Avausr 31, 1910] A New GENUS AND New SPECIES or LEGUMINOSAE 691 
keels equal in length, united with their claws and along the 
b median line above the middle, puberulent on the back and 
toward the apex, the upper basal portion with a large squarrose 
sagittate lobe, apex broad and either shallowly bifid or minutely 
apiculate; fertile stamens 9, glabrous, 12.5 mm. long; the basal 
two thirds of the filaments united except along the upper side, 
whitish, the free portion subequal in length; anthers ellipsoid, 
1.5 mm. long, minutely bifid at the base and basiufixe de- 
hiscent through longitudinal slits; vexillary stamen free, 
sterile, shorter than the fertile ones, glabrous; ovary hairy, 
l-ovuled, gradually tapering into the 3.5 mm. long thick 
similarly hairy stipe; style as long as the stipe, hairy except 
at the erect glabrous apical portion; stigma minutely capitate; 
young pods 3 cm. long, one half as wide, subsessile, ab- 
ruptly pointed, nearly 7.5 mm. thick, hard, canescently vel- 
vety, 1-seeded. 
Type specimen 12259, A4. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
A tough woody climber and sprawling over thickets and 
L trees along the Patoo river at 500 feet. The native Visayan 
on Sibuyan call it ''Cagay" and eat the beans. 
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BAUHINIA Linn. 
Bauhinia hallieriana Elm. n. sp. 
A usually subscandent and sprawling shrub; stem flex- 
ible, 3 to 5 em. thick, subterete; branches widely sprawling, 
quite slender, smooth, glaucous green, wiry, the young portions 
densely fulvous pubescent; wood odorless, bitter, whitish with 
yellowish streaks; stem bark brown, roughened with minute 
lenticels. Leaves submembranous, slightly descending, glaucous 
green beneath, folded upon the upper side, alternatingly 
scattered along the subglaucous branchlets, diverse in size, 
. broadly elliptic in outline, the larger blades 7.5 cm. long, 
i and as wide across the middle, usually turning brown while 
drying, entire, shallowly cordate at the base, the lobes round- 
ly obtuse or nearly rounded at the apex, their sides curved 
especially the outer, the sharp sinus reaching to the middle 
of the blade, glabrous; nerves 9, digitately spreading from 
