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



naked name like Wallich's to displace the name given by Korthals along with a 

 fall description and an excellent plate. B. Pottsii G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 462 is much 

 better referred here than to B. ferruginea. 



25. Bauhinia pipertfolia Boxb. Flor. Ind. ii. 327 ; Bah. in Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. ii. 285. Phanera glabrifolia Benth. PI. Jiingh. 263. Bauhinia 

 glabrifolia Bak. in Flor. Brit. hid. ii. 281 (as to description and as to syno- 

 nyms, but excluding the plant from Tenasserim). B. lucida Wall. Cat. 

 5779B, not 5779A. 



Assam ; Simons ! Silhet ; fide Roxburgh. 



It has been a standing puzzle for many years to Indian botanists why Mr. 

 Bentham, whose judgment, in all matters relating to Leguminosae, deserves per- 

 haps greater attention than that of any other author, should have decided that 

 the plant cultivated in the Calcutta garden as B. piperifolia could not be Roxburgh's 

 plant. Roxburgh's description is extremely meagre it is true, but the only apparent 

 discrepancy lies in the number of nerves (given by Bentham as 4 for each lobe and 

 therefore 9 for the whole leaf, by Roxburgh as 5-7) and the shape of the leaves, 

 (given by Roxburgh as entire by Bentham as shortly bifid at the apex). These 

 are not really discrepancies ; the upper leaves on twigs are most usually 5-7-nerved 

 and entire ; those below are most usually, though not always, 2-fid and 7-9-nerved. 

 One point which both Roxburgh's and Bentham's diagnoses omit to note is that the 

 leaves on root-shoots and on young plants may be completely 2-lobed to the very 

 base exactly as in a species of the section Lysiphyllum. The plant is not ecirrhose. 



25/6. Bauhinia glabrifolia Bak, in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 281 excluding 

 description and synonyms; cirrhose, leaves 9-nerved, pubescence thin 

 grey, pedicels rather short, flowers small, calyx-tube turbinate, limb 

 rather exceeding the tube, petals little exserted. B. piperifolia Kurz, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. 2. 288 not of Boxb. B. anguina Kurz, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. xlv. 2. 288 not of Boxb. Phanera diptera, Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. i. 70. Bauhinia diptera Bl. ex Miq. Anal. Ind. i. 12. 



Pegu; Kurz! Tenasserim; Heifer 1879! 1880! Perak ; Scorte- 

 chini 316! 1512! Wray 3960! Kunstler 4311 ! 4511! 6170! Penang ; 

 Curtis 801 ! 1541 ! 



Branchlets slender at first finely silky. Leaves shallowly to deeply cordate, 

 rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous shining above, moderately large, quite entire or with 

 2 acute lobes reaching £-£ down ; leaves on root shoots and on young plants quite 

 bilobed to the base (as in § Lysiphyllum). Flowers in panicles of dense many- 

 flowered short-peduncled corymbs ; bracts long lanceolate persistent ; pedicels 

 slender ascending ; never exceeding '5 in., usually only "3- - 35 in., clothed like calyx 

 with grey-silky pubescence. Calyx-tube '5 in. ; bud globose ; limb usually not fully 

 5-cleft. Petals obovate clawed, densely silky on the back. Ovary densely silky, 

 s hurt-stalked ; style produced, stigma small. 



This plant was considered by Mr. Kurz as well as by Mr. Baker to be the same 

 as B. piperifolia. An examination of Mr. Kurz's specimens, which form the basis 

 of his descriptions in the Forest Flora and in his other papers, shows that what 

 he lias treated as B. anguina is in every case the preseat species. B. anguina does 

 occur in Burma bat all the specimens of that species have been treated by Mr. 



