328 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA; Bauhinia, 
13. B. anguina. R. 
Scandent. Stem compressed, flexuose; flexures approx- 
imate, regularly and alternately concave and convex 
on the two flat sides. Leaves subcordate, smooth, en- 
tire, or two-lobed ; lobes subtriangular, and acuminate. 
Panicles terminal, flowers triandrous. Legumes oval, 
smooth, from one to two-seeded. 
Naga-ma-valle. Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 30 sink 31. 
Folium linga. Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 1. cannot be this, and 
to it Ihave retained the old Linnean specific name scan- 
dens, though some other might be better, as there are ma- 
ny scandent species now known. oi 
Nag-poot is the vernacular name in Silhet. xg, 
_ Thisis the most extraordinary as well as one of the — 
most extensive ramblers I have met with. Itis a native 
of the mountainous tracts in the vicinity of Silhet, Chit- 
tagong, &c. andthe most regularly serpentine pieces of 
- the stems and large branches are carried about by our nU- 
merous mendicants, to keep off serpents. Flowering time 
about the end of the rains, and the seeds ripen in the cool, 
season. Stems and large branches flat being from four to 
six inches broad, scarcely half an inch thick, when old the 
margins become double, like the letter V or T, and pretty 
straight, whereas the body, or space between them, is 
regularly flexuose, with the flexures alternately conve* 
and concave. Bark rather rough, and ill defined. Wood 
hard, but porous, and nearly white. Branches and branch- 
lets bifarious, and regularly alternate, from the flexuose 
parts just mentioned. Tendrils simple, or bifid, permanent. 
Leaves bifarious, alternate, petioled ; on the older plants 
entire or nearly so, and round-cordate ; on young plants; 
and on the luxuriant shoots, more or less bifid, with the 
lobes narrow and tapering much to their points ; from five 
to seven-nerved, smooth on both sides, from two to six 
inches each way. Paniclesterminal, composed of long, sim 
ple racemes, of numerous, very small white flowers. Calys 
