324 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Bauhinia, 
Trunk straight. Branches numerous, forming a close, 
handsome, large shrub. Bark ash-coloured ; young shoots 
villous ; the general height about ten feet, I mean of large 
plants, Leaves alternate, bifarious, petioled, roundish, 
deeply two-lobed, with a minute bristle between ; lobes 
roundish, villous underneath. Stipules filiform, villous. 
Peduncles solitary, nearly opposite to the leaves, two- 
cleft, two-flowered, Flowers large, of a pale sulphur 
colour, drooping. Bractes three on the outside of the base 
of each pedicel. Petals oval, the upper one smaller, and ~ 
in some plants marked on the inside, with an oblong deep 
purple spot. Filaments ten, ascending, the length of the 
pistillum, Anthers ten, all fertile, Legume lanceolate, vil- 
lous, from five to six-seeded. 
9. B. acuminata. Willd. 2. 511. : 
Shrubby. Leaves with lobes somewhat pointed, Ra- 
cemes laterifolius, and terminal. Stamens ten, alternate 
by shorter. Legumes lanceolate, 
Velutta-mandaru. Rheed. Mal. 1. p. 61. t. 34. 
Beng. Canchun. 
Hind. Cuchunar. 
It is a small, ramous tree, or large shrub ; whole height 
from eight to ten feet. It is in flower most part of the 
year. 
Trunk scarcely any, but many large branches spread i m 
every direction ; bark greyish brown. Leaves alternate, 
bifarious, weiteiid two-lobed, nine-nerved, the middle 
nerve ends in a short bristle between the lobes ; smooth 
above, downy underneath ; lobes oblong, somewhat point- 
ed ; from two to four inchéd long. Petioles chann 
euitiod: and jointed at the base, downy, one inch long. 
Stipules half-lanced, very acute. Flowers racemed, large, 
pure white, inodorous, Racemes solitary, laterifolious, OF 
terminal, short, few-flowered. Bractes a small pointed one 
oelow each pedicel, with two or more scattered among © the 
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