on the Ilortus Malabaricut, Part I. 497 



Varietas /3 petalis quatuor albidis, quinto intits rlavo et viridi va- 

 riegate 



Bauhinia Candida. Willd. Sp. PL ii. 510. Ifort. Keu\ iii. 23. 

 liort. Bene. 31. 



Chovanna Mandaru secuxda, />. 5$. Jig, 33. 

 The Bauhinia purpurea of authors. 

 So far as I have heard, it is most usually called by the same 

 names with the B. variegata, from which indeed it differs but 

 little ; and it is equally entitled to the name variegata, as it has 

 four purple petals, and the fifth finely variegated with white. 

 Although the plant is well known, I shall note the difference! 

 between it and the description of the B. variegata. 



Rami teretes. Folia apicem versus, lobis divergentibus, dilatata. 

 Petiolus brevissimus. Stipulce persistentes. PcdicttU api- 

 cem versus articulati. Flores parum odorati. Calyx cori- 

 aceus, reflexus, quinque-carinatus, latere dehiscens, apice 

 integer. Petala longius unguiculata, cuneata, venosa, un- 

 dulata. Filamenta decern, quorum septem minima, setacea; 

 tria, summum nempe, et ab hoc secundum, utrinque Jongi- 

 tudine fere corollae, petalis opposita, et haec versus incurva. 

 Afithera sagittate. Legumen longissimum, planum, line- 

 are, valvis inter semina plura conniventibus. 



Velutta Mandaru, p. 61. fig. 34. 



It is generally agreed to call this the Bauhinia acuminata, al- 

 though the lobes of the leaves are sometimes rather blunt, and 

 never acuminated ; but they are not so much rounded as in the 

 two last-mentioned plants. So far as I have heard, it is seldom 

 distinguished from them by any appropriate name, being usu- 

 ally called Canchun. 



Plukeuet 



