1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosse. 499 



ing "5 in., densely brown-tomentose like the calyx. Calyx-tube cylindric, '25 in. long, 

 limb 25 in., lobes ovate. Petals densely silky externally. Ovary tomentose, style 

 distinet. Pod not seen. 



Very nearly related to B. lucida Wall., but at once distinguished by its deeply 

 bifid leaves which are tomentose beneath, and by its shorter, few-flowered racemes. 



18. Bauhinta Kurzii Prain. (B. rosea Kurz, not Miq.) 



Add to localities : — Tknasserim ; on Taepo, at 5000 feet, Gallatly ! 



When Mr. Kurz published his description of B. rosea in 1873 be overlooked the 

 fact that Dr. Miquel had already given the name (in 1844) to a quite different species 

 from Dutch Guiana. 



19. Bauhinia rufa Grah. 



Add to synonyms of F. B. I. : — B. Vahlii Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. xlv. 2. 289; For. Flor. Brit. Burma, i. 401, not of W. 8f A. 



Add to localities : — Pegu ; Hills East of Tounghoo, at 2000 feet, 

 Brandis ! Tenasserim; near Moulmein, J". Anderson ! 



Calcutta Garden Collectors have also quite recently obtained it in 

 the Assam valley, as well as in Silhet. Sir Dietrich Brandis has noted 

 that the flowers are " white, fragrant." 



Mr. Kurz reduced B. rufa to B. Vahlii, a somewhat unusual step to take seeing 

 that, if the two had been conspecific, B. rufa was the older and therefore the preferable 

 name. But as Mr. Baker has shown, the two species are perfectly distinct. B. Vahlii 

 has never been found in Burma : both occur in Assam so that the areas which the 

 two occupy overlap to some extent, but in a general sense B. rufa may be considered 

 the eastern representative of the more widely distributed and much commoner B. 

 Vahlii. 



21. Bauhinia semibipida Boxb. 



Add to synonyms of F. B. I. : — Bauhinia ferruginea var. excelsa 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Lid. ii. 283 not Phanera excelsa Bl. Phanera 

 sumatrana Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 1078. 



Add to localities: — Singapore; very common. Distrib. Sumatra; 

 Borneo. 



It should be noted that the original examples of B. semibifida came from Suma- 

 tra. This plant is usually much confused in herbaria with B. ferruginea. The 

 species is not ecirrhose ; the flowers, when the plant is grown so far north as Cal- 

 cutta, as a reference to Wallich's specimens or to Eoxburgh's figure (reproduced by 

 Wight) will show, are somewhat smaller than when the specimens come from 

 Singapore, Sumatra or Borneo. 



22. Bauhinia mollissima Wall. 



Add to localities : — Perak ; very common. Kedah ; Ridley ! Mal- 

 acca ; Maingay ! 



As this name is considerably older than the name B. elongata Korth, one or 



other of our priority-hunters will be certain one of these days to propose its adoption ; 



it may therefore be as well to alter it now. But it is obviously very undesirable 



that an insistance on the observation of this rule regarding priority should enable a 



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