Bauhinia. } LEGUMINOSAE. : 397 
3-5 in. long, palmately 7-9-nerved, entire, thin chartaceous, glabrous, 
somewhat glaucescent beneath; flowers small, white, on hardly a 
line long pedicels forming a very slender minutely pubescent. leaf- 
opposed raceme; bracts minute, acute; calyx glabrous, saccate- 
spathaceous, acute to acuminate, only 3 lin. long, terete in bud; 
petals nearly conform, concave, obovate- oblong, retuse, erect-dons 
niving, sessile, glabrous; stamens 10, 5 of them doubly longer ; 
pods linear-lanceolate, acuminate at the base, almost sessile, 1-24 in 
long, flat, smooth or slightly wrinkled-nerved, the seed- bearing 
— narrow, 2-sulcate, 4-6-seeded ; seeds oblong, small, glossy- 
ack 
Has.—Frequent in the pies mixed elo rey pein and oe down 
to Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Apr.-May; Fr. —SS. = SiS. 
5. B. variegata, L.; Bedd. <a Madr. 92; Brand. For. Fl. 
160. ay ra a —A tree (25—30+6—15+4 Q—4), leafless in H.S., 
the young branchlets puberulous ; leaves cordate-rotundate, 2-cleft to 
3- 4 of their sen with the lobes rounded anda short subolate bristle 
in their sinus, 2-4 in. long, on a 3-1 in. long pena eet 
petiole at summit, entire, Gatrona, palmately 9-11-nerved ; flowers 
large and showy, pale purplish to white with the lar oe petal often 
orange to yellow or purplish blotched, on strong up to 4 an in. 
long naked (not bracted) velvety-tomentose pedicels, arranged into 
avery short minutely bracted corymb-like velvety racemesabove 
the scars of the fallen leaves and at the end of the branchlets; - 
calyx slit, spathaceous, about } an in. long, terete in bud, the apex 
indistinctly 5-toothed; petals about an inch long or longer, from 
broadly ovate-oblong to lanceolate, strongly nerved, acute to acu- 
minate, glabrous; fertile stamens 5; pods linear-lanceolate, nar- 
rowed in a 1-4 in. long stalk, acuminate, 4-6 in. long, glabrous 
and rather smooth or minutely obliquely wrinkled, black, many- 
seeded ; seeds ovoid, rather flat, pale-coloured. 
Has.—Common in the dry forests, especially the upper ones, of Prome and 
Ava, up to 3,200 ft. elevation; also Yoonzeleen, Martaban.—F!. Febr.-March ; 
Fr. C.S.—I.—SS. = Ca. 
. B. racemosa, Lamk.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 182; Brand. 
For. vn 159. inal —A tree (25—30+ 8—15+ 3-4), shedding 
leaves in H.S., the young shoes tawny pubescent; leaves broadly 
cordate-rotundate, on a 4-1 in. long pubescent petiole, shortly 2- 
lobed, with the lobes rounded and a bristle in their sinus, 1-3 in, 
long, entire, chartaceous, beneath slightly appressed pubescent, more 
- or less glabrescent : and glaucescent ; flowers small, white, on 2-3 lin. 
long ——— ees forming softly and shortly “pubescent racemes 
at the end of the branchlets; bracts minute; calyx shortly pubes- 
cent, the tube pa and 1 hemispherical, the lobes in bud ovate-acute, — 
