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species, there are 5 to 10 fertile stamens. In Casparia, containing the third, there is 

 but 1 fertile stamen. The legume is straight, linear, coriaceous, continuous, 2-valved. 

 Both axillary and terminal racemes occur. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Fertile stamens 10 or 5. (Section Pauletia.) 



Petals narrow, linear; stamens 5. 1. Bauhinia pauletia. 



Petals obovate or obcordate ; stamens 10. 2. Bauhinia tomentosa. 



Fertile stamens 1, the rest without anthers. (Section Cas- 

 paria.) 3. Bauhinia kappleri. 



1. Bauhinia pauletia Pers. 



(Urban, 271.) 



Erect or scandent shrubs 3 meters high, armed, leaves suborbicular or quadrate, 5 to 

 8 cm. long and wide, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; petiole 1 to 2.5 cm. long; 

 calyx lobes 10 to 14 cm. long; petals narrowly linear, 5 to 8 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. wide; 

 legume 15 to 25 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, subtomentose; flowering and fruiting in 

 January and February. 



In the copse near Mayaguez; near Cabo Rojo; near Guanica, between La Plata and 

 Sabana Grande near Limon. Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela. West Indies, 

 Trinidad, in shady woods near Arima. 



Local names, mariposa, araria gato. 



2. Bauhinia tomentosa L. 



(Urban, 271.) 



Shrub 1 to 4 meters high; leaves cordate, usually 7-nerved, membranous, 3.75 cm. 

 to 7.50 cm. in diameter, bilobed to one-half or one-third its length, glabrous above, 

 paler or somewhat glaucous, minutely tomentose-pubescent or glabrate beneath, the 

 lobes rounded above and below; calyx limb spathaceous; petals obovate or obcordate, 

 2.50 to 6.25 cm. long, subsessile or shortly clawed, venation divergent, not prominent, 

 pale yellow, posterior one pale purple, with a reddish, nearly black, spot at the base. 

 - Cultivated and also seemingly wild, near Fajardo on waysides; near Mayaguez. 

 Jamaica, Haiti, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Trinidad. Native 

 country, southeastern Asia, tropical Africa. 



3. Bauhinia kappleri Sagot. a 



(Urban, 271.) 



Tree or shrub 10 to 15 meters high; leaves ovate or orbicular, 8 to 12, sometimes 18 

 cm. long and wide, truncateorsubcordateatthebase,lltol3-nerved, unarmed; petioles 

 3 to 6 cm. long; calyx 2 cm. long; petals obovate, 5 cm. long, 2 to 2.5 cm. wide; flowers 

 very large, showy, whitish, rose color, or yellow, with purple lines in lax racemes. 



Cultivated and seemingly spontaneous, near Bayamon; near Fajardo; near Naguabo; 

 around Hacienda Oriente; near Adjuntas at Saltillo; near Pehuelas at La Cueva; 

 near Cabo Rojo on Mount Buena Vista; near Mayaguez; near Manati on calcareous 

 mountains; near Rio Arriba around dwellings. Cuba, Jamaica (Hitchcock), Haiti, 

 St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, Guiana. 

 Native country, southeastern Asia? 



Local names, flamboydn bianco, varietal, seplina. 



a For illustration see Cook and Collins, pi. 19. facing p. 90. 



