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specimens ai-e said by Mr. Bcntbam to be from the Malay Archipelago, by Mr. Baker 

 to be from the Peninsulu ; we know, however, from Dr. Wallich's correspondence 

 th it the mijority of Fiiil.iysoii's specimens, more particularly those without any 

 definite locality, ca^uie from Siam. 



19. Bauhinia WiiAYi Plain. A shiul)T)y creeper 15-30 feet long, 

 witli slender glabrous branches and circulate glabrous teiidiils. Leaves 

 flexible, truncate veiy rarely cordate at the base, tapering from about 

 the middle to an ncute entire, very rarely an obtuse emarginate apex, 

 rather longer than broad, 2-3 in. long, 1"25-J75 in. across, medium- 

 green, glabrous above, glaucescent glabrous or faintly puberulous only 

 on tlie nerves beneath ; very uniformly 5-nerved ; petiole slender, glab- 

 rous, 'b-'Q in. long. Floivcrs in dense close-fld. terminal and axillary 

 racemes, 2*5-4 in. long, the lower flowers deciduous except the few that 

 become fertilised, the remaining terminal portion corymbose 2"5 in. long 

 and broad ; pedicels very slender, thickening in fruit, 1'35 in. long, 

 sparsely rusty as is the slightly nodose main-rachis, bracts subulate 

 •2 in. long, very deciduous; bud clove-shaped, only '2 in. long, the 

 spherical minutely apiculiite upper part in diameter equalling the leni^tli 

 of the slender cvlindric base. Cahjx glabrous, tube '15 in. long, limb 

 splitting into 5 spatliulate subequal lobes '15 in. long. Petals pale 

 greenisli-yellow, or white at length pinkish, broadly oblanceolate, long- 

 clawed, 6 in. long, '2 in. across, margins slightly wavy, sparsely pubes- 

 cent externally. Stamens 3 fertile, anthers shortly oblong. Ovary small, 

 3— i o^uled, distinctly st:alked, quite glabrous throughout, style "15 in. 

 long, stigma small peltate. Pod obovate to obLmg-obtuse, tapering to 

 base, thin, woo'ly, stipe "2 in. long, 2-3 in. long, 1 in. across, quite glab- 

 rous. See^ls 1—2, rarely 3, very much compressed, broadly ovate, '5 in. 

 long, '4i in. across, testa dark-l)rown, dull. 



Pbrak; Kanstler 2238! 246G ! 4049! 5243! Scortechini 1652! 

 Wray 1934! 2782! Selangou; Kuus tier 8758 \ 



Very distinct frcm any other Peninsular species, and by its inflorescence (in 

 whicli it most resembles B. integrlfolia among the Phaueras) connecting Phanera witli 

 Lasiohema, its small flowers approaching those of the latter section. It is extremf'ly 

 nearly allied to a Bornean species (represented by Mottley n. 376 and Havdand n. 

 95) which differs in having deeply cordate leaves, in having quite glabrous pedicels, 

 and in having the petals, though similarly crenulate, larger and almost glabrous. 

 It is just possible that the Borneo plant may be the lost 3. cordifolia Koxb. 



20. Badhin[A integrifolia Roxb. Hort. Beng. 90. A large climber 

 over 100 feet long, branches slemler rusty-puberiilous, tendrils circinate 

 rusty. Leaves usually deeply cordate, always about as long as broad, 

 mostly 4-6 in. across and with a deltoid apical sinus ■4-"6 in. deep; 

 the leaves in the region of inflorescences usually small 1*25 in. long, 1 

 in. across, not iufn^quontly entire; the leaves on young root-shoots 



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