258 XLV. LEGUMINOSiE [Bauhinia 



Subhimalayan tract from the Bias to Nepal, ascending to 4,500 ft., chiefly near 

 •water. Chota Nagpore, common. Central India, south to the Godavery. Fl. Sept. 

 Oct. A gum exudes from the bark. 



11. B. purpurea, Linn. ; Brandis F. Fl. 160. Vern. Kolar, Pb. ; Khairival, 

 Gairal, EiciUar, Koinar, Hind. ; Kanchan, Tel. ; Sand, Eanchivala, Kan. 



A middle-sized tree, heart-wood brown, hard, durable. L. coriaceous, cleft 

 about half-way down, lobes often overlapping along the inner margins. 

 Racemes short, in terminal panicles. Fl. deep pink, sometimes white {B. 

 triandra, Roxb.) ; pedicels bracteolate, £-| in. Calyx-tube obconical, \ in. 

 long, limb twice the length of tube, cleft to the base into two reflexed segments, 

 one emarginate, the other 3-toothed. Petals oblanceolate. Fertile stamens 3, 

 occasionally 4. Pod 6-12 in. long. 



Subhimalayan tract, from the Indus eastwards, ascending to 5,000 ft. Assam, 

 Khasi hills, Chittagong, "Western Peninsula, in deciduous forests. Not indigenous in 

 Burma or in Ceylon. Cultivated largely. Fl. Sept.-Nov. 



12. B. variegata, Linn. ; Kanjilal P. PL 139. Vern. Kachnar, Hind. ; 

 Kanchan, Mar. ; Bodantham, Mandari, Tel. 



A deciduous middle-sized tree, with irregular masses of dark-coloured wood 

 near the centre. L. as long as broad, 11-15-nerved, leaflets connate 

 beyond the middle. PI. large, almost sessile, in short few-fld. racemes, 2 

 varieties, one with purple flowers (4 petals light purple, the 5th and larger deep 

 purple), the other with white flowers (B. Candida, Roxb.), the 5th petal varie- 

 gated with yellowish-green or dark purple. Calyx-tube cylindric, as long as 

 the ovate spathaceous 5-toothed limb. Petals obovate or oblanceolate, 2 in. 

 long. Pod 6-10 in. long. Perfect stamens 5, rarely less. 



Subhimalayan tract from the Indus eastwards. Assam, Burma, Western Peninsula. 

 Cultivated largely. Fl. Febr.-May, generally while the tree is leafless. 13. B. 

 velutina, Wall. Imperfectly known, Tavo'y and Mergui. Branchlets, petioles, under- 

 side of 1. and inflorescence clothed with minute, generally grey pubescence. 

 Racemes axillary, few-fld., corymbose. Calyx-tube cylindric, 1 in. long, segments 5 

 linear, as long as or a little longer than tube. Petals as long as sepals, blade obovate 

 on a long narrow claw. B. monandra, K/urz, is not a native of British India (Prain in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 [1898] 505). 



D. Fertile stamens 3, sometimes 4 or 5. Climbers. 

 (a) PL in dense corymbs or corymbose panicles. 



14. B. Vahlii, Wight et Arn. ; Kanjilal P. PL 138. Vern. Taur, Pb. ; 

 Malo, Maljhan, Maurain, Maulein, Mahul, Hind.; Rung, Kol; Maljan, 

 Chambal, Mar.; ShiaJi, Uriya ; Tliaur, .Grond. ; Madapu, Tel.; Ani padu, 

 Hcpparige, Kan. 



A gigantic climber, stem irregularly ridged and furrowed, often 100 ft. long 

 and 2 ft. diam. A cross section shows numerous irregularly shaped masses of 

 xylem, consisting mainly of large vessels, arranged in more or less concentric 

 bands and separated by red juicy bark-like tissue, the structure of which is 

 not yet sufficiently known. Branchlets, tendrils, petioles, underside of leaves 

 and inflorescence clothed with dense ferruginous, rarely grey tomentum. L. 

 deeply cordate, variable in size, often up to 18 in. diam., cleft to about one- 

 third of their length, lobes obtuse, basal nerves 11-15, petiole stout. Tendrils 

 axillary, often fl. -bearing, forked, bifurcations circinnate. PL creamy- 

 white on long slender pedicels, in terminal corymbose racemes. Calyx-tube 

 shorter than the 2-lobed limb. Petals densely hairy, 1-1 \ in. long. Stamens 

 3. Ovary hairy. Pod flat, woody, clothed with dense brown felt, 9-18 by 

 2-3 in., bursting open with a loud report. 



Subhimalayan tract and outer valleys ascending to 3,000 ft., from the Chenab east- 

 wards, chiefly in Sal forests. Assam, Behar, Western Peninsula, chiefly on the west 

 side. Fl. April-June. The most destructive climber to Sal and other trees, hence 

 effectually exterminated in many forest tracts. Growth of climbing shoots extremely 



