398 : LEGUMINOSE, [ Bauhinia. 
almost terete, spathaceously opening, about 3 lin. long; petals 
linear-lanceolate, acute, very unequal, the lower longer one about 
5 lin. long, slightly pubescent; ovary glabrous; more or less 
curved, elongate-linear-oblong, tapering in a short stalk, thick, but 
rather flat, 4-3 ft. long, woody coriaceous, glabrous, black; seeds 
oval, brown, shining. — 
Has.—Common in the dry forests of Prome, entering also the savannah 
forests—F1. Fr. March,-Apr—l.—SS. = CaS. All. 
Remarxs.— Wood dark-brown, mottled, rather light, fibrous, but rather close- 
et the heart-wood very hard ; takes fine polish, O' = 44, pd. Bark used 
or slow matches by matchlockmen in India; ropes can also be made from it. 
more or less acute, about an inch long or longer, glabrous; ovary 
appressed tawny villous; fertile stamens 3 or 4; s elongate- 
linear, 5-6 in. long, tapering into an inch long stalk, acuminate, 
glabrous, black, almost smooth, many-seeded ;_ seeds compressed, 
ovoid, pale-brown. | 
Has.—Here and there cultivated in Ava and Pegu.—FI. C.S. 
8. B, elongata, Korth.—An evergreen tree, about 20-30 ft. high, 
all softer parts velvety; leaves cordate-rotundate, 2-lobed to 4-3 of 
their length, with the lobes rounded and a short bristle in their sinus, 
on a 3-1 in. long more or less puberulous petiole, 24-4 in. long and 
broad, entire, chartaceous, minutely velvety all over, palmately 11-13- 
nerved ; flowers middling-sized, yellow, turning orange, on }-1 = 
long sulcate strong velvety pedicels, forming a short velvety — 
opposite the leaves and at the end of the branchlets ; bracts minute ; 
__ alyx about an inch long, velvety, 5-angular in bud, the lobes linear, 
_ more or less separating into 4 cohering and a single free se 
-Yeilexed ; petals about an inch long or longer, linear-lanceolate to 
acuminate, long-tapering at the base, sparingly puberu- 
s oblong-lanceolate, laterally acuminate, narrowed into a 
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