Leguminosae. 13 



This plant is easily distinguished from Bauhinia ferruginea 

 Roxb. by the shape and length of the calyx -tube, the exter- 

 nally thinly pubescent petals, and the leaves which are beneath 

 pubescent. 



Sect. Y Casparia. 

 13. Bauhinia Kappleri Sagot. 



Middle Luzon, Arayat (Waeburg no. 13743). 



Ueban in his extremely interesting morphological investi- 

 gations in regard to the genus Bauhinia (in Ber. deutsch. bot. 

 Ges. Ill [1885] p. 83), takes occasion to describe the peculiar 

 species Bauhinia Krugii. He states that the specimens he had 

 examined evidently came from cultivated shrubs. Later he dis- 

 covered that Sagot (in Ann. sc. nat. 6. ser. XIII [1882] p. 317), 

 three years before, had described the same species from Guiana 

 (cf. Urb. Symb. antill. I [1899] p. 315). Subsequently there came 

 to the Berlin Herbarium a specimen of Bauhinia from the Cal- 

 cutta Gardens, sent by Dr. Prain, under the name of Bauhinia 

 monandra S. Kurz. B. monandra S. Kurz (in Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal. XLII, 2 [1873] p. 73) was based upon a plant which 

 Beandis collected in Burma. Dr. Harms informs me, that he 

 is of the opinion, that very probably Bauhinia monandra 

 S. Kurz was identical with Bauhinia Krugii Urban, but that the 

 matter can only be definitely settled after a comparison has been 

 made with the original. The description of Kurz answers very 

 well for Urban's species. 



As in America the species only occurs in cultivation, the 

 home of the plant may possibly be Burma. Unfortunately War- 

 burg, in the material he collected in the Philippines, does not 

 mention if he found the plant in a wild or in a cultivated state. 

 Very recently this species has been found by Busse in East 

 Africa, near Dar-es-Salam, where it is cultivated on account of 

 its beautiful flowers. In the Sandwich Islands it is also planted, 

 as is proved by a specimen collected by Hillebraj^d bearing the 

 label Bauhinia variegata (Hort. Honolulu). Urban says, that the 

 species is intermediate between sections Casparia and Phanera. 

 It is placed by Taubert (Engl.-Prantl, Pflzfam. Ill, 3 p. 151) in 

 the section Casparia. 



The typical representatives of this section, especially 

 distinguished by having only one fertile stamen, are without 



