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XLVII. LEGUMINOS.E. 



[Bauhinia. 



Singapore and Malacca. Kunstler collected it in Larut, and on 

 limestone rocks at Gunong Pondok, and perhaps it is really wild 

 there. Disirib. India, Cambodia, Malaya. 



(2) B. moUissima Wall. Cat. 5782 ; Prain, I.e. 180. 



An erect shrub (or slender climber to 60 ft.). Branches tomen- 

 tose, no tendrils. Leaves cordate round, lobes 75 to i'5 in. long, 

 quite round at tips; nerves 11, glabrous above, and prominent 

 puberulous beneath, 3-5 to 4*5 in. long, 4 to 6 in. wide; petioles 

 pubescent, 1-5 in. long. Flowers few, racemed; peduncles -5 to 

 2*25 in. long, tomentose. Calyx tomentose, lobes linear-lanceolate, 



Fig. 55. — Bauhinia mollissima. 



1 in. long, reflexed tube as long. Petals oblanceolate, lower four 



2 in. long, red brown with central yellow streak, the upper one 

 2*25 in. long, '5 in. wide, red with a branched yellow line, all pubes- 

 cent outside. Stamens 3 fertile, glabrous. Ovary tomentose. 

 Pod pubescent, 4 in. long, i in. wide. Seeds i or 2 orbicular. 

 Hab. Open country north of peninsula, usually a bush, slightly 

 scandent or not. Perak, Larut, climber (Kunstler). Penang 

 (Wallich). Kedah, Yan. Perils, Kanga. Distrih. Tenasserim. 



(3) B. calycina Ridl. Joitrn. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 61, p. 3. 

 B. ferruginea var. excelsa Baker, in Hook. fil. F.B.I, ii. 283. 



A climbing shrub covered with mealy red tomentum. Leaves 

 ovate or nearly orbicular, lobes rounded one-third of length, base 

 cordate, glabrous, 3 to 5 in. long and wide; petioles 1-5 to 2 in. 



