Baithinia. decandria monogynia. 321 



with smooth brown bark. Leaves alternate, petioled, sub- 

 orbicular, two-lobed, having the lobes obtuse, entire, and 

 smooth on both sides, about three inches long and four 

 broad, the whole leaf beingnearly the same. Petioles round, 

 smooth, swelled at each end, length about one-third of 

 the leaves. Racemes terminal or axillary, rarely oppo- 

 site to the leaves. Calyx spathiform, &c. as in the 

 other species. Petioles cuneiform, obtuse, with the mar- 

 gins waved and curled, three of them forming as it were 

 an upper, and the other two the under lip of the corol. 

 Filaments ten, of which three only are of the length of the 

 pistil, and bear fertile anthers^ the other seven very 

 small and without the least vestige of an anther. Le- 

 gume somewhat sickle-shaped, linear, smooth, from six 

 to twelve inches long. Seeds remote, flat, round, from 

 eight to sixteen in each legume. 



This when in flowers, is one of the most beautiful spe- 

 cies of Bauhinia I have yet met with, and as it blossoms 

 when so low as three feet, and when not more than one 

 year old, is particularly well adapted for the conservatory. 

 It comes nearest to purpiireaia the parts of fruciilication. 



5. B. malabarica. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves transversely broad, oval, smooth, 

 nine-nerved, slightly two-lobed ; lobes rounded. Race- 

 mes axillary, corymbiform, sessile ; calyx and corol regu- 

 lar; stamina ten, all fertile. 



A pretty large tree, a native of Malabar, in the Bota- 

 nic garden at Calcutta, young trees four or five years old 

 from the seed, are about twenty feet high, their stems 

 about as thick as a man's thigh ; coma very ramous, 

 with its numerous, smooth, slender, flexuose branchlets, 

 drooping. It begins to blossom in October and November. 

 This very distinct species is remarkable for the regulari- 

 ty of its five-parted calyx, and equally disposed, equal 

 petals. 



O o 



