400 LEGUMINOS&. -  [ Bauhinia. 
11. B. involucellata, Kz. = scandent shrub, the young shoots 
slightly puberous ; i _ cordate-ovate, on a glabrous 14-2 in. long 
petiole, 2-lobed to 4-3 of their length, with the lobes bluntish acumi- 
nate and a bristle i os ‘theld sinus, 3-4 in. long, entire, thin chartaceous, 
glabrous, palmately 9-11 nerved ; flowers rather lar ge, pale rose- 
coloured, on 2-24 in. long shortly puberulous glabrescent pedicels 
acauunrias 2-braeteoled below the apex and forming a longer or 
shorter terminal puberulous: sisteesat raceme; bracts minute, 
indistinet ; bractlets below the calyx elliptically oblong, bluntish, 
$ in. long, velvety inside, forming a 2-leafed involucellum to eac 
flower ; calyx velvety, the tube tubular, sulcate, about 3 lin. long 
or longer, the lobes in bud oblong-ovate, lanceolate, acuminate, 4 
in. long, all separating and afterwards reflexed ; petals nearly 14 in. 
long, the blade ovate-oblong, blunt, as long ‘as the claw } ovary 
smooth, the style rather long, ‘but thick ; fertile stamens 3. 
Has.—Martaban. 
12. lauca, Wall.—A scandent evergreen shrub, the young 
shoots appressed rusty pubescent; leaves rotundate-oval, 2-lo 
to more than $ of their length, with the lobes rounded and a bristle 
in their sinus, on a slender about 1-4 in. long while young slightly 
pubescent petiole, 2-3 in. long and broad, entire, chartaceous, 
glabrous, while young slightly rusty pubescent along the 9-11 
palmate nerves and somewhat glaucescent beneath ; flowers small, on. 
very slender about 4 in. long minutely puberous 2-bracteolate pedicels, 
forming a corymb-like longer or shorter peduncled minutely rusty 
puberulous bracted raceme lateral or at the end of the branchlets ; 
bracts setaceous ; calyx glabrous, the tube cy lindria about 3 an in. 
long, the lobes globular in bud, ovate, about 2 lin. long, reflexed ; 
petals obovate, glabrous or slightly pubescent outside, about 3 lin. 
. long ; ovary smooth ; pods broadly oblong, very flat, chartaceous, 5- 8 
in. long by 2 broad, with somewhat thic kened sutures, contracted in 
a very short stalk, ‘glossy black, and slightly transversely nerved. 
Hazs.—Tropical forests above SaaEOON 5 Tenasserim, apparently frequent. 
—Fl. March-June; Fr. Febr. 
13. B, piperifolia, Roxb.—A large scandent evergreen shrub, 
the very yo shoots minutely puberous; leaves cordate-ovate, 2- 
lobed down to $ of their length, with the lobes converging, bluntish 
acuminate and a short bristle in their sinus, on a $-1} in. long puber- 
_ ous or glabrous petiole, 3-4 in. long, thin chartaceous, entire, glabrous 
ss ately pubescent along the palmate 7-9 nerves beneath, turning 
d glossy in drying; flowers white, rather small, oe slender 
— os 1b og ata deme ad pedicels, forming corymb-like bractless 
racemes in the axils of the upper leaves and 
in a sort of terminal corymb ; calyx in 
