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Named after two brothers, John and Caspar Bauhin, both 

 of them distinguished in Botany. The leaves are bilobed, as if 

 from the union of two single leaves. 



1. Bauhinia porrecta. Mountain Ebony, 



Leaves cordate puberulous along the under surface 

 of the nerves, as also the petioles and branchlets, 

 leaflets united as far as the middle ovate acuminate 

 3-4 nerved, petals lanceolate. 



Sennse spuriae aut Aspalatho affinis arbor siliquosa, foliis 

 binis, Sloane, I. 51. — Bauhinia foliis bilobis, spicis laxis terini- 

 nalibus, Browne, 286. — B. porrecta, Swartz, Prod. 66. — Jacg. 

 Schcenh. t. 100. — Sims, Bot. Mag. 1708. 



HAB. Common : lower hills, in thickets. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



A shrub, about 6 feet in height : branches erect. Lobes of 

 the leaves 3-nerved, besides the middle nerve common to both ; 

 nerves subparallel. Racemes terminal. Flowers tinged with 

 red, or sometimes white. Nine of the stamens monadelphous 

 and sterile ; the tenth long, free, antheriferous. 



B. AuRiTA, distinguished by " glabrous leaves, leaflets unit- 

 ed for Jth of their length oblongo-lanceolate 8-nerved, and pe- 

 tals ovate," is said to be indigenous, although it has not been 

 noticed by any of the Botanists who have visited the Island. 

 B. PUBEscENsZ)e Cand. is probably a variety of B. tomentosa 

 produced by cultivation, the latter being a very common shrub 

 in our gardens. 



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