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the lower portion with irregulär, dark, transverse bands; marginal prickles 

 raised, deltoid or slightly curved forward, 3—4 mm long, about 2 cm 

 distant in the lower portion, about 12 mm higher up, separated by straight 

 or slightly curved interspaces. Inflorescence about 90 cm high; peduncle 

 slender. dark brown, slightly compressed at the base, without empty bracts 

 and branches for about 54 cm, then bearing at short intervals 6 loose 

 racemes in the axils of deltoid cuspidate bracts, which are about 4 cm 

 long; floriferous portion of the racemes about 15 cm long, floriferous 

 bracts scarious, deltoid-cuspidate, light-coloured, with sorae dark brown 

 longitudinal lines, lower c. 2 cm long, upper gradually smaller; pedicels 

 c. 7 mm long. Flowers erecto-patent; perianth c. 3,4 cm long, slightly 

 curved. tube stmngly swollen at the base. about 2 / 3 the length of the 

 perianth, red, lobes with dark red centre, outer with pale red wings, 

 inner with yellowish red wings, inner broader than the outer; stamens, 

 when shedding their pollen, slightly but distinctly exserted, filaments 

 tlattened. whitish below, yellow higher up, anthers reddish, oblong; style 

 yellow, filiform, exserted after the pollen is shed. 



Received from Kew gardens in 1902. Plowered in Grahamstown. 

 June 1903, 1904 — Transvaal (without precise locality). J. Burtt-Davy. 

 Februarv 1905. 



LVIII. Gust. 0. A:N. Malme, Bauhiniae Mattogrossenses novae. 



(Aus: Arkiv för Botanik, V. no. 5 [1905].) 



1. Bauhinia campestris Malme, 1. c, p. 10. 



Suffrutex v. herba perennis usque 70 cm altus, gregatim crescens. 

 Caulis saepe flexuosus, ± 5-angulatus, glanduis sparsis et pilis paten- 

 tissimis, brevibus, subferrugineis, crebris vestitus, internodiis brevibus, 

 vulgo, 4—5 cm longis. Folia brevipetiolata, petiolo 4—8 mm longo, sub- 

 coriacea, latissima, quadrato -suborbicularia, vulgo 10—12 cm longa, 

 11 — 14 cm lata, basi leviter cordata, rarius rotundato-truncata, apice 

 leviter (V 6 — 1 /4) biloba, sinu apertissimo, lobis vulgo obtusissimis v. rotun- 

 datis. 7-, rarius 9-nervia, subtus reticulato-venosissima, supra glaucescentia 

 et glaberrima v. in nervis pilis brevibus raris ornata, subtus parce glandu- 

 losa et pilis brevibus, patentissimis, canescentibus v. pallide rufescentibus 

 pubescenti-tomentosa. Inflorescentia terminaiis, racemiformis, pauciflora, 

 longepedunculata (pedunculo circiter 20 cm longo). Alabastra florum 

 5-gona, circiter 5 cm longa, superne haud incrassata, glandulis et pilis 

 brevibus, creberrimis vestita. Petala angustissima, acuta, albido-viridula. 

 Stamina omnia fertilia. antheris linearibus. 



