Bauhinia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.- 327 
and over trees of the first magnitude. Flowering in April 
and the seed ripening in October. 
+ Branchlets very long, flexuose, sending forth from each 
knee, a small tendril-bearing floriferous twig. The ten- 
drils are generally opposite, slender, flattened and simple. 
Leaves alternate, long-petioled, round-cordate, apex di- 
vided into two lobes, by an open gape; some few are 
found perfectly entire, smooth on both sides, general size _ 
from three to five inches each way. Racemes terminal, 
. sometimes ramous, but far more frequently simple, co- 
vered with much brown sericeous pubescence. Flowers 
rather small for a Bauhinia, alternate, solitary, long pe- 
dicelled. Bractes acuminate, one under each pedicel, 
sericeous. Calyx clavate, sericeous, having the mouth 
divided into five, small, rounded segments. Petals five, 
nearly equal, orbicular, short-clawed, densely clothed 
with much soft, ferruginous grey-down, Filaments three, 
ascending, longer than the pistillum. Anthers incumbent, 
Germ short-pedicelled, linear, densely clothed with ferru- 
ginous down, one-celled; ovula from five to six. Style 
tather short. Stigma capitate. Legume linear-oblong, 
dark brown, somewhat villous, from four to six inches 
long, and two broad. Seeds about two, nearly orbicular, 
ora little compressed, smooth, of a dark brownishsblack, 
seven-eighths of the margin is surrounded with the eye as 
in Carpopogon ; they are the size of a chesnut, and. ‘sur- 
rounded with a soft, spongy, greyish, yellow substance, 
12. B, piperifolia. R. 
Scandent, smooth. Leaves entire, cordate, from five | 
to seven-nerved, lucid. Panicles terminal. Legumes from 
Tound to oval, one or two-seeded. 
A large scandent species, a native of the mountain : 
forests north of Silhet, where it blossoms about the We 
; Ciena of the pels season. — aa? 
