188 Materials for a Flora of tlic Malayan Pemvsnla. 



' Lid. ir, 279. Phanera Udentata Benth. PI. Jungh. 263 ; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, 64. 



Perak; Scortediini m\ 248! Wray 3628! 7r«m.sfZer 803 ! 1000! 

 3130! 3183! 3528! 4797! 6533! Penang ; Porter (Wall. Cat. 5778)! 

 Ilullett 181 ! KunsUer 1300 ! Gnrlis 136 ! Selangor ; Tlidley 318 ! Johore ; 

 King! HnllettSSSl Distrib. Sumatra {Forbes!}; Philippines. • 

 Nenrest to B. cornifolia Bak. 



15. Bauhinia lucida Wall Cat. 5779 A. A large creeper more 

 tliaii 100 feet long, with stoutish glabrous bianclies ; tendrils long 

 circinate glabrous. Leaves usually distinctly cordate nt the base, 

 tapering from below the middle to an ultimately nbrnptly shortly acu- 

 minate point; lathcr longer than brond, 3-5 in. long. 2-25 in. wide, 

 rigidly subcoiiaceous, bright-green shining above, glabrous on both sur- 

 fjices, 5- (rarely 7-) nerved ; petiole "B-^ in. hmg, glabrous. Floivers in 

 lax long-peduncled copious paniculate racemes, terminal and extending 

 into the axils of the upper leaves, 4-6 in. long, 2 in. across ; pedicels 

 rusty-pubeiulous, erecto-patent, snbequal thronghout the raceme, rarely 

 exceedir.g 75 in. long, bracts lanceolate, deciduous, '2 in. long, bracteoles 

 2 snbpersi'^;tent, subopposite, subulate, "15 in. long, near base of cal^^x- 

 tube; bud clove-shnped, the subcylindric base as long as the obovoid 

 blunt upper portion. Calyx closely rnsty-tomenlose, limb splitting into 

 subequal ovate-obtuse lobes '25 in. long, 2 in. across ; tube subcylindric 

 •25 in. long. Petals subeqnal, bright-yellowy ovate-oblong, long-clawed, 

 "8 in. long, "5 in. across, externally rusty-pnbescent. Slamens 3 fei-tile, 

 anthers shortly oblong. Ovary glabrous except on sutures near the 

 base, stalk distinct pubescent; style •]5 in. long, glabrous, stigma large 

 peltate. Pud narrowly oblong, woody, 35 in. long, 1 in. wide, narrow- 

 ing towards <he base, valves glabrous ; stipe "25 in. long, rusty-pubescent. 

 S''eds 4-6, irregularly orbicular, compressed, "4 in. across. Bauhinia 

 emarginata Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 278 not of Mill, and hardly of 

 .lack. Phanera Z^cuZa Benth PI. Jungh. 262. 



Penang; Porter {Wall. Cat. 5779) ! Perak; Wray 2127 ! Scortechini 

 66 ! J 534 ! Kuustler 3434 ! 3902 ! 6659 ! 



Mr. Bentliam and Mr. Baker both refer to tliia species B. emarginata Jack, from 

 Sinnatra. Bnt J.ick's plant has, by the original description, corymbose racemes 

 with long pedicelled flo\Ters and has tomentose ovaries. It: is therefore quite clenr 

 tlint it cannot be the snme as B. lucida Wall. In any case the nse of the name 

 ' emarginata^ is to be deprecated, seeing tliat it was applied to a Mexican species (B. 

 enntrginata Mill. Diet., ed. VIIT, 5j before Jack's name was published. 



16. Bauhinia Scortecitinfi Prain. A large climber with slender 

 branches, glabrous except at the rust^^-pnberulous tips, tendnls long 

 circinate puberulous. Leaves one and a half times as long as broad, 



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