base, emarginate, glabrous, veinless, coriac 
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