402 - LEGUMINOSE. [ Bauhinia. 
on a rusty-pubescent petiole 1-3 in. long, entire, chartaceous, 
above slightly, beneath densely rusty-pubescent, palmately 11-13- 
nerved ; flowers rather large, white, turning yellowish, on slender 
14-2 in. long rusty-pubescent pedicels, forming a corymb-like 
shorter or longer peduncled rusty or tawny villous raceme at the end 
of the branchlets; bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate; calyx ap- 
pressed pubescent, terete and ovoid in bud, the tube tubular, the 
lobes ovate-lanceolate, about 4 lin. long, reflexed into 2 unequally 
cohering spathes; petals nearly an inch long, long-clawed, obovate, 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim. 
17. B. rosea, Kz.—A scandent shrub, the younger parts shortly 
tawny pubescent; leaves cordate-rotundate, 2-lobed to about } of 
their length (the lobes rounded and a short bristle in their sinus) on a 
14 to 2 in. long puberulous petiole, 3-5 in. long and nearly as broad, 
branchlets; bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 4 lin. long ; 
calyx tawny appressed puberulous, with a short tube, in bud terete- 
ovoid, the lobes all separating and reflexed, 4 lin. long, linear-lanceo- 
late ; petals long-clawed, obovate-linear, waved, slightly appressed 
pubescent on both sides, about 2 in. long; ovary along with the 
thick short style (shorter than the ovary) tawny villous. 
Has.—Martaban, in the Eng forests of Kaymapyo choung.—Fl. May. 
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eeolate, long-tapering at the base, rusty appressed-villous outside 5 
