1. Bauhinia.] i2. CMSALVimACEM. 



The bark yields a fibre and a gum, the latter is used in sweetmeats. 

 Campbell says that the leaves have a bitter disagreeable taste. 



7. B. purpurea, L. Singara, M.; Singa; Ho.; Sinhara, 

 S. ; Koinar, Eharw. ; Kundrau, Mai Pah. 



A mcd.-sized tree (but not unfrequently flowering as a 

 shrub) with very deeply-lobed leaves, cordate base 9-11-nerved 

 and lobes with usually angular tips. Large purple fls, in 

 terminal panicled racemes with acutely 5- angled buds. Pod 

 6-12 7 by f-1" flat, twisted and dehiscent when ripe with 

 coriaceous thin valves. 



Frequent in all districts, esp. in valleys, and often grown in the villages 

 throughout Ch. Nagpur. Fls. Sept -Dec. Fr. Jan.-March. 



Twigs glabrous. L. 5-7" long and about as broad (though quite little 

 leaves may often occur on the same shoot) split from ^rd of the way dowi; 

 (seldom less) often to near the base, glabrous or minutely puberulous or 

 the nerves beneath, green scarcely glaucous, much more membranous thai, 

 in B. variegata. Petiole 1-li". Calyx spathaoeous, limb f '', the turbi- 

 nate tube 5-|". Petals oblanceolate I5-2 7 long, often variegated white, 

 long-clawed. Stamens 3-2 perfect and filamentous staminodes. Pod 

 narrow below, nearly always broadening upwards. 



The bark gives a fibre. The leaves are eaten as vegetables. 



Var.a A amail form with smaller pink flowers with darker center. On. 

 limestone, Naga Untari (W- Palamau) Fls. Dec. 



This is probably Roxburgh's B. triandra, which should perhaps be 

 maintained as a distinct species. The leaves are broader with broader 

 sinus, the petals cuneate obtuse. 



8. B. variegata* L. Buj, Buruju, Burunga, K. \ Jhinjhir, 

 8. ; Kachnar, Kharw,, H. ; Knndol, Bhumij. 



A mod.-sized tree with leaves lobed £-|rd of the way 

 down, cordate base 13-15 -nerved (few L. onlj 11) and lobes 

 rounded at the tips. Large pink or pure white flowers most- 

 ly in short racemes from leafless axils with buds terete. Pod 

 6-12" by f-r flat, dehiscent. 



On the hills in Singbhum (e.g., Birda forest). Common in the Tnndi 

 forests (Manbham, Campbell) ; Hazaribagh (near Bogoda) ; Palamau 

 Gamble ! S. P. occasional and generally distributed wild and cultivated^ 

 Fls. Feby. -March and the upper part of the tree leafless at the time. Fr. 

 April. 



