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wide, lanceolate, silky on both sides; pedicels 6 mm long, slender, 

 rusty -tomentose; buds club-shaped, 1,2 cm long, tapering from 

 the blunt apex to the base. Calyx rusty -velvety, limb splitting 

 into obovate-lanceolate, acuminate lobes, 9 — 11 mm long, 4 mm 

 wide, infundibular part 6 mm long. Petals 5, subequal, ovate, 

 distinctly clawed, 1,2 cm long, 6 mm wide, on both sides with 

 long silky hairs. Stamens 5, 3 fertile, 2 staminodial , linear, 

 oblong, filaments uniform, glabrous. Ovary densely rusty - 

 tomentose, stalk 5 mm long, tomentose as is the style, 6 mm 

 long; stigma peltate. Pod dark brown, shiny, 11 — 12 cm long, 

 3 cm wide, tapering slightly to both ends, woody. Seeds from 

 5 — 7, much compressed, orbicular, dark brown, 1,3 cm long, 

 9 mm wide. 



Island ofParagua, Ewiig Kiver (Merrill no. 694; in flower 

 in February). 



10. Bauhinia iiymphaeifolia Perk. n. sp. Shrubby, branches 

 cupreo-fusco- tomentose, sub terete. Leaves roundish, base deeply 

 cordate, bifid Y^ — -Yg down, sinus narrow, subcoriaceous, 

 5 — 12 cm long, rather broader than long, above cupreo-fusco- 

 velvety at first, later shining, glabrous, beneath densely cupreo- 

 fusco -tomentose especially at the nerves, 12 — 13 -nerved; lobes 

 rotundate; petiole 3 — 5 cm long, cupreo-fusco -tomentose, slightly 

 thickened at both ends. Flowers in copious, lax terminal race- 

 mes, 2 — 5 cm long; pedicels silky, erecto- patent, the lower 

 3 — 4 cm long, bracts at the base usually deciduous, 1mm long, 

 ovate, acute, tomentose; bracteoles very small; bud 1,5 cm long, 

 the narrowly -infundibuliform base much shorter than the ovoid 

 apiculate upper part. Calyx closely cupreo-fusco -velvety, limb 

 splitting into 5 subequal, reflexed, broadly lanceolate lobes, 8 mm 

 long, 2,5 mm wide; tube narrow- infundibuliform, 5 mm long. 

 Petals subequal, 2 being somewhat smaller than the others, 

 about 9 mm wide, 10 mm long, externally cupreo-fusco -hirsute, 

 margins slightly wavy. Stamens 5, 3 fertile, 2 staminodial very 

 minute, hirsute, scale-like; filaments hirsute. Ovary short- 

 stalked, hirsute, style short, 7 mm long, stigma peltate. 



Philippines (Cuming no. 1180). 



This species is related to Bauhinia Camingiana from which, 

 however, it is readily distinguished by the more rotundate and 

 thickly pubescent leaves. 



