Bauhinia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 321 
with smooth brown bark. Leaves alternate, petioled, sub- 
orbicular, two-lobed, having the lobes obtuse, entire, and 
smooth on both sides, about three inches long.and four 
broad,the whole leaf being nearly the same. Petioles round, 
smooth, swelled at each end, length about one-third of 
the leaves. Racemes terminal or axillary, rarely oppo- 
site to the leaves. Calyx spathiform, &c. as in the 
other species. Petioles cuneiform, obtuse, with the mar- 
gins waved and curled, three of them forming as it were 
an upper, and the other two the under lip of the corol. 
Filaments ten, of which three only are of the length of the 
pistil, and bear fertile anthers, the other seven very 
small and without the least vestige of an anther. Leé- 
-gume somewhat sickle-shaped, linear, smooth, from six 
to twelve inches long. Seeds remote, flat, round, ,from 
_ eight to sixteen in each legume. 
- This when in flowers, is one of the most beautiful spe- 
cies of Bauhinia I have yet met with, and as it blossoms 
when so low as three feet, and when not more than one 
year old, is particularly well adapted for the conservatory. 
It comes nearest to purpurea in the parts of fructification, 
5. B)malabarica. R. 
Arboreous. Leaves transversely broad, oval, smooth, 
‘Rine-nerved, slightly two-lobed ; lobes rounded. Race- 
mes axillary, corymbiform, sessile ; calyx and coral regu- 
lar; stamina ten, all fertile, 
A pretty large tree, a native of Malabar, in the’Bota- 
nic garden at Calcutta, young trees four or five years old 
from the seed, are about twenty feet high, their stems 
about as thick asa man’s thigh ; coma very ramous, 
With its numerous, smooth, slender, flexuose branchlets, 
drooping. It begins to blossom in October and November. 
is very distinct species is remarkable for the regulari- 
'y of its five-parted calyx, and equally disposed, equal — 
