326 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Bauhinia. 
the leaves, woody, very strong, simple. Racemes terminal 
corymbiform. Peduncles round, downy; not very long, as 
the flowers grow near each other. Pedicels about two 
inches long, thickened near the apex, jointed, and have 
there two small lanceolate bractes ; besides a downy, 
narrow-laaceolate one below each pedicel. Flowers pret- 
ty large, when they first open white, but gradually be- 
coming yellow. Calyx spathiform, on a tubular base. 
Corol, the superior petals larger, the inferior more dis- 
tant, Filaments on the upper side of the germ three, — 
nearly as long as the petals, ascending, bearing oblong, 
incumbent anthers; on the under side two or three 
very small, and without anthers. Germ oblong, sessile, — 
downy. Style subulate, rather shorter than the filaments. 
Stigma headed. Legume pendulous, about twelve or 
eighteen inches long, and from two and a half to three — 
broad, compressed, woody, covered with much, dark 
brown, soft yelvet-like down. Seeds from eight to twelve, 
orbicular, flat, smooth, brown, about an inch in diameter, 
and one-sixth of an inch thick, They are eaten raw, when 
ripe, the taste islike that of Cashew-nuts. - 
_ The leaves are employed to line baskets, and various 
other sorts of packages by the hill people, where the 
plant grows for which they are well adapted not only on | 
account of their great size, but also on account of theif 
being remarkably firm, tough, and durable, 
Tl. B. scandens. Willd. 2. 58. Pie 
Scandent. Tendrils opposite. Leaves round cordate, 
apex two-lobed. Racemes terminal, simple, or ramous- 
Flowers triandrous, Loganes linear, from four to five- 
. Folium tail: Rumph, Amb, 5. p.1. t. 1. 
‘ Gunda-gilla the vernacular name in Silhet, where it : 
is indigenous i in the forests of that province, running UP» 
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