320 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Bauhinia. 
in the colour of the flowers ; had I met with this first, at. 
should certainly haye considered the other asa a i 
only. wt 
3. B. purpurea. Willd. 2. 511. 
Arboreous. Leaves smooth ; lobes obtuse. Filaments 
ten, of which three or four are large and fertile. Pamnicles 
terminal. Legumes linear. i 
Chovanna-mandaru. Rheed. Mal. 1. t. 33. “ 
Hind. Sona. Kit 
Beng. Deva-kanchun, i 
This I have not only found in gardens, bind also wild 
on the mountains, where it grows to bea large tree. 
‘Leaves alternate, petioled, nearly bifarious, smoothon — 
both sides, from nine to eleven-nerved ; the middle one 
ending between the lobes in a bristle ; lobes oblong, ob- — 
tuse, the whole from five to six inches long, and from 
four to five broad. Panicles terminal, ascending, com- 
posed of racemes, similar to, though larger than those-of 
B. candida. Bractes, one embracing the insertion of the — 
pedicel, and two pressing the calyx laterally. Flowers — 
numerous, of a deep rose colour, very large. Calyx gene 
rally splits into two ; divisions reflexed, the lower one 8 
generally emarginate, and the upper one three-toothed. 
Petals lanceolate, waved. Stamens three or four, large with 
fertile anthers and six or seven small sterile filaments. ~ 
4. B. triandra. R. ss 
_ Arboreous. Leaves smooth, subrotund, with lobes 5 ob ie 
 tuse. Racemes terminal and axillary. Petals 
form, obtuse, long-clawed, margins waved, and a 
Fertile stamina three. Legume linear, many-seeded. 
A native’of Bengal. In the Botanic garden at Caleut- 
ta,it blossoms in October and November, the ate ripens | 
in March. . 
Trunk straight, and of considerable size. Brances 
