Bauhinia.~\ L. LEGUMINOS^E. (J. G. Baker.) 281 



22. B. elong ata, Korthals in Nat. Verh. Bot. 89. t. 24 ; ecirrhose, pubes- 

 cence thin dark ferruginous, leaf-lobes obtuse, pedicels short, calyx-tube cylindri- 

 cal, petals oblanceolate glabrous little exserted. B. mollissima, Wall. Cat. 5782. 

 Phanera elongata, Benth. PL Jungh. 262. 



PENANG, Wallich. BIRMA, Maingay. DISTEIB. Malay isles. 



Branchlets, pedicels and calyx clothed persistently with fine ferruginous tomentum. 

 Leaves rigidly subcoriaceous, deeply cordate, 11-13-nerved, 4-6 in. long, with an open 

 sinus reaching about down. Corymbs sessile, few-flowered, axillary ; bracts small, 

 larceolate, subpersistent ; pedicels erecto-patent, lower | | in. Co^r-tube slender, 

 |-1 in. ; sepals as long as the tube, distinct, lanceolate. Petals oblanceolate, clawed. 

 Ovary tomentose, narrowed into a very long stalk and style, stigma small. 



**** Leaves deeply cleft, with acute or subacute lobes, nearly or quite glabrous 

 beneath when mature. 



23. B. ornata, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2, 72 ; ecirrliose, 

 leaves 9-11-nerved, pubescence ferruginous, pedicels long, flowers small, calyx- 

 tube short turbinate, sepals 5 rather exceeding the tube, petals slightly exserted. 



PEGU, Kurz. 



Branchlets clothed with deciduous bright ferruginous silky pubescence. Leaves 

 deeply cordate, firm, membranous, reaching nearly a foot long, the acute contiguous 

 lobes reaching half way down or more, the slender veins clothed at first with ferru- 

 ginous hairs. Flowers in dense rounded peduncled simple terminal corymbs ; bracts 

 small, lanceolate, tomentose, persistent; pedicels slender, an inch long, clothed with 

 short spreading hairs ; lower deflexed. Calyx thinly silky ; tube in. ; limb reflexed, 

 membranous, irregularly cleft. Petals in., oblong, clawed, silky on the back. 

 Stamens 3. Ovary subsessile, densely rusty- silky ; style f- in., stigma small 

 pilose. 



24. B. khasiana, Baker, eciurhose, leaves 9-11-nerved, pubescence 

 dense bright ferruginous, pedicels long, calyx-tube cylindrical-turbinate, limb 

 5-cleft as long as the tube, petals slightly exserted. 



KHASIA hills, alt. 1-3000 ft., Hook.fil. $ Thomson. 



A climber, with branchlets clothed with bright rusty silky pubescence. Leaves 

 cordate, large, thin, glabrous, the divergent subacute lobes reaching about a third 

 down. Flowers in numerous contiguous short-peduncled corymbs, forming a broad 

 terminal corymbose panicle, the lower branches subtended by large leaves ; pedicels 

 ascending, 1-H in. long, like the calyx densely clothed with very bright rusty silky 

 pubescence; bracts caducous. Ca/yar-tube \-^ in. ; bud subglobose; limb irregularly 

 cleft. Petals obovate, clawed, densely silky on the back. Stamens 3. Ovary short- 

 stalked, densely rusty-silky ; style short, stigma small. 



25. B. glabrifolia, Baker ; ecirrhose, leaves 9-nerved, pubescence thin 

 grey, pedicels long, flowers small, calyx-tube turbinate, limb rather exceeding 

 tube, petals little exserted. Phanera glabrifolia, Benth. PI. Jungh. 263. 



TENASSERIM, Heifer, and sent from the Calcutta gardens as B. piperifolia. 



Branchlets slender, at first finely grey-silky. Leaves shallowly cordate, rigidly sub- 

 coriaceous, glabrous, shining above, moderately large, the acute lobes reaching - 

 down. Flowers in dense many-flowered, short-peduncled corymbs, forming a broad 

 terminal corymbose panicle ; bracts minute, lanceolate ; pedicels slender, ascending ; 

 lower f-1 in., clothed like the calyx with adpressed grey silky pubescence. Calyx- 

 tube in. ; bud globose ; limb not usually fully 5-cleft. Petals obovate, clawed, 

 densely silky on the back. Ovary glabrous, short-stalked; style produced, stigma 

 small. 



26. B. macrostachya, Wall. Cat. 5774 ; cirrhose, leaves 9-nerved, pu- 

 bescence thin grey, pedicels moderately long, calyx-tube turbinate very oblique, 



