Bauhinia. } LEGUMINOSE. 401 
globular, oe hairy, the a deeply 5-lobed, the lobes after- 
wards reflexed into 2 bilobulate and 1 simple segments; petals 
a age undulate, Steck 2% lin. long, densely rusty vil- 
lous ; perfect stamens 8; ovary smooth ; oe according to Rox- 
burgh, round or oval, glabrous, 1- is 2-se 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
4. B. macrostachya, Wall.—A large evergreen scandent 
het, all parts glabrous or the young shoots aa | puberu- 
lous; leaves cordate to cordate-ovate, 2-lobed down to 4-4 of their 
length (the lobes bluntish acuminate, rather aks, and a short 
bristle in their sinus) on a 1-14 in. long petiole, entire, 3-4 in. long, 
thin chartaceous, palmately 7-11-nerved, glabrous or slightly puberu- 
lous on the nerves beneath; flowers rather sm » white, on 4 to 3 
in. long tawny mealy-velvety pedicels, forming a longer or shorter 
ad the base usually tendril- and leaf-bearing raceme in the axils of 
the upper leaves and often collected in a more or less ample tawny- 
velvety panicle ; bracts minute, acute; calyx tawny-velvety, about 
2 lin. deep, shortly 5-lobed, the lobes blunt; i in bud almost spherical ; 
petals densely villous-velvety, rotundate, clawed, about 3 lin. long ; 
ovary densely rusty-villous ; pods oblong, very shortly stalked, acute, 
flat, shortly rusty or tawny-velve ety. 
Has.—Burma, without locality. 
dent donab, the young shoots rusty-pubesce escent ; leaves cordate-ovate 
to cordate-rotundate, on a 14-3 in. long petio tiole while young rusty 
i, pubescent, 2-lobed down to 4-3 of their stents (the lobes bluntish 
to bluntish acuminate and a bristle in their sinus), 4-7 in. long and 
nearly as broad, entire, chartaceous, while ene slightly appressed 
pubescent beneath, soon quite glabrescent, palmately 11-15-nerved ; 
flowers small, white, on slender 1-14 in. long rusty-pubescent pedi- 
cels, ee and forming a longer or shorter peduncled bracted 
pubescent corymb-like raceme arising laterally or at the end 
of th the bennchete bracts linear-lanceolate, pubescent, about 2 lin. 
long ; calyx in bud pyriform, appressed pubescent, the lobes ovate, 
about 3 lin. long, reflexed ; petals obovate-oblong, slightly pubescent 
outside, slightly waved, about 4 lin. lon ng; ovary tawny villous, the 
style long and slender, glabrous. 
Has.—Frequent in the tro ss forests along choungs, along the eastern 
slopes of the Pegu Yomah.—F. : L—SS.=Si8. 
16. B, Vahlii,WA.; Brand. For. Fl. 161.—A large tendril- 
ing scandent shrub, all softer parts rusty-pubescent ; leaves cordate- 
rotundate, 2-lobed down to 3-} of their length (the lobes rounded 
and a longer or shorter bristle in their sinus), 3-5 m. long and broad, 
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