Bauhinia.] 



XLVII. LEGUMINOS.^. 



625 



Petals not longer than calyx lobes. 

 Leaves pubescent; pedicels very 



short (8) B. Ridleyi 



Buds clove-shaped. 



Leaves of 2 connate leaflets, tips round; 



flowers cream colour . . (9) B. glauca 



Flowers medium, red or orange in dense 

 terminal corymbs or racemes. 

 Calyx tube much longer than limb. 

 Leaves 5- to 7-nerved, pubescent 



beneath; pod velvety . 



Leaves 7- to g-nerved glabrous ; pod 



glabrous .... 



Leaves 7-nerved, silky beneath ; 



petals hairy outside 



Calyx tube twice as long as limb, or 



nearly so . 

 Calyx tube short, hardly or not ex- 

 ceeding limb. 

 Flowers in pubescent racemes. 



Racemes many-flowered ; leaves 



entire glabrous . 

 Racemes few-flowered ; leaves 



bifid, pubescent beneath 

 Racemes panicled densely hairy. 

 Leaves entire; racemes few 2 

 in. long .... 

 Leaves bifid; racemes many 

 12 in. long 

 Flowers corymbose. 

 Leaves coriaceous small 3 '5 in. long 

 Calyx tube shorter than lobes. § Lasiobema. 

 Flowers medium or small, 

 green and pink or yellow, 

 not red or orange. 

 Flowers over i in. across in racemes. 

 'Petals orbicular clawed 

 Petals lanceolate clawed 

 Flowers '5 in. across; petals spathulate 

 Flowers "7 in. wide very numerous; 



racemes 8 to 12 in. long 

 Flowers i in. wide; raceme i in. long 

 Flowers -6 in. wide; panicle 8 in. long 

 Flowers over i in. wide; panicle 9 



by 7 in (25) B. bracteata 



(14) 

 (15) 



(16) 

 (17) 



lucida 

 Scortechinii 



integrifolia 

 B. flammifera 

 B. Kingii 



(19) 

 (20) 



(21) 



(22) 

 (23) 

 (24) 



B. Finlaysoniana 

 B. Wrayi 

 B. Cartisii 



strychnoidea 



micrantha 



glabrifolia 



(i) B. acuminata Linn. Sp. PI. 376 ; Baker, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. 

 ii. 276 ; Prain, I.e. 179. 



A shrub about 5 to 10 ft. tall. Leaves slightly cordate cut 

 down into acute or sub-obtuse lobes for a third of their length, 

 glabrous above and hairy and glaucescent beneath, 4 to 5 in. long, 

 3*5 in. wide; petioles i"25 in. long, puberulous. Flowers few 

 corymbose, pure white. Calyx -25 in. long, green. Petals oblong, 

 175 in. long. Stamens 10 fertile. Pod 4 to 5 in. long, -6 to 7 in. 

 wide. Seeds 5 to 15. Hub. An occasional garden escape or remains 

 of abandoned cultivation. I have never seen any which appeared 

 to be really wild, but it is to- be seen, in sandy places usually, in 



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