284 L. LEGUMINOS^:. (J. G. Baker.) [Bauliinia. 



Ghauts of TRAVANCORE and CANADA. 



An extensive climber, with slender branches, clothed at first with fine ferruginous 

 pubescence. Leaves rigidly subcoriaceous, slightly cordate, thinly silky on the ribs 

 when young, the obtuse lobes reaching - down. Eacemes few-flowered, short-pe- 

 duncled, axillary and terminal. Calyx-tube -| in. Fertile stamens 5. Petals 

 oblanceolate, with a distinct claw as long as the limb. Ovary densely rusty-downy, 

 with a long style and stalk and small stigma. Pod flat, finely rusty-downy, | ft. long, 

 an inch broad, with a raised rib on either side of the upper suture. 



34. B. purpurea, Linn.; Roxb. Hort. Bang. 31; Fl. Ind. ii. 320; 

 ecirrhose, leaves 9-11-nerved, pubescence grey, pedicels short, sepals not fully 

 distinct exceeding the turbinate tube, petals oblanceolate glabrous exserted. 

 Hani, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 497 ; Wall. Cat. 5797, excl. A, 12, I, ex parte ; 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 296 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 92, non DC. B. triandra, Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 31 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 320 ; Wall. Cat. 5799. B. coroinandeliana, DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 515. Phanera purpurea, Benth. PL Jungn. 262. 



From the foot of the WEST HIMALAYAS and KHASIA Mts. (alt. 4000 ft.), to CEYLON 

 and PENANG. DISTRIB. China. 



A middle-sized erect tree, with moderately stout glabrescent branchlets. Leaves 

 rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous, shallowly cordate, the lobes obtuse or subacute, reach- 

 ing j- way down. Flowers in terminal and axillary short-peduncled few-flowered 

 corymbs ; bracts minute, deltoid ; lower pedicels - in. Ca/p>tube -4 in. ; limb 

 f 1 in., coriaceous, slit into two valves, which show a division into 5 teeth. Petals 

 oblanceolate, with a long claw, reddish, twice the calyx. Fertile stamens 3-4. Ovary 

 grey downy, with a long stalk and style and moderately large oblique stigma. Pod 

 -1 ft, by f-1 in., firm, flat, glabrous, late in dehiscing, rather decurved, 12-15- 

 seeded. 



35. B. varieg-ata, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 514; ecirrhose, leaves 9-11- 

 nerved, pubescence grey, pedicels short, calyx-limb entire spathaceous equall- 

 ing the cylindrical tube, petals glabrous obovate clawed much exserted. Ham. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 496 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 319 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 5795 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 92. B. purpurea, Wall. Cat. 5797, ex parte. B. 

 Candida, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 318 ; Wall Cat. 5796, non Ait. 

 Phanera variegata, Benth. PL Jungh. 262. 



From the foot of the WESTERN HIMALAYAS, and SIKKIM, alt. 4000 ft., and through 

 India proper, to BIRMA. DISTRIB. China. 



General habit of the last, to which it is closely allied. Leaves rather broader than 

 deep, middle-sized, rigidly subcoriaceous, deeply cordate, the obtuse lobes reaching 



ydown. Corymbs few-flowered, lateral, sessile or short-peduncled; bracts minute, 

 ;oid ; pedicels erecto-patent, \-% in. Calyx-tube f-1 in. ; limb cordate-ovate, 

 remaining to the end spathaceous and entire. Petals 1^-2 in. long, an inch or more broad, 

 white, beautifully variegated with red and yellow, sometimes pure white (B. Candida, 

 Roxb.) Stamens 3-5. Ovary with a long stalk and style and a minute stigma. Pod 

 -1 ft. long, f-1 in. broad, hard, flat, glabrous, rather decurved, dehiscent, 10-15- 

 seeded. 



SECT. 5. Lasiobema, Korthals, gen. Fertile stamens 3. Calyx-tube 

 scarcely any. flowers minute, in copiously panicled racemes. 



36. B. ang-uina, Roxb. Cor. PL iii. t. 285 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 328 ; DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 516 ; Wall. Cat. 5773 ; W. fy A. Prodr. 298. B. scandens, Linn. Sp. Plant, 

 edit. i. 374, ex parte (Rheede Hort. Mai. viii. t. 30-31). Lasiobema anguina and 

 Horsfieldii, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 71. 



From EASTERN BENGAL and SIKKIM to BIRMA and EASTERN and WESTERN 

 PENINSULA. DISTRIB. Malay isles. 



