on the Ilortus Malabavicus, Part I. 495 



the tree seldom is bare of leaves; but these being old when the 

 tree flowers, they are then smooth. In the north, again, the 

 leaves fall entirely before the flowers appear ; and the new ones 

 do not expand until the flowers have almost decayed, and then, 

 being fresh, they are hairy below. On this account, I at first 

 thought that the plant which I found in the north was different 

 from that which I had formerly described in the south ; but a 

 more careful examination convinced me that there was no real 

 difference. Both the white and red varieties are equally liable 

 to this variation ; and the same is the case in another difference 

 that occurs in this species : some flowers, between the five fertile 

 stamina, which each contains, have an equal number of minute 

 barren filaments, alternating with those which are fertile : others 

 want these appendages. 



Mandaru seems to be the generic name for the Bauhinias in 

 the languages of Kaerulu, both sacred and vulgar, which in the 

 greater number of plants do not agree. The names however 

 used by the Brahmans of Malabar, according to Rheede, are 

 generally the same, or nearly so, with those given in the Hindwi 

 dialect, which are commonly mere corruptions from the Sans- 

 crita, and are probably only those used by the Brahmans in 

 common conversation, and not such as are used in their scien- 

 tific works, which are almost all written in the last-mentioned 

 dialect. The generic name for the Bauhinias, which I heard 

 used in Carnata, was Canchala, evidently the same with Can- 

 chana the Hindwi, or Canchun the Bengalese name used in the 

 north, and preserved in Canschena Pou of Rheede (p. 63.) as a 

 specific name, Pou being the corruption for Phula (Flos, Flower), 

 usual in Malabar. These circumstances being premised, I shall 

 give a description of this species, comprehending both B. vark- 

 gafa and B. alba, such as appears to me entirely applicable to 



both. 



3s? Bauhinia 



