502 D. Pram — Some additional Leguminosoe. [No. 2, 



long-. Seeds 8-10, much compressed, wide-ovate, '25 in. long, '2 in. wide, pale- brown, 

 testa shining. 



A very distinct species not nearly related to any hitherto known form. The 

 name B. diptera is, as has already been explained under B. glahrifolia, preoccupied. 

 Owing, however, to its inapplicability to the more usual form of the species it was 

 intended to designate, the original name B. diptera Bl. should be allowed to lapse. 

 In the event, however, of our bibliographers being permitted to substitute the name 

 B. diptera Bl. for the name B. glahrifolia Bak., it will be necessary to use, instead 

 of B. diptera Coll. & Hemsl., the name B. Collettii for the present plant. 



31. Bauhinia ferruginea Boxb. 



Delete both varieties ; also delete from the synonyms : — Korth. Nat. 

 Verh. Geschied. Bot. t. 23 : B. Pottsii G. Bon, Gen. Syst. ii. 462. 



The only point wherein the F. B. I. description is inapplicable to the plant 

 described and figured by Roxburgh and issued by Wallich as B. ferruginea and again 

 described by Bentham as Phanera ferruginea, is as regards the length of the pedicels ; 

 these do not, even in fruit, reach half-an-inch in length. Korthal's plant is certainly 

 not Wallich's and Roxburgh's and therefore is not B. ferruginea Roxb. As it happens, 

 it forms the basis of Phanera excelsa Miq., which is quoted as a synonym of B. 

 ferruginea vab. excelsa and is thus apparently accounted for in two places in the 

 F. B. I. As a matter of fact, however, the specimens from Malacca that form the 

 basis of var. excelsa do not belong to Phanera excelsa Miq. (B. excelsa Bl.— B. ferruginea 

 Korth. not Roxb.) Nor do they belong to B. ferruginea; they -'have petals almost 

 glabrous externally and have long pedicels, and are the same as Phanera sumatrana 

 Miq. which, in turn, is identical with B. semibifida Roxb. 



Bauhinia Pottsii G. Don, by its description cannot possibly be B. ferruginea 

 because of its having pubescent pods. There is nothing in Don's short description 

 to separate it from B. mollissima Wall. (B. elongata Korth.) and it should be referred 

 as a synonym to that species. 



31/1. Bauhinfa Ridleyi Train, Jonrn. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 185; 

 cirrhose, pubescence very densely silky-ferrugineous, leaves 9-11-nerved 

 cleft one-third down, pedicels very short, calyx-limb 5-cleffc rather 

 exceeding the ampiillaeform tube, petals not exserted densely silky. 



Perak ; Scortechini ! Kunstler ! PenanG; Ridley! Curtis! Johore ; 

 King and Halle tt ! 



Branchlets persistently tomentose. Leaves strigose above, densely tomentose 

 beneath, lobes subacute, 2*5-4 in. long. Flowers in very dense terminal corymbs, 

 2 in. long and broad ; densely softly rusty-silky bracts large ovate. Calyx-tube 3 in. 

 long. Petals oblong obtuse. Stamens 3. Style stout 5 in. long. Pod unknown. 



Near B. ferruginea but with denser pubescence and distinctly pubescent leaves ; 

 the very dense corymbs and short petals at once distinguish it from the other mem- 

 bers of its group. 



31/2. Bauhinia Griffithiana Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 

 183 ; cirrhose, pubescence bright-ferrugineous, leaves 9-11-nerved cleft 

 one- third down, stipules large orbicular persistent, calyx-limb 5-cleft 

 rather exceeding the ampiillaeform tube, petals exserted densely silky. 



