178 Materiah for a Flora of the Malayan Ptuiusula. 



Pod longer, 3-5.seeded ... ... ... 23. B. Curtis^ii. 



Calyx-limb entire ; petals red ; pods large densely pi^bes- 



cent (3-5-seeded) ; leaves rigid, entire ... ... 24. B. ^frychnoidea. 



§ 1. LYSiPitYi.LUM Beiitli. Fertile stamens 10. . Calyx ^atli a 

 long tube and 5-cleft limb. Pod broad indeliiscent. Leaflets distinct. 



1. Bauiiixia DiPHYLLA Ham. in Syme, Embassy 476 c. Ic. (1800). 

 A very extensive glabrous twining species Avith circinate tendrils, 

 sometimes spreading 200-300 feet or further. Leaves cordate at base ; 

 leaflets always quite free, eacli 5-6-nerved, flexible, rounded at botli ends, 

 ■wider below, 3 in. long, 2 in across, pnle-green glabious on both surfaces; 

 petiole glabrous •75-1-25 in. long, slightly thickened at both ends. 

 Floivers very large, in lax terminal racemes 8-12 in. long, pedicels glab- 

 rous ascending 1-5-2 in. long, bracts small ovate squamous ; 'buds 2 in. 

 long fusiform. Calyx thickly coriaceous, green, glabrous, limb cut to 

 base into 5 lanceolate equal refloxed segments 1-2 in. long, tube '8 in. 

 long very slightly infundibuliform. Petals lanceolate erect, clawed, 

 equal, as long as calyx-lobes, '4 in. Avide, white, faintly veined. Stamens 

 10, all fertile, equal, anthers linear, filaments as long as petals, glabrous. 

 Ovary glabrous very long-stalked, style '5 in. long, somewhat incurved. 

 Pod very large, thin and flat, 10-16 in. long, 3 in. wide, stipe 2 in. long, 

 rather finely transversely veined. Seeds 30-40 in a row along the 

 middle of the pod, oval, somewhat compressed, "5 in. long, '3 in. across, 

 •2 in. thick, testa pale-brown shining. Wall. Cat. 5784 ; Bak. in Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. II, 278. Bauhinia Buclianani Desv. Ann. Sc. Nat,, ser. I, 

 IX, 430. Phauera dipliylla Benth. PI. Jungh. 264. 



Malacca ; Grifith (fide Baker). Distkib. Burma ; S. India. 



This species is extremely plentiful in Burtna but has never been sent to Calcutta 

 from Malaya. It is inserted on the authority of Mr. Baker iu the Flora of British 

 India II, 278. 



§ 2. Pauletia Cav. Fertile stamens 10. Calyx with very short 

 tube and spatliaceous limb. Pod nan-ow dehiscesit. Eiect shrubs with 

 large showy flowers and connate leaflets. 



2. Bauhinia tomentosa Linn. Sp. PI. .375. An erect shjub with 

 downy zig-zag rounded branches. Leaves truncate at base, flexible, 

 rather broader than long, 2-2*5 in. wide, 7-y-nerved, cut tliree-sevenths 

 down into two rounded obtuse or faintly acute lobes, shining glabrous 

 above, closely pubescent beneath ; petiole pubescent, slightly grooved 

 above, thickened at both ends, '5 in. long. Floivers in short-peduncled 

 leaf -opposed 2-fld. (rarely 1- or 3-fld.) peduncles -4-1-2 in. long, pedicels 

 erect 2 in. long, 2-bracteolate, bracts linear -25 in. long ; buds narrowly 

 ovate-acute, -7 in. long, the tip very shortly subulately 5-lobed. Calyx 

 green, finely closely pubescent, splitting spathaceously to the base of 



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