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hid. II, 279. Phanera bidentata Be nth. PI. Jungh. 263; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, 64. 



Perak ; Scortechini 93 ! 248 ! Wray 1628 ! Kunstler 803 ! 1000 ! 

 3180! 3183! 3528! 4797! 6533! Penang; Porter (Wall. Cat. 5778)! 

 Hullett 181 ! Kunstler 1300 ! Curtis 136 ! Selangor ; Ridley 318 ! Johore ; 

 King! Hullett 833! Distrjb. Sumatra (Forbes!)-, Philippines. 

 Nearest to B. comifolia Bak. 



15. Bauhixia lucida Wall. Cat. 5779 A. A large creeper more 

 than 100 feet long, with stoutish glabrous brandies; tendrils long 

 circinate glabrous. Leaves usually distinctly cordate at the base, 

 tapering from below the middle to an ultimately abruptly shortly acu- 

 minate point ; rather longer than broad, 3-5 in. long. 2-25 in. wide, 

 rigidly subcoiiaceous, bright-green shiuing above, glabrous on both sur- 

 faces, 5- (rarely 7-) nerved; petiole '3-4 in. long, glabrous. Floivers in 

 lax long-peduncled copious paniculate racemes, terminal and extending 

 into the axils of the upper leaves, 4-6 in. long, 2 in. across ; pedicels 

 i usty-puberulous, erecto-patent, subequal throughout the raceme, rarely 

 exceeding 75 in. long, bracts lanceolate, deciduous, 2 in. long, bracteoles 

 2 subpersistent, subopposite, subulate, '15 in. long, near base of calyx- 

 tube; bud clove-shaped, the subcylindric base as long as the obovoid 

 blunt upper porlion. Calyx closely rusty-tomentose, limb splitting into 

 subequal ovate-obtuse lobes "25 in. long, 2 in. across; tube subcylindric 

 '25 in. long. Petals subequal, bright-yellow, ovate-oblong, long-clawed, 

 "8 in. long, '5 in. across, externally rusty-pubescent. Stamens 3 fertile, 

 anthers shortly oblong. Ovary glabrous except on sutures near the 

 base, stalk distinct pubescent; style *15 in. long, glabrous, stigma large 

 peltate. Pod narrowly oblong, woody, 3'5 in. long, 1 in. Avide, narrow- 

 ing towards the base, valves glabrous ; stipe 25 in. long, rusty-pubescent. 

 Seeds 4-6, irregularly orbicular, compressed, "4 in. across. Bauliinia 

 emarginata Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 278 not of Mill, and hardly of 

 Jack. Phanera lucida Benth. PI. Jungh. 262. 



Penang; Porter (Wall. Cat. 5779) ! Perak; Wray 2127 ! Scortechini 

 M ! J 534 ! Kunstler 3434 ! 3902 ! 6659 ! 



Mr. Bentham and Mr. Baker both refer to this species B. emarginata Jack, from 

 Sumatra. But Jack's plant has, by the original description, corymbose racemes 

 with long pedicelled flowers and has tomentose ovaries. It is therefore quite clenr 

 that it cannot bo the same as B. lucida Wall. In any case the use of the name 

 ' emarginata' is to be deprecated, seeing that it was applied to a Mexican species (B. 

 emarginata Mill. Diet., cd. VIII, 5) before Jack's name was published. 



16. Bauhinia Scortechinii Pram. A large climber with slender 

 branches, glabrous except at the rusty-puberulous tips, tendrils long 

 circinate puberalous. Leaves one and a half times as long as broad. 



