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Calyx-ivihe usually more or less produced ; limb 5 cleft or, very rarely, 

 spatliaceous. Erect or scandent ; flowers -variable in size. 



4. Bauhinea purpurea Linn. Sp. PI. 375. An erect tree 20-30 

 feet high, with moderately stout glabrescent branches and without 

 tendrils. Leaves roundish, base shallowly cordate, apex divided otie- 

 third to one-half down, sinus wideish, lobes rounded obtuse or subacute ; 

 rigidly subcoriaceous, 4-6 in. long and brond, medium green, glabrous 

 above, paler and glabrous or faintly puberulous beneath ; nerves 9-11 ; 

 petiole 1'5 in. glabrous; stipules small membranous, triangular, '1 in. 

 long, deciduous. Floivers in terminal and axillary short- ped uncled few- 

 fld. corymbs, 2-4 in. long j lower pedicels •25-*5 in. long, puberulous 

 as is the rachis, bracts minute deltoid, deciduous ; buds clavate 15 iu. 

 long, tapering uniformly from the blunt apex to the base. Calyx tawny- 

 downy, limb '9 in. long, splitting into 2 coriaceous valves sliglitly divided 

 at the apex into 5 sliort teeth, tube slightly dilated upwards '6 in. long. 

 Petals 5, oblanceolate acute with long claw, Avhite to pniple, 1*75 in. 

 long, '5 in. wide. Stamens 3-4 fertile, anthers linear-oblong, filaments 

 white, as long as the petuls. Ovary rei^ long-stalked, puberulous, ovules- 

 16-20, style stoutish '4 in. long, stignm rather Inrge oblique peltate. 

 Pod glabrous 8-12 in. long, '8-1 in. across, tardily dehiscing,, valves- 

 firm woody flat, rather pointed at both ends, stipe 1 in long. Seeds^ 

 J2-16, compressed, orbicular, '5 in. in diamw testa brown. Roxb. Bort. 

 Beng. 31; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XlII, 497;. Wall. Cat. 5797 in 

 part ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 320; W. & A. Prodr. 296 ; Bo^kl. Flor. Sylv. 

 92 • Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 284. B. triandra Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31 ;. 

 Wall. Cat. 5799; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 320.. B. coromandeUana 1X5. 

 Piodr. II, 515. Phanera purpurea Benth. PI. Jungh. 262 ; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, 60. 



Singapore ; Hullett 218 ! perhaps planted. Distrib .India ; Incb- 



China ; China. 



5. Bauhinia mollissima Wall. Cat. 5782 (1830). A rather slender 

 climber, usually small but sometimes reaching 60-80 feet in lengthy 

 branches slender persistently rusty-tomentose ; apparentliy always 

 without tendrils. Leaves roundish, base cordate, apex divided o*ie^tlur(J 

 down, sinus wide, lobes obtuse ; rigidly subcoriaceous, 4-6 in. long,, 

 rarely a little narrower than broad, bright-green ; above persistently pube- 

 rulous along the nerves, elsewhere densely papillose and velvety to the 

 touch but ultimately not hairy, beneath thinly persistently rusty-pubes- 

 cent; nerves 11-13; petiole 1-25-1-5 in., rusty.pubescent. Flowers in 

 leaf-opposed racemes, peduncle subterete •5-2-5 in. long, compressed 

 towards tip, densely rusty-tomentose, lower flowers usually deciduous, 

 bracts persistent ovate-acute under I in. long, pubescent externally, 



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