396 LEGUMINOSH. [ Bauhinia. 
lobes rounded and bearing a bristle in their sinus, 1-1] 4 in. long, entire, 
ate nerves) shortly pubescent; flowers rather large, white (?), with 
the lower petal spotted, on 1- 1} i in. long shortly but Cee sce 
cent pedicels, forming short Aertel pubescent racemes; bracts 
subulate, small; calyx shortly tomentose outside, apinaie: shaped i in 
bud, spathaceous ; petals obovate-cuneate, about 14 in. long, g giab 
rous, waved; perfect stamen 1 only, all others padiiedt tary; 0 
stalked, tawny villous (the sutures smooth and glabrous), Sceasitiniat 
by a slender style twice as long as the ovary itself. 
Has.—Martaban. 
2. B. brachycarpa, Wall.—“Glabrous or minutely scabrous- 
puberulous; leaflets connate to 3 of their length, oval, blunt, 
parallelly 4-5-nerved, on an angular pe tiole ; racemes short, many- 
flowered ; flowers pedicelled ; pods senile: broadly linear, acumi- 
nate, minutely tomentose ; flowers unknown.” (Accord. Benth.) 
Has.—Ava, 
3. B. acuminata, L.— Ma-ha-hlay-ka-phyoo.—An erect shrub, 
2-6 ft. high, the young shoots slightly pubescent; leaves cordate- 
rotundate, 2-cleft to about 4 of their length, with the lobes acute or 
bluntish, with or without a “short bristle in their sinus, on a 1-1 
in. long usually glabrous petiole 2-4 in. long and nearly as broad, en- 
tire, chartaceous, glabrous above, beneath conspicuously transversely 
veined and net-veined, aed puberulous ; flowers large, showy, 
pure white, or sometimes the base of the petals yellow, on 3-1 in. 
long indistinctly pubescent glabrescent subulate-bracted pedicels, 
forming short, more or less corym)-like, leaf-opposed and terminal, 
almost glabrous racemes; bracts subulate; calyx minutely and 
sparingly appressed pubescent, spathaceous, about 4 an in. long, 
long-acuminate and setaceously 5-toothed, terete in bud; petals 
more or less oblong, nearly an inch long, glabrous ; stamens 10, 
5 longer ; pods linear-lanceolate, contracted in a slender 4-2 in. long 
eveid, somewhat An haoet brown, glossy. 
Has.—Frequent in the open forests, especially the Eng forests, all over 
= Dil. Arg. 
x —— Fl. March-May; Fr. C.S. pa See 
e lobes rounded or some age =o 
ort bristle in their sinus, on a slender 1|- 13 in. long poole, 
