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that it is merely the name which one employs, and that this can be done only becanse 

 Baker lias referred to his B. glabrifolia some Tenasserim specimens collected by Heifer 

 that differ specifically from the plant he describes ; both the diagnosis and the cited 

 synonyms of the Flora of British India must be altogether excluded. 



§ 4. Lasiobema Korth. Fertile stamens 3. Calyx with very short 

 tube and equally 5-partite or entire truncate limb. Pod dehiscent or 

 (B. anguina) indehiscent. Slender climbers with long narrow racemes 

 of very small flowers. 



22. Bauhinia anguina Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31. A woody climber 

 with slender glabrous branchlets and circinate tendrils. Leaves ovate, 

 base cordate, apex of upper leaves often entire, of the others very vari- 

 ably shallowly to deeply 2-fid, sometimes on young plants and root- 

 shoots quite divided to the base with more or less divergent and more 

 or less acuminate lobes ; membranous, 2*5-5 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, bright- 

 green, shining, glabrous on both surfaces ; nerves 5-7 ; petiole 1 in. 

 long, glabrous. Flowers very small in many-fid. racemes arranged in 

 terminal panicles often extending into axils of upper leaves, 6 in. long, 

 as much across, individual racemes 2-4 in. long, - 5 in across, pedicels 

 spreading, equal, 15 in. long, very slender, faintly puberulous as is the 

 main-rachis, bracts minute linear ; buds small spherical, "07 in. in diam. 

 Calyx faintly puberulous, tube campanulate very short, lobes ovate *07 

 in. long, spreading. Petals oblanceolate, '12 in. long, puberulous exter- 

 nally, white. Stamens 3 fertile, filaments "1 in. long. Ovary distinctly 

 sfalked, glabrous, style slender '1 in. long, stigma minute. Pod thin 

 flat oblong, glabrous, indehiscent, 1*5-2 in. long, 1 in. across. Seeds 

 oblong, '6 in. long, *35 in. wide, only slightly compressed, long diameter 

 in long axis of pod. Cor. PI. Ill, t. 285; DC. Prodr. II, 516; Wall. 

 Cat. 5773 ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 328 ; W. & A. Prodr. 298 ; Bak. in Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. II, 284. B. scandens Linn. Sp. PI. T, 374 (as to Rheede's 

 Malabar, not as to Rumphius' Malayan plant.) Lasiobema anguinum 

 Korth. ex Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 71. 



Malayan Peninsula ; fide Baker in Flora of British India. Distrtb. 

 India ; Inclo-China ; Malay Archipelago. 



Mr. Baker notes this as being from the Eastern Peninsula ; no specimens have 

 been sent to Calcutta as yet. Dr. Miquel claims it also as a native of the Malay 

 Archipelago; from this region likewise, no specimens have as yet been sent here; 

 all those at Calcutta from the Archipelago belong to Lasiobema Horsfieldii Miq. This 

 latter form Mr. Baker has reduced to B. anguina and the writer agrees with Baker 

 in believing that the two plants are not specifically separable. At the same time 

 he considers it better to treat L. Horsfieldii as varietally distinct, on account of its 

 much smaller pods which are only 1-1*25 in. long, and *5-"6 in. wide : Dr. Watt too 

 has, in Herb. Calcutta, proposed for' the plant the name B. anguina VAR. Horsfieldii 

 Watt MSS. The point is here dwelt on because of the possibility that, when B. 

 anguina is again collected in the Peninsula, it may prove to be this Sumatra and 



