‘Bauhinia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 831 
ing in succession from the base up, fragrant, Peduncles 
and pedicels round and clothed with rust coloured down, 
like the other tender parts; the latter from one to two 
inches long, ascending; apex clavate, this club or en- 
largement is hollow, with a perforation from the apex 
immediately within the attachment of the pedicel of the 
germ, and as itis common to all, it may very properly be 
called the tube of the calyx. Bractes minute, caducous 
‘at an early period. Calyx of five linear, thick, fleshy, 
reflexed, caducous leaflets. Petals five oblong ; base ta- 
pering into claws, the exterior two large, the inner 
one very small: Filaments five, the three exterior ones 
fertile, incurved, shorter than the two longest petals, 
smooth, white, the twoinner ones minute. Anthers very 
large, incumbent. © Germ short, thick and villous. Stig- 
ma very large, and clammy. Legume sublanceolate, thin, 
very smooth, of a dark chesnut colour. Seeds a few, near- 
ly round, flat, and smooth, 
16. B. ferruginea. R. 
~ Scandent. Leaves subrotund, two-lobed. Racemes ter- 
minal, solitary. Tendrils solitary. Petals lanceolate, ob- — 
tuse, downy on the outside. Filaments sah three with 
anthers, and two sterile. 
_ Avery large, woody, scandent species, a native of 
the Malay Islands,. &c- about the straits of Malacca, 
“YB. integrifolia. R. RDS? 
Scandent. Leaves subrotund, emarginate ; floral aver 
cordate, acute. Corymbs panicled. ‘Filaments five, three 
with anthers, and two sterile. 
— Alarge, woody, climbing species, a native of Pulo Pe 
~ Stem, and larger branches woody, climbing over rees, 
Ke. bark smooth; 3 young. ‘shoots covered with dark: rust-c a 
r os alternate, petioled, orbicular, « 
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