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

 FI. Siam. Enum. 1: .ïl7. 192S; Gagncp. in Lecomte, FI. Gén. Indo-Chine 2: 149. 



1913. >?iMA..^cZi2^3: /^c/^/t-Z 



Batihinia 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 

 si>ecies; see his note, Kew Bull. 1924: 93. 1924, sub B. Heljeri Craib, in 

 nota. Siam and Indo-China. 



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

 II. 24(2): 188. 1935. 



Pkanera coccinea Lour, Fi. Cochinch. 37. 1700, éd. 2, 47. 1793; Moore, Jour. Bot. 

 63: 247. 1925. 'Me/u. ^^^ ^J .' ^J^û • /^^-2. 



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

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



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

 cm. in diameter, entirely différent from any of the forms admitted by Gagne- 

 pain, but an Indo-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 yi to -/s oi the claw. The long stipitate ovaries and the 

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

 hairs. The sepals are linear-lanceolate 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, 2-3 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 

 Phanera and is at présent known only from the original collection made in 

 the latter part of the eighteenth century and the Clemens collection of 1927. 



