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Calyx-tube usually more or less produced ; limb 5 cleft or, very rarely, 

 spathaceous. Erect or scandent; flowers variable in size. 



4. Badhinea purpurea Linn. Sp. PI. 375. An erect tree 20-30 

 feet high, with moderately stout glabrescent branches and without 

 tendrils. Leaves roundish, base shallowly cordate, apex divided one- 

 third to one-half down, sinus wideish, lobes rounded obtuse or subacute ; 

 rigidly subcoriaceous, 4-6 in. long and broad, medium green, glabrous 

 above, paler and glabrous or faintly puberulous beneath ; nerves 9-11 ; 

 petiole 1*5 in. glabrous; stipules small membranous, triangular, *1 in. 

 long, deciduous. Flowers in terminal and axillary short- ped uncled few- 

 fld. corymbs, 2-4 in. long; lower pedicels '25-'5 in. long, puberulous 

 as is the rachis, bracts minute deltoid, deciduous ; buds elavate 15 in. 

 long, taperiug uniformly from the blunt apex to the base. Calyx tawny- 

 downy, limb *9 in. long-, splitting into 2 coriaceous valves slightly divided 

 at the apex into 5 short teeth, tube slightly dilated upwards 6 in. long-. 

 Petals 5, oblanceolate acute with long claw, white to purple, 1*75 in. 

 long, *5 in. wide. Stamens 3^4 fertile, anthers linear-oblong, filaments 

 white, as long as the petals. Ovary very long-stalked, puberulous, ovules 

 16-20, style stoutish "4 in. long, stigma rather large oblique peltate. 

 Pod glabrous 8-12 in. long, *8-l in. across, tardily dehiscing, valves 

 firm woody flat, rather pointed at both ends, stipe 1 in long. Seeds 

 J 2-1 6, compressed, orbicular, *5 in. in diam. testa brown. Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 31 ; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, 497 ; Wall. Cat. 5797 in 

 part ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 320; W. & A. Prodr. 296 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylv. 

 92 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 284. B. triandra Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 5799; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 320. B. coromandeliana DC. 

 Prodr. II, 515. Phaner a purpurea Benth. PI. Jungh. 262 ; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, 60. 



Singapore ; Hullett 218 I perhaps planted. DiSTRiB.India ; Indo- 

 China ; China. 



5. Bauhinia mollissima Wall. Cat. 5782 (1830). A rather slender 

 climber, usually small but sometimes reaching 60-80 feet in length, 

 branches slender persistently rusty-tomentose ; apparently always 

 without tendrils. Leaves roundish, base cordate, apex divided one- third 

 down, sinus wide, lobes obtuse ; rigidly subcoriaceous, 4-6 in. long, 

 rarely a little narrower than broad, bright-green ; above persistently pube- 

 rulous along the nerves, elsewhere densely papillose and velvety to the 

 touch but ultimately not hairy, beneath thinly persistently rusty-pubes- 

 cent; nerves 11-13; petiole 125-1-5 in., rusty-pubescent. Flowers in 

 leaf-opposed racemes, peduncle subterete -5-2-5 in. long, compressed 

 towards tip, densely rusty-tomentose, lower flowers usually deciduous, 

 bracts persistent ovate-acute under 1 in. long, pubescent externally, 



