330 ‘DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Bauhinia. 
pink, fragrant. Pedicels long, jointed at the. middle ; the 
upper portion, or rather tube of the calyx clavate. Brac- — 
tes filiform. Calyx, here, and I believe in all our Indian 
species, ought to be described witha long slender tube, 
and five-parted border.. Petals five, equal, spatulate, 
elegantly curled, spreading. Filaments from the mouth of 
the tube of the calyx ; three long and fertile, and from 
two to five small, and abortive. Anthers oval, two-lobed. 
Germ linear, curved, smooth, rising on a pedicel, with 
the three fertile stamina, from the lower edge of the mouth 
of the tube of the calyx, one-celled ; ovula many, attach- 
ed tothe upper margin. Style short. Stigma large. Le- 
gume thin, from four to five inches long, and three-fourths 
of an inch broad, smooth, dark brown, from six to twelve- 
seeded, : 
15..B. semibifida. R. 
Scandent. Leaves subovate, deeply two-lobed. Sigal 
broad-falcate, Racemes terminal. Calyx five-leaved. Pe- 
tals oblong, claved. Stamina three, with two rudiments. 
Legume flat, smooth, few-seeded. ida 
A native of the Malay Archipelago ; from Sumatra it 
has been introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcut- 
ta where it blossoms in October and N ovember ; “i 
ripen in April. 
Stems and branches ligneous, scandent, ue bent in 
_ various directions, Bark of the young shoots clothed with 
much ferruginous pubescence. Leaves bifarious, petioled, 
subobevate, deeply two-lobed, from seven to nine-nerved; 
lobes linear oblong, obtuse, pretty smooth on both sides 5 
length of the whole leaf from three to five inches, and the 
breadth from two to four. Petioles round, villous, half the 
length of the leaves. Stipules broad-falcate, obtuse. Ten- 
drils simple, ligneous, permanent. Racemes terminal, erect, 
solitary, large, many-flowered. Flowers white, changios 
to pale yellow when the stamina drop, pretty large, ope 
