442 BENGAL PLANTS. [Baw 
672. BAUHINIA VARIEGATA Linn: ; Fe Ie ii, 819: FB a 
. candida F., I. ii. 318, 
Chota Nagpur; Behar; seo N. Bengal; Chittagong; 
in other provinces often plant F 
A medium-sized tree; the aaa vary a good deal in 
colour; those trees with pure white flowers constitute 
B. candida Roxb. Beng. Rakto kanchan, swet 
chan; Hind. Khairwal; Kol. Singya; Santal. Jingya; 
Uriya Borara. 
673. BAUHINIA PURPUREA rag F, I. ii. 320; F. B. I. ii, 284. 
B. triandra F. 1. i 
Chota Nagpur ; te ; N. and E. Bengal; in other pro- 
vinees often plante 
A medium-sized ‘eo the flowers are of two colours, 
purplish-pink and pale purple. The trees with purplish: 
pink flowers, which only occasionally occur and are 
always sibeiielly constitute the true B. purpurea; 
pale-flowered trees constitute B. triandra Roxb., whic 
is more commonly planted than the other, and is o 
oe wild form in our area. Hind. Kaliari; Beng. Koiral, 
va kanchan ; Santal. Singyara. 
674, Pediat MONANDRA Kurz; F. B. I. ii. 285. 
Occasionally planted. 
A shrub ; Gattis of of Madagascar. Beng. Belati kanchan. 
280. Cynometra Linn. 
Trees or large shrubs; leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets few, wae 
site, coriaceous; stipules caducous; stipels 0. Flowers smal 
ovate, dry, imbricate, at length deciduous, decreasing — 
bracteoles 0 or membranous and coloured. Sepals — 
rarely 5, connate in a very short tube with subbasal disk; a 
oblong, imbricate, at length reflexed. Petals 5, almost ne 
Sonera Bese ee: or the 2 lowest smaller. Stamens 
rarely many; filaments free, filiform, exserted; anthers sm 
oblong, ‘ats atile e; dehiscence longitudinal. Ovary sessile OF le 
shortly stipitate, 2-ovuled, free or ce roe ee to disk ; sty 
form ; stigma terminal, capitate or trun Fruit at 
slightly ovoid or subreniform, indehiscent ae or ee 
pod, with very thick, iongh, somewhat fleshy pericarp Si 
