Bauhinia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 325 
pedicels. Calyx above, tapering toa long, fine point, 
Corol regular; petals expanding, oblong, concave, obtuse. 
Filaments ten, ascending, five are larger, more spreading 
than and alternate with the five shorter ones. Anthers 
equal. Legume obliquely linear-lanceolate ; upper margin 
three-keeled. Seeds from eight to twelve. 
Note. The pistillum is often minute, and abortive. This 
species differs from candida in being rarely more than 
a shrub; in having the lobes of the leaves pointed, and 
 Inodorous. Flowers with ten fertile stamens. It is a very 
specious plant, well deserving a place in the Bardens of | 
Gp curious. 
SECT. II. Scandent. 
- 10. B. racemosa. Vahl. symbol. 3. p. 56. ¢.62, Willd, 2. 
- Scandent, and of immense extent. 'Tendrils opposite. 
Leaves subrotund ; lobes obtuse, downy. Racemes corym- 
biform, terminal. Stamina five, three of them fertile. 
Legume linear, ligneous, very downy. 
Hind, Mahwal. 
Nap. Boila. 
Teling. Adda. 
The largest and most extensive creeper I have seen, 
It is a native of the mountainous parts all over India, 
where it runs over the highest trees. 
Trunk often as thick as a child’s waist when only ten 
years old. Bark brown and rough, Branches very ex- 
tensive, I may say from one to three hundred feet; young. 
shoots covered with remarkably soft down, Leaves re- 
Markably large, alternate, petioled, two-lobed ; lobes 
rounded at both ends, downy with a middle nerve, ending 
in a soft bristle between the lobes ; size often a foot each 
Way. Petioles round, downy. Tendrils opposite below, 
