Bauhinia. decandria monogynia. 319 



rile filaments in this species. Germ long-pedicelled. 

 Style short, ascending. Legume linear, compressed 

 smooth, many-seeded. 



2- B. variegata. Willd. 2. 



Arboreous. Leaves smooth, subrotund with obtuse 

 lobes. Racemes terminal and axillary. Petals broad- 

 cuneiform, with waved margins. Stamens ^\e, all fertile. 

 Legume linear. 



Chovanna mandaru. Rheed. Mai. 1. p. 57. t. 32. 



Sans. Kwvzdara. 



Beng. Rwcta kanchwn. 



It is one of the most stately of the genus, growing to be 

 a tree of considerable size ; I have only found it in gar- 

 dens ; where it is indigenous I cannot say. Flowering time 

 the mouth of February and March, the seed ripens in 

 April and May. 



Trunk tolerably erect, often as thick as a man's body. 

 Bark dark ash-coloured and pretty smooth. Branches 

 numerous, spreading in every direction, with smooth ash- 

 coloured bark. Leaves subifarious, petioled, suborbicu- 

 lar, two-lobed ; lobes obtuse, smooth above, somewhat 

 villous underneath, from two to three inches each way. 

 Racemes terminal, few-flowered. Peduncles clavate, 

 round, villous, ^racfes small, caducous. Flowers l?irge, 

 of a lively reddish purple. Calyx spathiforra. Petals 

 unilateral, pairs equal, and oblong, with somewhat curled 

 margins ; the upper one is broader, more deeply colour- 

 ed, and with a longer channelled claw. Stamina five, 

 all fertile, sometimes there are the minute rudiments of 

 from one to five abortive filaments between them. Legume 

 straight, linear, compressed, acuminate, pedicelled. Seeds 

 from six to twelve, approximate, or often with the anterior 

 edge of one resting over the posterior edge of its neigh- 

 bour. 



This tree can only be said to differ from B. Candida, 



