286 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



Seeds mostly five; compressed, wrinkled, roundish* 



Leaves rather hearted, two lobed; some with round- 

 ed, some with pointed, lobes. Flowers chiefly 

 purplish and rose-coloured, fragrant $ the sweet 

 and beautiful buds are eaten by the natives in 

 their savoury messes. We have seen many species 

 and varieties of this charming plant : one had race- 

 med flowers, with petals equal, expanding, lanced, 

 exquisitely white, with a rose-coloured stripe from 

 the base of each to its centre; anthers four only, 

 fertile ; six much shorter, s'teril ; a second had 

 three fertile, and seven very short, barren ; ano* 

 ther had light purple corols, with no more than 

 five filaments, three longer, coloured, curved, in -a 

 line of beauty. A noble Climbing Bauhinia was 

 lately sent from Nepal; with flowers racemed* 

 cream-coloured; style pink; germ villous: sta* 

 mens three filaments, with rudiments of two more $ 

 stem downy, four-furrowed, often spirally. Ten- 

 drils opposite, below the leaves. Leaves two- 

 lobed, extremely large : it is a stout climber up the 

 h ighest Arundo Ve'nu. T he Sanscrit name Man- 

 dara is erroneously applied to this plant in the first 

 volume of Van Rheepe. 



42. Capitt'ha: 



Syn. Grdhin, Dadhitt'ha, ManmaCha^ Dadhif hula , 

 Pushpap'hala, Dantas 'a? ha. 



Vulg. Cafh-beL 



Koen. Crateva, Valanga. 



Cal. Perianth five-parted, minute, deciduous j 



divisions expanded, acute. 



Cor. 



