504 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosee. [No. 2, 



A woody climber, branchlets hoary-pubescent. Leaves broadly cordate, 5-7- 

 nerved, 25-4 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, upper leaves often entire, the others divided at 

 the tip into two broad obtuse or deltoid lobes. Racemes paniculate at end of branches, 

 rarely simple ; bracts minute linear ; pedicels 35 in. Calyx-tube very short, lobes 

 linear-lanceolate '24 in. long. Petals white similar oblanceolate, '25 in. long, sparsely 

 pubescent externally. Stamens 3 fertile, '4 in. long. Pod 3 in. long, 1 in, wide ; 

 stipe 2 in. long. 



Mr. Bentham refers this to § Phanera, but its floral structure is exactly that of 

 § Lasiobema; indeed, it is only the presence of the very different pods that makes 

 its specific separation from B. {Lasiobema) anguina possible. 



36/2. Bauhinia Curtisii Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 195; 

 leaves thin glabrous beneath ; ovary glabrous ; pod oblong, 3-5-seeded, 

 glabrous, calyx-tube very short, limb 5-fid. 

 Kedah; Curtis 1682 I 26J9! 



A woody climber, branchlets very faintly puberulous. Leaves ovate -oblong, 5-7- 

 nerved, 2"5-4 in. long, 2-2'5 in. wide, upper sometimes entire, the others divided at 

 the tip into two short slightly diverging deltoid lobes. Racemes simple or paniculate 

 at end of branches, bracts minute linear ; pedicels *5 in. Calyx-tube very short, 

 lobes ovate-lanceolate, '15 in. long. Petals white similar spathulate, clawed, gla- 

 brous, *25 in. long. Stamens 3 fertile, *35 in. long. Pod 25 in. long, *75 in. wide ; 

 stipe '1 in. long. 



Very near B. Championii Benth., but with longer pedicels, smaller buds, shorter 

 calyx-lobes, and much shorter stipe to ovary and pod. The ovary too is quite 

 glabrous as are the leaves beneath. 



36/3. Bauhinia strychnoidea Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 

 J 95 ; leaves thickly coriaceous quite glabrous polished shining; pod 

 broadly oblong 2-4-seeded, densely pubescent, calyx-tube very short, 

 limb large campanulate entire truncate with 5 minute projections on 

 margin. 



Perak ; Scorteehini ! Kunstler ! Selangor ; Kwala Lampar, Kelsall ! 



A woody climber 50-60 feet long; branches glabrous. Leaves ovate-acute, 

 5-nerved, the inner pair almost as strong as the pinnately branching midrib and often 

 partly conjoined with its base ; 35 in. long, 2 in. wide. Racemes simple or paniculate 

 at end of branches, bracts minute linear, pedicels 75 in. Calyx-tube very, short, 

 limb entire wide -campanulate, '2 in. long and broad. Petals red, the upper ovate 

 slightly longer than the rest, the others spathulate obtuse, 35 in. long, all quite glabrous 

 externally, slightly puberulous on midrib within. Stamens 3 fertile not exserted. 

 Pod 4-6 in. long, 2 in. wide, densely pubescent externally. ■ Seeds ovate, compressed, 

 1 in. long ; "6 in. wide, dark-brown. 



This very remarkable species at first sight seems to deserve being treated as the 

 type of a new section because of its curiously veined leaves, which have the 

 nervation of a Strychnos rather than of a Bauhinia ; its cupular entire calyx-limb 

 is also quite different from that of any other Indian species of the genus. But 

 the facies is so completely that of a thick -leaved Lasiobema that it is no doubt better 

 to incorporate it in that section. Mr. Bentham in the Genera Plantarum has res- 

 tricted to Lasiobema a solitary species, B. anguina ; the species B. Championii is, 

 however, so obviously a member of the same group, in spite of its longer pods, that 



