416 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



5. Bauhinia andrieiixii Hemsl. Diag. PI. Mex. 48, 1880. 

 Oaxaca ; type from the city of Oaxaca. 



Shrub with reddish brown branches ; leaves mostly 2 to 3 cm. wide, pubescent 

 beneath ; flowers few. 



6. Bauhinia ungulata L. Sp. PI. 374. 1753. 

 Pauletia inermis Cav. Icon. PI. 5: 6. pi. 1/09 . 1799. 

 Bauhinia inermis Pers. Syn. PI. 1: 455. 1805. 

 Bauhinia cavanillei Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 1 : 364. 1898. 

 Tepic to Veracruz, Tabasco, and Chiapas. Central America. 



Erect shrub or small tree, unarmed, the branches slender, reddisii brown ; 

 leaves 3 to 10 cm. wide, brown-pubescent and gland-dotted beneath ; flowers 

 4 to 5 cm. long, white or greenish; stamens white; fruit 15 to 20 cm. long, 

 about 1 cm. wide, minutely puberulent or glabrate. "Pato de venado " (Oaxaca. 

 Michoacan, Guerrero); " calzoncillo " (Tabasco); " casco de venado" (Costa 

 Rica); " cocla " (Panama). 



Leaves said to have sudorific properties. 



7. Bauhinia ramosissima Beuth. ; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 1 : 339. 1880. 

 Coahuila to Hidalgo ; type from Zimapiln, Hidalgo. 



Densely branched shrub ; leaflets about 1.5 cm. long, rounded at apex, bright 

 green, glabrous; flowei's 2.5 cm. long; fruit 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, short-stipitate. 



8. Bauhinia unguicularis Benth. ; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 1: 340. 1880. 

 Known only from the type locality, Zimapan, Hidalgo. 



' Densely branched shrub ; leaflets rounded at apex, glabrate ; petals 3 cm. 

 long, 



9. Bauhinia uniflora S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 21: 451. 1886. 

 Coahuila and San Luis Potosi; type from Jimulco, Coahuila. 



Large, densely branched shrub ; leaflets oval or rounded, glabrate, thick ; 

 flowers purplish, about 3 cm. long. 



10. Bauhinia dipetala Hemsl. Diag. PI. Mex. 48. 1880. 



Veracruz. Puebla, and Oaxaca ; type from Valley of Cordoba, A^eracruz. 



Shrub or small tree, 3 to 4.5 meters high ; leaves 3.5 to 12 cm. long, puberu- 

 lent or glabrate beneath, the lobes rounded or obtuse; flowers purplish, the 

 stamens long-exserted ; fruit about 15 cm. long and 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, long- 

 stipitate. 



11. Bauhinia jenningsii P. Wilson, Bull. Torrey Club 43: 463. 1916. 

 Yucatan. Isle of Pines, Cuba (type locality). 



Leaves ovate-oblong or ovate, sometimes subhastute, 4.5 to 10 cm. long, 

 acute or obtuse at apex, subcordate at base, pale beneath ; flowers about 1.5 

 cm. long ; fruit 8 cm. long and 1.2 cm. wide. 



13. Bauhinia macranthera Benth.; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 1: 338. 

 1880. 



Known only from the type locality, Zimaprm, Hidalgo. 



Leaves pubescent beneath, the lobes rounde<>; flowers subsolitary. the petals 

 3 cm. long ; fruit about 12 cm. long, glabrous. 

 13. Bauhinia retifolia Standi., sp. nov. 



Type from Kascon, San Luis Potosi {Purpus 5268; U. S. Nat. Herb, no, 

 463835), 



Young branches stout, ferruginous-tomentulose, unarmed ; petioles 1.5 to 2.5 

 cm. long, sparsely tomentose at first but soon glabrate; leaf blades 5.5 to 9.5 

 cm. long, 6 to 8 cm. wide, openly cordate or subcordate at base, 7 or 9-nerved, 

 I)ilobate at the apex for about one-third the total length, the lobes deltoid, ob- 

 tuse or rounded at apex, coriaceous, bright green, concolorous, the venation very 



