284 L. LEGCMiNOsai. (J. G. Bakerl) \_BauMnia. 



Crhauts of Tbavancokb and Caitaea. 



An extensive dimber, with slender branches, clothed at first -with fine ferruginous 

 pubescence. Leaves rigidly subcoriaceous, slightly cordate, thinly silky on the ribs 

 when young, the obtuse lobes reaching ^-^ down. Bacemes few-flowered, short-pe- 

 duncled, axillary and tenninaL c5ya;-tube ^-| in. Fertile stamens 5. Petdi 

 oblanceolate, with a distinct claw as long as the limb. Ova?y densely msty-downy, 

 with a long style and stalk and small stigma. Pod flat, finely rusty-downy, 1 ft. long, 

 an inch broad, with a raised rib on either side of the upper suture. 



34. B. purpurea, Linn.; Roxh. Sort. Ben^. 31; Fl. Ind. ii. 320; 

 eclrrhose, leaves 9-11-nerved, pubescence grey, pedicels short, sepals not fully 

 distinct exceeding the turbinate tube, petels oblanceolate glahrous exserted. 

 Ham. in Trans. Mnn. Soc. xiii. 4S7; WaU. CcA. 6797, exd. A, E, I, ex parte; 

 W. 8f A. Prodr. 296 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 92, mm BC. B. triandra, Boxb. Sort, 

 Ben^. 31 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 320 ; Wall. Cat. 5799. B. coromandeliana, DC. Brodr. 

 ii. 515. Fhaneia purpurea, Betvth. PI. Jungh. 262. 



From the foot of the West Hiuaiatas and Kbasia Mts. (alt. 4000 ft), to CErLON 

 and Penang. — Disteib. China. 



A middle-sized erect tree, with moderately stout glabrescent branchlets. leaves 

 rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous, shaEowly cordate, the lobes obtuse or subacute, reach- 

 ing J-J^way down. Flowers in terminal and axUlary short-pednnded few-flowered 

 corymbs ; bracts minute, deltoid ; lower pedicels J-J in. Calyx-taite J-4 in. ; limb 

 J— 1 in., coriaceous, slit into two valves, which show a division into S teeth. Petals 

 oblanceolate, with a long claw, reddish, twice the calyx. Fertile stamens 3-4. Ovary 

 gcej downy, with a long stalk and style and moderately large oblique stigma. Pod 

 ^1 ft, by |-1 in., firm, flat, glabrous, late in dehiscing, rather decurved, 12-15- 



35. B. varle^ata, Linn. ; I>C. Prodr. ii. 614 ; ecirrhose, leaves 9-11- 

 nerved, pubescence grey, pedicels short, calyx-limb entire spathaceous equall- 

 ing the cylindrical tube, petals glahrous ohcvate clawed much exserted. Sam. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 496 ; Roxh. Sort. Beng. 31 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 319 ; WiM. 

 Cat. 5795; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 92. B. purpurea. Wall. Cat. 5797, ex paHe. B. 

 Candida, Roxb. Sort. Beng. 31 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 318 ; Wall. Cat. 5796, more AH. 

 Phanera vaiiegata, Benth. PI. Jwngh. 262. 



From the foot of the Western Hiuaiayas, and Sikeiu, alt. 4000 ft, and through 

 India proper, to Bibua. — ^Distbib. China. 



General habit of the last, to which it is closely allied. Leaves rather broader than 

 deep, middle-sized, rigidly subcoriaceous, deeply cordate, the obtuse lobes reaching 

 J-^ down. Corymbs few-flowered, lateral, sessile or short-pedimcled; bracts minute, 

 deltoid ; pedicels erecto-patent, ^-^ in. Calyx-tabe J-1 in. ; limb cordate-ovate, 

 remaining to the end spathaceous and entire. Petals 1^-2 in. long, an inch or more broad, 

 "white, beautifully variegated with red and yellow, sometimes pure white (5. Candida, 

 Eoxb.) Stamens 3-6. Ovary with a long stalk and style and a minute stigma. Pod 

 ^1 ft. long, f-l in. broad, hard, flat, glabrous, rather decurved, dehiscent, 10-15- 

 seeded. 



Sect. 5. Xiasiobema, KoHhah, gen. Fertile stamens 3. CfaZyx-tuhe 

 scarcely any. Flowers minute, in copiously panicled racemes. 



36. B. angulna, Roxh. Cor. PL iii. t. 285 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 328 ; DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 516 ; WaU. Cat. 5773 ; W. Sr A. Prodr. 298. B. scandens, Linn. % Plant, 

 ■edit. i. 374, ex parte (Kheede Hort. Mai. viii. t. 30-31). Lasiohema anguina and 

 Horsfieldii, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 71. 



From Eastebk Bengal and Sikktm to Bibua and Easteen and Westebm 

 Peninsula. — Bistbib. Malay isles. 



