Bauhinia. decandria monogynia. 325 



pedicels. Calyx above, tapering to a long, fine point. 

 Coro/ regular; petals expanding, oblong, concave, obtuse. 

 Filaments ten, ascending, five are larger, more spreading 

 than and alternate with the five shorter ones. Anthers 

 equal. Legume obliquely linear-lanceolate ; upper margin 

 three-keeled. Seeds from eight to twelve. 



Note. The pistillum is often minute, and abortive. This 

 species differs from Candida in being rarely more than 

 a shrub ; in having the lobes of the leaves pointed, and 

 inodorous. Flowers with ten fertile stamens. It is a very 

 specious plant, well deserving a place in the gardens of 

 the curious. 



SECT. II. ScandenL 



10. B. racemosa. Vahl. symbol. S. p. 56. t.62. Willd. 2. 

 509. 



Scandent, and of immense extent. Tendrils opposite. 

 Leaves subrotund ; lobes obtuse, downy. Racemes corym- 

 biform, terminal. Stamina five, three of them fertile. 

 Legume linear, ligneous, very downy. 



Hind. Alahwal. 



Nap. Boila. 



Teling. Adda. 



The largest and most extensive creeper T have seen. 

 It is a native of the mountainous parts all over India, 

 ■where it runs over the highest trees. 



Trunk often as thick as a child's waist when only ten 

 years old. Bark brown and rough. Branches very ex- 

 tensive, I may say from one to three hundred feet; young 

 shoots covered with remarkably soft down. Lzaves re- 

 markably large, alternate, petioled, two lobed ; lobes 

 rounded at both ends, downy with a middle nerve, ending 

 in a soft bristle between the lobes ; size often a foot each 

 way. Petioles round, downy. Tendrils opposite below 



