on the Hortus Maiabaricus, Part L 499 



quarta species as the Canschena pou, and different from the Man- 

 daru Madaraspatense $c. quoted by Willdenow (Sp. PL ii. 511.) 

 as synonymous with the Bauhinia tomentosa. 



The author of the Encyclopedic (i. 390.) is quite wrong in 

 stating that the leaves have no sinus at the base, asany one may 

 be convinced by looking at the figure of the Canschena pou. In- 

 deed, in the Botanical garden at Calcutta I saw a species from 

 America remarkably allied to this, and which only differed, so 

 far as I could observe, in having folia basi rotundata neccora'ata, 

 and in wanting the large purplish mark near the bottom of the 

 petals. The description in the Encyclopedic is also fault v in re- 

 presenting the flowers as standing in the axillae of the leaves. 



Folia utrinque biloba, subrotunda lobis obtusis. Stipuhc su- 

 bulatae marcescentes. Pedunculus primo quasi terniinalis, 

 sed prodeunte ramulo revera oppositifolius, biflorus. Flo- 

 re* nutantes, flavi. Calyx ovatus, acutus, latere uno dehi- 

 scens, basi intus tuberculis quinque munitus. Petala tu- 

 berculis calycis alterna, sessilia, subrotunda, subrequalia, 

 marginum altero interiore oblique convoluta. Filamenta 

 decern, alternis longioribus, basi unita. Anthera omnes 

 fertiles. Legumen pedicellatum, lineare, acuminatum, pla- 

 num, valvis inter semina ovalia 10. s. 12. transversa con- 

 niventibus. Flos marcescens rubescit ut in Hibisco popul- 

 neo, Gossypiis pluribus, et aliis Malvaceis flore flavo. 



Marotti,;?. 65. Jig. 36. Enc. Meth. iii. 713. 

 I cannot discover that this tree has been introduced into any 

 of the modern botanical systems ; but I have had an opportu- 

 nity of observing the Marotti in the province of Malabar, and 

 another species of the same genus in the hills of Tripura and 

 Camrupa, bounding the province of Bengal on the east. I have 



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