498 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosse. [No. 2, 



glabrous pedicels. It is not impossible that the Borneo plant may be the true 

 B. cordifolia Roxb., which came originally from the Moluccas. 



14 Bauhinia retusa Ham. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Nepal ; Maries ! Chota Nagpur ; 

 very common, T. Thomson ! Kurz ! Gamble ! Wood ! G. B. Clarice ! 

 Prain ! 



15. Bauhinia integrifolia Roxb. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Perak; Pro v. Wellesley and 

 Pahang, very common. Distkib. Sumatra. 



16. Bauhinia bidentata Jack. 



Add to description of F. B. I. : — Pod oblong woody, 4-5 in. long, 

 1*5 in. wide, externally quite glabrous, stipe *25 in. long. Seeds 4-5, 

 much compressed, '5 in. long, '35 in. wide. 



Add to localities: — Perak ; common. Selangor; Ridley ! Johore ; 

 King ! Hullett ! Distrib. Sumatra. 



The Malacca specimens referred here in the F. B. I. agree with B. cornifolia 

 Bak. except in having bifid leaves with an extra pair of nerves ; they have therefore 

 been referred to that species rather than to B. bidentata from which their pubescent 

 pods alone suffice to exclude them. 



16/1. Bauhinia Kingii Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 189 ; 

 scandent, cirrhose, pubescence ferrugineous, calyx-tube equalling the 

 limb, ovary silky along the sutures, long stalked. 



Perak; Scortechini ! Wray ! Selangor ; Kelsall ! Distrib. Borneo ? 



Leaves deeply cordate, often slightly subpeltate, narrowed gradually to an 

 emarginate rarely entire often deeply 2-fid tip ; nerves 5, pubescent beneath branch- 

 ing outwards ; rigidly coriaceous, 3'5-4 in. long, 2'5-3 in. wide ; shining above. 

 Flowers in lax lateral and terminal corymbs 3 in. long, 2'5 in. wide, sometimes 

 forming large loose leafy zigzag panicles 6 in. across, often over a foot long. Buds 

 pubescent ; pedicels puberulous, the longest 1*25 in., spreading. Calyx-limb splitting 

 into subequal ovate very shortly acuminate lobes, *25 in. long, - 2 in. across ; tube 

 narrowly infundibuliform, '25 in. long. Petals subequal, bright-red (Wray), oblanceo- 

 late-obtuse, long-clawed, "8 in. long, *25 in. wide, externally rusty-pubescent. Ovary 

 pubescent along sutures, stalk ultimately '2 in. long, style "25 in. long, curved 

 pubescent. Pod woody glabrous tapering to both ends, 2 in. long, -8 in. wide. Seeds 

 1-2, ovate, compressed, "3 in. long, 2 in. across. 



A very distinct species. Beccari n. 835, from Borneo, is perhaps the same. 



16/2. Bauhinia Scortechinii Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 

 188 ; leaf rather longer than broad, suddenly tapering in upper third 

 to a deeply 2-fid tip ; calyx-limb as long as tube ; leaves densely-pubescent 

 beneath. 



Perak ; Scortechini ! 



A cirrhose twiner with glabresccnt branches. Leaves rigidly coriaceous, 3*5-4 in. 

 jbng, 2-25 in. wide, 9- (rarely 7-) nerved, shallowly cordate or truncate. -Flowers in 

 .short lax terminal racemes under 2 in. long, pedicels ereoto-patent, lower not exceed- 



