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and over trees of the first magnitude. Flowering in April 

 and the seed ripening in October. 



Branchlets very long, flexuose, sending forth from each 

 knee, a small tendril-bearing floriferous twig. The ten- 

 drils are generally opposite, slender, flattened and simple. 

 Leaves alternate, long-petioled, round-cordate, apex di- 

 vided into two lobes, by an open gape ; some few are 

 found perfectly entire, smooth on both sides, general size 

 from three to five inches each way. Racemes terminal, 

 sometimes ramous, but far more frequently simple, co- 

 vered with much brown sericeous pubescence. Flowers 

 rather small for a Bauhinia, alternate, solitary, long pe- 

 dicelled. Bractes acuminate, one under each pedicel, 

 sericeous. Calyx clavate, sericeous, having the mouth 

 divided into five, small, rouaded segments. Petals five, 

 nearly equal, orbicular, short-clawed, densely clothed 

 with much soft, ferruginous grey-down. Filaments three, 

 ascending, longer than the pistillum. Anthers incumbent. 

 Germ short-pedicelled, linear, densely clothed with ferru- 

 ginous down, one-celled ; ovula from five to six. Style 

 rather short. Stigma capitate. Legume linear-oblong, 

 dark brown, somewhat villous, from four to six inches 

 long, and two broad. Seeds about two, nearly orbicular, 

 or a little compressed, smooth, of a dark brownish-black, 

 seven-eighths of the margin is surrounded with the eye as 

 in Carpopogon ; they are the size of a chesnut, and sur- 

 rounded with a soft, spongy, greyish, yellow substance. 



12. B. piperifolia. R. 



Scandent, smooth. Leaves entire, cordate, from five 

 to seven-nerved, lucid. Panicles terminal. Legumes from 

 round to oval, one or two-seeded. 



A large scandent species, a native of the mountain 

 forests north of Silhet, where it blossoms about the be- 

 ginning of the cold season. 



