290 xlvii. § cassALPiNiE^ (oliver). [Bauhinia. 



lobes at length sometimes partially free. Petals linear-oval, narrowed 

 to each end, penniveined from a broad obscure midrib. Stamens 10, 

 all perfect; filaments slender with a hairy tuft on the inner side at the 

 base; anthers oblong-, thinly pilose. Ovules 7-10-12. Style much 

 shorter than the ovary, or stigma subsessile. Legume several-seeded, 

 linear, coriaceous, but slightly turgid, valves faintly depressed between 

 the seeds when dry, often curved or falcate, apiculate, narrowed at the 

 base into a gynophore of J— J in., l|-3^ in. long, |— J in. broad. Seeds 

 shining, compressed, albuminous ; cotyledons flat. — B. parvifolia, 

 Hochst. in Hb. Nub. Kotsch. ; Fielding et Gardner, Sert. PL t. x. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Gambia, Whitfield! Borgu (in a town 

 only), Barter I 



North Central. Kouka, E. Yogel ! 



Nile Land. Nubia, Sennaar, Kotschy ! and others. Abyssinia, Bahr-el-Abiad, 

 (Schweinf. et Asch. Enum.). 



With this species Dr. Schweinfurth identifies Senegambian specimens distributed 

 under the unpublished name of B. divaricata, Guillemin. 



9. B. tomentosa, L. ; DC. Prod. ii. 514. Shrub with slender pu- 

 bescent or puberulous often pendulous branches. Leaves membranous, 

 usually 1J— 3 in. broad, in some forms considerably smaller, in others 

 larger, base cordate with a broad shallow sinus or truncate, usually 

 7-nerved, with a bilobed glandular disk at the insertion of the petiole ; 

 leaflets rounded above and below, connate J-| their length, glabrous 

 above, paler or somewhat glaucous minutely tomentose pubescent or 

 glabrate beneath ; petiole usually J— 1 in. Stipules subulate. Flowers 

 showy yellow, in few-flowered terminal corymbs or on 1-2-flowered 

 leaf-opposed peduncles. Calyx-tube short funnel-shaped } in. long or 

 less, limb spathaceous, exceeding the tube. Petals 1-2J in. long, 

 obovate or obcordate, subsessile or shortly clawed, venation divergent 

 not prominent. Stamens 10, unequal, all antheriferous, filaments fili- 

 form. Gynophore short, rarely exceeding |-J in. Style elongate; 

 stigma capitate. Legumes coriaceous, much compressed or flat,' often 

 6-12-seeded, broadly linear, acuminate or cuspidate, often narrowed 

 at the base. — Bot. Mag. 5560 (var. glabrata)-, B. Mucora, Bolle in 

 Peter's Mossamb. Bot. 22 ; Alvesia bauhinioides, Welw. Apont. Phyto- 

 geogr. No. 47. 



Lower Guinea. Mr. Monteiro ! Pungo Andongo, Loanda, and Golungo Alto, 

 Dr. Welwitsch! 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! 



Also in Natal and in Tropical Asia. 



Dr. Welwitsch collected on the Sugar-loaf Mountain, Sierra Leone, a specimen of 

 B. acuminata (L.), Wt. and Am., an Indian species.; most likely introduced. It 

 differs from B. tomentosa in its pointed leaflets, and smaller flowers with oval or ob- 

 lanceolate penniveined petals. 



10. B. articulata, DC. Prod. ii. 515. A spreading tree ; extremi- 

 ties unarmed, rusty-tomentose or pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, usually 

 3—5 in. broad, 11- or 9-veined, with a conspicuous bilobed gland when 

 dry at the broadly cordate base ; leaflets connate, §— J of their length, 



