Bauhinia.'] LEGUMINOSAE, 40& 



or in spreading or corymbose terminal panicles ; bracts and 

 bracteoles present, small, often caducous. Calyx-iube cylindric 

 or turbinate, lined by the disk ; limb entire and spathaceous 

 with 5 teeth or cleft into lobes. Petals 5, slightly unequal, erect 

 or spreading, imbricate, usually clawed, the upper petal innermost. 

 Stamens 10 or reduced to 5 or 3 or even 1 fertile, the rest sterile 

 or wanting; filaments free, filiform; anthers versatile, dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Ovary stalked, inany-ovuled ; style short or fili- 

 form ; stigma small or large and peltate, subterminal or oblique. 

 Pod linear or oblong, flattened, continuous within or rarely 

 septate, dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds orbicular or ovate, 

 compressed, albuminous. 



Fertile stamens 10 : 



Calyx spathaceous, 5-toothed at apex, the tube short; trees or 

 shrubs : 



Pod dehiscent, thin, *5-'7 in. broad; flowers large : 



Flowers yellow, the standard with a red blotch ; calyx- limb 

 ovate, '5 in. long ; leaflets 1-2 in. long, rounded at apex, 

 connate for about half their length ; pod 4-5 in. long, not 



ridged along the upper suture 1. tomentosa. 



Flowers white ; calyx-limb loi^g acuminate, 1-1*5 in. long ; 

 leaflets 3-6 in. long, acute at apex, connate for nearly 

 two- thirds with a mucro ; pod 4-5 in. long, ridged on each 



side along the upper suture acuminata. 



Pod indehiscent, thick, falcate ; flowers in lax racemes, small : 

 Leaflets connate for two-thirds of their length, 1-2 in. long, 

 rounded at apex; filaments '25 in. long, slender; pod 6-12 in. 



long, '7-1 in. broad 2. racemosa. 



Leaflets free or very shortly connate, under '75 in. long, 

 rounded at apex ; filaments '5 in. long, thick ; pod 3-4 in. long, 



*4 in. broad, twisted rufescens. 



Calyx-tube long, thin, pubescent, with 5 short lobes ; tree with 

 coriaceous, suborbicular, semicordate leaflets, glaucous beneath, 

 connate for three-fourths of length or even more ; flowers small 

 in axillary corymbs ; pod nearly straight, flattened, reticulate, 



beaked, 12-18 in. long, '75-1 in. broad 3. malabarica. 



Calyx-tube very long, leathery, as are the 5 narrow lobes, 1-1 '5 in. 

 long ; climbing shrub with tendrils and free, rounded, ovate, semi- 

 cordate leaflets 2-3-in. long ; flowers large, in. lax axillary racemes, 

 the petals narrow, the anthers very long ; pod very large, flat 



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