330 DECANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Bouhinia' 



pink, fragrant. Pedicels long, jointed at the middle ; the 

 upper portion, or rather tube of the calyx clavate. Brac- 

 tes filiform. Calyx, here, and I believe in all our Indian 

 species, ought to be described with a long slender tube, 

 and five-parted border. Petals five, equal, spatulate, 

 elegantly curled, spreading. Filaments from the mouth of 

 the tube of the calyx ; three long and fertile, and from 

 two to five small, and abortive. Anthers oval, two-lobed. 

 Germ linear, curved, smooth, rising on a pedicel, with 

 the three fertile stamina, from the lower edge of the mouth 

 oi" the tube of the calyx, one-celled ; ovula many, attach- < 

 ed to the upper margin. Style short. Stigma large. Le- 

 gume thin, from four to five inches long, and three-fourths 

 of an inch broad, smooth, dark brown, from six to twelve- 

 seeded. 



15. B. semibifida. R. 



Scandent. Leaves subovate, deeply two lobed. Stipules 

 broad-falcate. Racemes terminal, i alijx five-leaved. Pe- 

 #a/s oblong, claved, »S/flmma three, with two rudiments. 

 Legume flat, smooth, few-seeded. 



A native of the Malay Archipelago ; from Sumatra it 

 has been introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcut- 

 ta where it blossoms in October and November ; the seeds' 

 ripen in April. 



Stems and branches ligneous, scandent, much bent in 

 various directions. Bark of the young shoots clothed with 

 much ferruginous pubescence, ieaff* bifarious, petioled, 

 subobovate, deeply two-lobed, from seven to nine-nerved ; 

 lobes linear oblong, obtuse, pretty smooth on both sides ; 

 length of the whole leaf from three to five inches, and the 

 breadth from two to four. Petioles xonn A, villous, half the 

 length of the leaves. Stipules broad -falcate, obtuse. Ten- 

 drils simple, ligneous, permanent. Racemes terminal, erect, 

 solitary, large, many-flowered. Flowers white, changing 

 to pale yellow when the stamina drop, pretty large, open- 



