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Pod longer, 3-5-seeded ... ... ... 23. JB. Curtisii. 



Calyx-limb entire ; petals red ; pods large densely pubes- 

 cent (3-5-seeded) ; leaves rigid, entire ... ... 24. B. strychnoidea. 



§ 1. Lysiphytlum Benth. Fertile stamens 10. Calyx with a 

 long tube and 5-cleft limb. Pod broad indehiscent. Leaflets distinct. 



1. Bauhinia diphylla Ham. in Syme, Embassy 476 c. Ic. (1800). 

 A very extensive glabrous twining species with circina-te tendrils, 

 sometimes spreading 200-300 feet or further. Leaves cordate at base ; 

 leaflets always quite free, each 5-6-nerved, flexible, rounded at both ends, 

 wider below, 3 in. long, 2 in across, pale-green glabrous on both surfaces; 

 petiole glabrous -'75-1 25 in. long, sligbtly thickened at both ends. 

 Flowers very large, in lax terminal racemes 8-12 in. long, pedicels glab- 

 rous ascending 1*5-2 in. long, bracts small ovate squamous; buds 2 in. 

 long fusiform. Calyx thickly coriaceous, green, glabrous, limb cut to 

 base into 5 lanceolate equal reflexed segments 1*2 in. long, tube "8 in. 

 long very slightly infundibuliform. Petals lanceolate erect, clawed, 

 equal, as long as calyx-lobes, "4 in. wide, white, faintly veined. Stamens 

 10, all fertile, equal, anthers linear, filaments as long as petals, glabrous. 

 Ovary glabrous very long-stalked, style "5 in. long, somewhat incurved. 

 Pod very large, thin and flat, 10-16 in. long, 3 in. wide, stipe 2 in. long, 

 rather finely transversely veined. Seeds 30-40 in a row along the 

 middle of the pod, oval, somewhat compressed, *5 in. long, -3 in. across, 

 •2 in. thick, testa pale-brown shining. Wall. Cat. 5784 ; Bak. in Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. II, 278. Bauhinia Buchanani Desv. Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. I, 

 IX, 430. Phanera diphylla Benth. PL Jungh. 264. 



Malacca ; Griffith (fide Baker). Distrib. Burma ; S. India. 



This species is extremely plentiful in Burma but has never been sent to Calcutta 

 from Malaya. It is inserted on the authority of Mr. Baker in the Flora of British 

 India II, 278. 



§ 2. Paut.etia Cav. Fertile stamens 10. Calyx with very short 

 tube and spathaceous limb. Pod narrow dehiscent. Erect shrubs with 

 large showy flowers and connate leaflets. 



2. Bauhinia tomentosa Linn. Sp. PL 375. An erect shrub with 

 downy zig-zag rounded branches. Leaves truncate at base, flexible, 

 rather broader than long, 2-2*5 in. wide, 7-9-nerved, cut three-sevenths 

 down into two rounded obtuse or faintly acute lobes, shining glabrous 

 above, closely pnbescent beneath ; petiole pubescent, slightly grooved 

 above, thickened at both ends, *5 in. long. Flowers in short-peduncled 

 leaf -opposed 2-fld. (rarely 1- or 3-fld.) peduncles '4-l'2 in. long, pedicels 

 erect 2 in. long, 2-bracteolate, bracts linear "25 in. long ; buds narrowly 

 ovate-acute, '7 in. long, the tip very shortly subulately 5-lobed. Calyx 

 green, finely closely pubescent, splitting spathaceously to the base of 



