Bauhinia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 319 
rile filaments in this species. Germ long-pedicelled. 
Style short, ascending, Legume linear, compressed 
smooth, many-seeded. - 
2. B. variegata. Willd. 2. 
’ Arboreous. Leaves smooth, subrotund with obtuse 
lobes. Racemes terminal and axillary. Petals broad- 
cuneiform, with waved margins. Stamens five, all fertile. 
Legume linear, 
Chovanna mandaru. Rheed. Mal. lip: 57. t. a2. 
Sans. Kuvidara. 
Beng. Ructa-kanchun, 
It is one of the most stately of the genus, growing to be 
atree of considerable size ; I have only found it in gar- 
dens ; where it is indigenous I cannot say. Flowering time 
the rweastlts of February and March, the seed eripass in 
April and May. 
Trunk tolerably erect, often as thick as a man’s Bye 
_ Bark dark ash-coloured and pretty smooth. = Branches 
humerous, spreading in every direction, with smooth ash- 
coloured bark. Leaves subifarious, petioled, suborbicu- — 
lar, two-lobed ; lobes obtuse, smooth above, somewhat 
villous underneath, from two to three inches each way, 
Racemes terminal, few-flowered. — Peduncles clavate, 
round, villous. Bractes small, caducous. Flowers large, — 
ofa lively reddish purple. Calyx spathiform. Petals 
Unilateral, pairs equal, and oblong, with somewhat curled 
Margins ; the upper one is broader, more deeply colour- 
ed, and with a longer channelled claw. Stamina five, 
all fertile, sometimes there are the minute rudiments of 
{tom one to five abortive-filaments between them. Legume 
Straight, linear, compressed, acuminate, pedicelled. Seeds 
| Six totwelve, approximate, or often with the anterior _ 
oe one eae: over the posterior edge of its neigh- as 
a “This tree can only ‘be said to differ from B, 
