al DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA- Bauhinia, 
6. B. retusa, R. ; 
Arboreous. Leaves roundish, reniform, from cocostalal 
to scarcely emarginate. Panicles terminal. Petals round- 
ish. Stamens three, all fertile. Legume oblong, from five 
to six-seeded. 
I found this species i in the Company’s Botanic. gar- 
den at Calcutta, but could never Jearn from whence it _ 
was brought. The trees are about twenty years old, 
Flowering time September ; the seed ripens in March. 
Trunk short and thick, but rarely straight, Branches 
spreading, with long, slender, waving, pendulous branch- 
lets. Bark pretty smooth, rust coloured. _ Leaves bifa- 
rious, alternate. petioled, round-reniform ; from two lob- 
ed, to slightly emarginate, with a bristle in the notch, 
from seven to eleven-nerved,; smooth on both sides, di+ 
mensions from three to six inches each way. _Panicles — 
terminal, and axillary, composed of many corymbiform 
racemes ; the ramifications a little villous. Flowers nu> 
merous, small, pale yellow, beautifully marked with nu- 
merous, small, purple spots. Filaments three, from the 
under side, nearly as long as the pistil, ascending, they até 
allfertile, On the upper side of the large woolly recep- 
tacle into which these and the pistil are inserted, ate 
two large; yellow, bristle-pointed, smooth glands, with 
smaller brownish ones, intermixed ; some, or all of these 
have also a little bristle issuing from them, Pistillum, 
when the flowers firstexpand, and for sometime afterwards — 
recurved, as if to. place the stigma below the anthers; 
afterwards it becomes incurved like the stamens, and im, 
that, situation the stigma is higher than the anther. Le- 
gume linear-oblong, with the apex rounded, flat, smooth, — 
about six inches long, and two broad. Seed from four t0, 
eight in the legume, obeyate, much compressed, smooth, 
and of a dark brown colour. . . 
From wounds made in the bark a brownish pa gam ; 
like that of the cherry tree, is produced. ey, 
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