Bauhinza.] LegumiflOSCB. I 1 7 



duplicate, ii-i \ in., broader than long, truncate at base, cut 

 scarcely \ down into 2 broadly oval rounded lobes, glabrous 

 on both sides, whitish and 9-nerved from the base beneath, 

 with fine reticulate venation, rigid, petiole \-\ in. ; fl. small, 

 under 1 in., ped. shorter than cal, in erect lax racemes 

 terminating the new growth, buds pointed ; cal. reflexed 2 or 

 3-toothed at end ; pet. distant, small, strap -shaped, acute, 

 spreading ; stam. a little longer than pet. ; style none ; pod 

 shortly stalked, very long, 8-10 in. by f in. wide, pendulous, 

 tapering to base, blunt at apex, somewhat falcate, leathery, 

 indehiscent, glabrous, 12-20-seeded. 



Dry region; very common. Fl. April, June-September; yellowish 

 white. 



India, Malaya, and China. 



Wood rather heavy, hard, pale brownish-grey; attains a fair size. Very 

 strong fibre is obtained from the inner bark, used for rope-making. 



\B. ftiirfttwea, L., is commonly grown in gardens. There are specimens 

 in Hb. Kew, ' Peradeniya, Macrae ; ' hence it is given for Ceylon in 

 Fl. B. Ind., but it has no claim to nativity here.] 



3. *B. ang-uina, Roxb. Cor. PL iii. 82 (1819). 



Trirnen in Journ. fiot. xxiii. 144. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 284. Hort. Mai. viii. tt. 29-31. Roxb. Cor. PL t. 285. 



A very wide-spreading woody creeper, with the older stems 

 singularly compressed, and strongly curved in alternate direc- 

 tions between each node, so as to be serpentine, young shoots 

 glabrous with short lateral twigs, each one provided at about 

 1 \ in. from the base with a pair of opposite, stiff, flattened, 

 circinately curved, prehensile tendrils pubescent on upper 

 surface ; 1. numerous, rather large 5-6 in., ovate, more or less 

 cordate at base, acuminate, quite entire or more or less bifid 

 or bilobed at apex, glabrous and shining, dark green, petiole 

 1-3 in., stiff, slender, stip. very small, linear, obtuse, reflexed, 

 soon falling ; fl. and pod not seen (fl. minute in copiously 

 panicled racemes ; stam. 3 ; pod \\-2 in., oblong, indehiscent, 

 glabrous). 



Low country in the dry and intermediate regions; very rare, and 

 probably merely introduced. Foot of Uoluwe Kande, Kurunegala Dis- 

 trict; near Dambulla (Bower). 



Native of India and Malaya. 



I have seen no flowers. This great creeper has been long cultivated 

 in the Gardens, and is included in Moon's Catalogue, 1824. As the stems 

 readily root at the joints, it is easily propagated, and freely establishes 

 itself.' 



