1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Lcguminosa?. 497 



bo absolutely depended upon ; in the three first, as the very large suites of spe- 

 cimens in Herb. Calcutta show, the loaves are often bifid, in the three last they 

 are as often entire at the tip. 



12. Bauhinia- Finlaysoniana Grah. 



Penang ; Curtis 295 ! Perak ; Kunstler 3589 ! Qcortecliini 247 ! 

 1463 ! Wray 2300 ! 



Pods small black glabrous linear-oblong, 2 in. long, '6 in. across. 



Bauhinia Kockiana Reinw. (Verh. Nat. Geschied. 87, t. 10) is very closely related 

 to this species and to B. cornifolia but is quite distinct from both. It resembles B. 

 Finlaysoniana in leaf and in pod, but differs in having a much longer calyx-tube, as in 

 B. cornifolia ; its pods and foliage, however, are quite unlike those of the latter 

 species. 



13. Bauhinia lucida Wall. Cat. 5779 A. 



The F. B. I. has identified this with Bauhinia emarginata Jack, from Sumatra. 

 Dr. Wallich's original note reads as follows : — " Bauhinia emarginata Jack, in Malay 

 Miscel. App. 6. 75 ? Perhaps different by its long racemes which may render it a 

 new species (B. lucida Wall )" 



Jack's plant, by the original description, has more nerves (7-9) than the present 

 plant which has 5-7 only, has long pedicels, and has tomentose ovaries ; it is there- 

 fore clear that the Sumatra plant in question is distinct from the present one. In 

 any case the use of the name B. emarginata should be avoided since it was already 

 employed for a Mexican species (B. emarginata Mill. Diet. ed. viii. n. 5) when Jack's 

 description was published. 



Mr. Baker suggests that this may be B. cordifolia Roxb. and is not alone in this 

 belief, for specimens from Hort. Bogor. show that B. lucida is, or was, in cultivation 

 there under the name B. cordifolia. But Roxburgh's description, though perhaps too 

 meagre to enable us to identify his plant, is sufficient to exclude the present one, 

 since B. cordifolia is described as being smooth in every part. 



13/ J. Bauhinia Wrayi Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 191 ; 

 leaf rather longer than broad, gradually acutely pointed, calyx very 

 small, limb as long as tube, petals broadly oblanceolate margin cre- 

 nulate-sinuate distinctly clawed. 



Perak; Kunstler! Scortechini ! Wray! Selangor; Kunstler! 



A shrubby cirrhose climber 15-30 feet long. Leaves flexible glabrous above, 

 glaucescent and sometimes sparsely pubescent on nerves beneath, 2-3 in. long, 

 T25-r75 in. across, 5-nerved, base truncate, petiole '5-6 in. long. Flowers in dense 

 close-fid. terminal and axillary racemes 25-4 in. long, 2*5 in. across j pedicels spread- 

 ing, 1*25 in. long, sparsely puberulous. Calyx glabrous, tube very slender cylindric 

 "1 in. long, lobes "1 in. long spathulate. Petals pale-yellow or white becoming pink- 

 ish, '6 in. long, externally pubescent. Ovary glabrous stalked, style distinct. Pod 

 obovate to oblong-obtuse, stalk '2 in. long, 2-3 in. long, 1 in. across. Seeds 1-2, 

 rarely 3, broadly ovate much flattened, *5 in. long, '4 in. across. 



A very distinct species apparently connecting the sections Phanera and 

 Lasiobcma. It cannot be confounded with any other Indian species but comes 

 extremely near a Bornean plant (Mottley 376 ; Haviland 95) which differs in having 

 cordate leaves, larger almost glabrous though similarly crenulatcd petals and quite 



