Bauliinia.'] L. LEGUMINOSJ:. (J. Cr. Baker.) 285 



A climbing glabrous shrub, with copious circinate tendrils. Leaves thin, deeply 

 cordate, 5-7-nerved, the cleft very variable, sometimes scarcely perceptible, some- 

 times a deep deltoid sinus and the points acupiinate. Racemes cylindrical, 2-6 in. 

 long, arranged in ample axillary and terminal panicles; bracts minute, linear; 

 .pedicels in., erecto-patent, finely downy. Calyx in. long, broadly campanulate, 

 with 5 deltoid teeth. Petals white, oblanceolate, twice the length of the calyx. Pod 

 thin, flat, oblong, glabrous, indehiscent, stalked, 1^-2 in. long, 1-2-seeded. 



SECT. 6. Casparea, DO. Calyx-tube fusiform; limb spathaceous. 

 Fertile stamen one. 



37. H. monandra, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2, 73. 



BIRMA, Dr. Brandis. 



Young branches puberulous, Leaves round-ovate, truncate at the base, palmately 

 11-nerved, chartaceous, l-l in. long, glabrous above, downy on the ribs below, cut 

 one-third down into two rounded lobes. Eacemes short, terminal, pubescent ; pedicels' 

 l-l in., densely puberulous ; bracts minute, subulate. Calyx downy externally. 

 Petals 1% in., obovate-cuneate, glabrous, undulated, probably whitish. Ovary stalked, 

 fulvo-villose ; style slender, twice as long as the ovary. Pod unknown. Ex Kurz 

 loc. cit. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



B. LTJCIDA, Wall. Cat. 5779 B (totally different from 5779 A), grown in the Cal- 

 cutta garden from Penang, has the fully divided leaves of section Lysipkyllum, but 

 the flower is unknown. The half-leaves are dimidiate cordate-ovate, twice 4is long as 

 broad, narrowed gradually to a point, rigidly subcoriaceous, 3-4-nerved, with the ribs 

 beneath clothed with adpressed ferruginous tomentum. It may be the Malayan 

 Phanera diptera, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 70. 



B. PIPERIFOLIA, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 327 (Phanera, Benth. PI. Jungh. 262), from the 

 mountain forests of Silhet, is said to be a climber with entire cordate 5-7-nerved 

 smooth lucid leaves, terminal panicles and 1-2-seeded round-oval pods. 



115. NEFTUNIA, Lour. 



Herbs without prickles. Leaves bipinnate, with persistent stipules and 

 numerous small strap-shaped sensitive membranous leaflets. Flowers minute, 

 dimorphous, in dense heads on axillary peduncles, polygamous, those of the 

 lower part of the head bearing only protruded flattened staminodia. Calyx 

 minute, campanulate, 5-toothed. Petals 5, strap-shaped, connate near the base. 

 Stamens of the perfect flowers exserted ; anthers gland-crested. Ovary stalked, 

 many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma club-shaped. Pod coriaceous, flattened, 

 ligufate or oblong, 2-valved. DISTRIB. Species 8 ; cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



1. N= oleracea, Lour. ; Benth. in Hook. Journ. iv. 354 ; stems almost 

 entirely prostrate, leaflets 16-30, sterile flowers numerous, pod oblique oblong 

 6-10-seeded. Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 84. Mimosa natang, Roxb. Cor. PI. 

 t. 119 ; Hort. Beng. 40 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 553. Desmanthiis natans, Willd. ; DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 444; Wall. Cat. 5295; W. $ A. Prodr. 270. D. lacustris and 

 stolonifer, DC. Prodr. loc. cit. 



NORTH WEST provinces, to CEYLON and MALACCA. DISTRIB. Cosmopolitan in 

 "tropics. 



Stems stout, amraal, wide-creeping, rarely throwing out'suberect branches, pro- 

 ducing copious. fibrottS rrwtlets from the same nodes that bear the leaves and 

 peduncles. Pinna 4-6, 2-3 in. long ; ^aclijs^landless ; leaflets glabrous, obtuse, g ^ 

 in. long. Peduncles ascending, |-1 ft. ; bractsfsmall, oA T ate, subobtuse. Staminodes 

 -\ in., strap-shaped, yellow. Corolla Jj in. Pod -J-l in. long, rostrate, dry, soon 

 dehiscing by the iipper suture. 



