Frutex scandens, ramulis innorescentiis et petioiis et loius suotus insigni- 

 ter rubiginoso-villosis, ramis vetustioribus glabrescentibiis; foliis subcoria- 

 ceis^ integris, breviter petiolatis, ovatis, 5-7 cm. longis, 3.5-7 S cm latis 



Desniodiuiu Iriangulare (Relz.) comb. nov. 

 Hedysarum triangvlare Retz. Obs. 3: 40. 1783. 

 Hedysarum cepkalotes Roxb. Hort. Beng. 57. 1S14, nomcii niidum, FI. Ind. éd. 



2, 3: 360. 1832. 

 Desmodium cepkalotes Loud. Hort. Brit. 310. 1830, nomen nudiim, Wall. List no. 



5721. 1832; Gagnep. in Lecomte, FI. Gén. Indo-Chine 2: 573. 1920. 

 Dendrolobium Iriangulare Schindl. Repert. Sp. Nov. 20: 279. 1824. 

 Retzius' spécifie name is the oldest one for this widely distributed Asiatic 

 species, whether it be retained in Desmodium or placed in the generic segre- 

 gate Dendrolobium where Schindler disposes of it. 



Bauhinia bracleala Grah. ex Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2: 282. 1878; Craib, 

 FI. Siam. Enum. 1: 517. 1928; Gagnep. in Lecomte, FI. Gén. Indo-Chine 2: 149. 

 1913. 

 Bauhinia unguiculata Baker, op. cit. 277 ; Gagnep. op. cit. 150. 



Bauhinia Harmandiana Pierre ex Gagnep. Not. Syst. 2: 172, 1912 ; Lecomte, FI. Gén. 

 Indo-Chine 2: 128. 1913. 



Craib's investigation of the confusion that has existed in référence to the 

 status of Bauhinia bracteata Grah., B. Heljeri Craib, and B. unguiculata 

 Baker results in the réduction of the Indo-Chinese list of Bauhinia by two 

 species; see his note, Ke». Bull. 1924: 93. 1924, sub B. Heljeri Craib, in 

 nota. Siam and Indo-China. 



Bauhinia coccinea (Lour.) DC. Prodr. 2: 516. 1825; Merr. Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. 

 II. 24(2): 188. 1935. 



Phanera coccinea Lour. FI. Cochinch. 37. 1790, éd. 2, 47. 1793; Moore, Jour. Bot. 

 63: 247. 1925. 



Indo-China, Annam, Mount Bana, Clemens 4254, May-July 1927, a great liana 

 covering the highest 'rees with a mass of unusually large brilliant red flowers. 



This is a most. emarkable species with unusually large flowers, about 13 

 cm. in diameter^ ntirely différent from any of the forms admitted by Gagne- 

 pain, but an In( j-Chinese species overlooked by him, falling in his section I 

 (ovaries pubescent, not glabrous). The conspicuous latéral appendages to 

 the claws of the standard are more or less lacerate and up to 1 cm. long 

 along the upper ^ to J^ of the claw. The long stipitate ovaries and the 

 styles are densely appressed pubescent with short, shining brownish-red 

 hairs. The sepals are linear-lanceôlate or narrowly strap shaped, 3-3.5 cm. 

 long, 3 mm. wide, sharply acute or slightly acuminate, appressed pubescent 

 outside. The calyx tube, in bud, is 1.5 cm. long, 2-i mm. wide, slightly 

 sulcate, pubescent, the bud excluding the tube, cylindric, 3 cm. long, about 

 8 mm. in diameter. This most striking species is the type of the subgenus 

 Pluinrm and is at oresent known onlv from the original collertinn maHp in 



