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leaves covered underneath with reddish tomentum, nor the leaflets united far 
above the middle, this last appearance, in Rheede’s plate, being caused by 
their overlapping each other a little, which they do not unfrequently.—We 
can scarcely distinguish B. triandra of Roxburgh ; the petals are said to be 
obtuse, while in ours they are oftener acute, but there does not appear to be 
any other difference : in both they taper much towards the base *. 
916. (8) B. Vahlii (W. & A.:) climbing to an immense extent: young 
shoots, petioles, peduncles, and tendrils, covered with a thick rusty-coloured 
tomentum: leaves roundish, deeply cordate at the base, upper side nearly 
glabrous, under tomentose ; leaflets oval, obtuse, slightly diverging or nearly 
parallel, united to a little above the middle, 4—6-nerved, the nerves beneath 
covered with rusty tomentum : tendrils opposite, below the leaves, simple, 
spiral : racemes terminal, corymbiform ; pedicels elongated, and with the ca- 
lyx densely villous: calyx ovate, splitting to the base of the limb into 2 re- 
exed segments: petals cuneate-obovate, obtuse, densely clothed on the back 
(except towards the margins) with adpressed long silky hairs, the three up- 
per a little larger than the others: fertile stamens 3, long, ascending, villous 
at the base, with 2-7 short sterile filaments: ovary densely villous, its stalk 
cohering on one side with the calyx-tube: style sparingly villous, oe 
flexuose (much so during :estivation) : stigma capitate: legume pendulous, 
long, linear, compressed, ligneous, shortly villous, 8-12-seeded.— Wight! cat. 
n. 628.—B. scandens, Rowb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 53 (not of the fl. Ind.).— 
B. racemosa, Vahl, symb. 9. p. 56, t. 62 (not Lam.); DC. prod. 2. p. 515 ; 
Spr. syst. 2. p. 333 ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 825; Wall. L. n. 5115.— —Circars ; 
Roxburgh. i ; 
Our own Indian specimens were obtained from the Missionaries’ Garden, 
and are without flowers or fruit: and as we had not an opportunity of ex- 
amining Dr Wallich’s, we have described the flowers from a cultivated one in 
Mr Arnott’s herbarium from the Mauritius, and taken the character of the le- 
e from Roxburgh’s fl. Indica t. The specimens seen by Vahl and by De 
/andolle appear to have been cut off above the tendrils, as they take no no- 
tice of that organ: every other particular, however, agrees well with our 
plant.—The branches are very extensive, from 100 to 300 feet long, climbing 
over the highest trees. Leaves often very large; we have one before us al- 
most a foot and a half in diameter; those near the flowers are much smaller, 
sometimes not exceeding 3 inches across. 
Which are generally scarcely notched at the base, while in B. purpurea they are usually deeply cordate; - 
the panicle, too, in B. triandra is more lax but less divaricated, and more slender; the petals, and espe- 
both forms are found under each name: thus one specimen I have of Wall. L. n. 3794. Be ; 
.n. w another ) 
same letter is B. purpurea, to which I alsorefer Wall. L. n. 5797. b, e; d (partly), f, h (partly, and Be- - 
tween these dtto (ere are, however, some intermediate specimens ; among which may be mentioned 
«IS for decision; another specimen under the same number letter is more slender than those 
&inata ; m is very doubtfully B. variegata, but much too incomplete for dete Iba 
nOrg. InH ^ i dinburgh, B. triandra (n. 1007) is 
Gents n ton M now belonging to the Vise. d. of Ei ae rgh, » : 
rpu 
; and it is very probable that he may be right, particularly as I find the of 
the structure of sinn legume and fioww-Dod alike. I A^ few perfect | eh mi nat 
Meni ge inflorescence of B. triandra a — axillary races and that of B. seg pad a 
panicle: B. triandra often has a raceme, occasionally a panicle, which howev larger 
and more branched in B. purpurea: in both the inflorescence is terminal or axillary towards the extre- 
branches.”—Graham in litt. 
Since the above was written, Dr Graham has obligingly sent us a complete description of the plant 
Indian specimens i his herbarium Tice ODE, our own in every point. Dr Graham adds, 
corymbiform racemes are either terminal or by the of the branches become opposite 
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