408 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Bauhinia. 



7. BAUHINIA YAHLII, W. & A. 297 ; F. B. I. ii. 279. 



N. Circars, in forests down to the Godavari. 

 A gigantic climber with very thick stem and long branches 

 bearing cream-coloured flowers with shortly- clawed petals. 

 It is destructive to forest trees and has to be cut. The 

 leaves are used as plates and for many other purposes ; the 

 seeds are roasted and eaten. Yern. Hind. Mai j an ; Ur. 

 Shiali ; Tel. Adda. 



8. BAUHINIA PHOENICEA, Heyne ; F. B. I. ii. 283 ; W. & A. 

 296. B. Benthami, Bedd. Ic. t. 107. 



W. Ghats, from Coorg and Mysore to the Anamalais and 

 Travancore, in evergreen forests. 



A very large climber with brick-red flowers, the petals 

 with long slender claws, the anthers long. It is very 

 destructive to forest trees and has to be cut. 



9. BATJHINIA ANGUINA, Roxb. Cor. PL t, 285 ; F. B. I. ii. 284 

 W. & A. 298. 



Malabar and Travancore, near the coast, apparently 



scarce. Snake climber. 



A large very long climber with curious steins alternately 



twisted one way and the other between the straight 



margins. Vern. Naga-mu-valli (Bheede). 



Baiihinia acuminata, Linn., is a pretty shrub often found in 

 gardens in the plains. I have seen no specimens from wild 

 plants. B. rufescens, Lamk., is a tropical African species, 

 cultivated and perhaps run wild on the coast near Madras. 

 B. diphylla, Ham., is an extensively climbing Burmese species 

 sometimes found in Madras Gardens, and at once recognised 

 by its very small leaflets. B. monandra, Kurz, is a Madagascar 

 shrub or small tree, grown in gardens in Madras. 



70. Saraca, Linn. 



Trees or large shrubs. Leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets of 

 few pairs, coriaceous, stipules connate, intrapetiolar ; stipels 0. 

 Flowers showy, yellow orange or red, in short dense often lateral 

 corymbose panicles ; bracts small, deciduous ; bracteoles sub- 

 persistent, coloured. Calyx petaloid, tube elongate, cylindric, 

 enclosing a lobed disk ; lobes 4, ovate or oblong, imbricate. 

 Petals 0. 'Stamens usually 7, rarely 3-4; filaments long, filiform; 



