Bauhinia.] xlvii. LEGUMiNOSiE. 627 



long. Raceme stout, mealy; pedicels 1-5 in. long. Calyx-tube 

 •25 to '5 in. long, campanulate, lobes 5 linear-acuminate, acute, 

 red- woolly, i'25 in. long. Petals little longer, glabrous, white. 

 Stamens 3 angled, 75 in. long; filaments very short. Style 

 short, pubescent. Pod oblong cuspidate, 7 in. long, 2 in. wide. 

 Seeds 4, elliptic. Hah. Lowland woods in the south. Johor, 

 Gunong Pulai. Malacca (Griffith). Selangor, Kwala Lumpur; 

 Petaling. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga (Napier) ; Bukit Kupa- 

 yiang (Cantley) ; Seremban. Native name : Akar Kurutok Hitam. 

 Use : Roots boiled, a drug for dropsy. 



Baker identified two specimens of this in Griffith's collections as B. diphylla 

 and B. ferru^inea var. excelsa respectively. 



(4) B. semibifida Roxh. Hort. Beng. 31; Wall. PI. As. Rar. 

 t. 253 ; Baker, I.e. ii. 280 ; Prain, I.e. 182. 



A medium or gigantic climber, often slender, but sometimes 

 with a stem 4 to 6 in. thick. Leaves rounded, oblong, base cordate ; 

 lobes ovate, blunt "5 in. long ; nerves 11, elevate, pubescent beneath, 



3 in. long and wide ; petioles i in. long pubescent. Stipules ovate, 

 falcate '15 in. long. Raceme lengthening to 6 in. or more, red- 

 tomentose; buds club-shaped; pedicels 1-25 in. long, tomentose. 

 Calyx densely pubescent, tube -4 to "5 in. long, dilate towards 

 base, lobes narrowly lanceolate acute '5 to 7 in. long, -15 in. wide, 

 green. Petals oblanceolate obtuse, short clawed, '8 to i in. long, 

 chalky white turning yellow green, glabrous except claw and on 

 base of midrib. Stamens 3 fertile, white. Ovary stalked brown 

 rusty-silky ; style thick, silky. Stigma large, peltate. Pod oblong, 

 thin ; valves black, 4 in. long, 1-25 in. wide ; stalk 35 in. long. Seeds 



4 to 6 orbicular. Hab. Thick forest and edges of forest. Singapore, 

 Garden Jungle; Bukit Timah. Malacca (Griffith). Tringganu, 

 Bundi (Rostado). Distrib. Sumatra. 



Roxburgh's B. semibifida was based on a Sumatran plant cultivated in 

 Calcutta Gardens. The pictures, Roxburgh's own and Wallich's, differ in 

 the smaller flowers and distinctly hairy branches and leaves. The Singapore 

 plant identified with this by Prain and the Malaccan plant identified by 

 Baker are not hairy. I have seen no specimens from Sumatra. It was 

 formerly at least common in Singapore, and our only wild Bauhinia there. 

 I never met with it anywhere else. Baker's description appears to be based 

 on the Malacca plant, and agrees with the Singapore plant. 



(5) B. HuUettii Prain, I.e. 183. 



Large climber 20 ft. or more tall, pubescent. Tendrils pubescent. 

 Leaves rounded cordate, lobes rounded oblong, one-third length of 

 leaf, sub-coriaceous, 2-5 to 4 in. long, 2-5 in. wide, sparsely pubescent 

 above, appressed pubescent beneath or glabrous; petioles i in. 

 long, pubescent. Stipules orbicular hairy. Raceme lax about 

 i2-flowered, puberulous; pedicel 1-25 to 1-5 in. long. Buds club- 

 shaped. Calyx rose pink, as are pedicels, tube dilate towards 

 base, lobes lanceolate -4 to -5 in. long, -i in. wide. Petals oblanceo- 

 late obtuse, long-clawed, densely tomentose outside, 1-25 in. long, 



