L54 NTBIBTJTI0N8 ri:<>\i 1111 NATIONAL SEBBABIUM. 



Bpe< ies, there are 5 to n> fertile stamens. In Casparia, containing the third, there is 

 Lin 1 fertile Btamen. The legume is straight, linear, coriaceous, continuous, 2-valved. 

 Both axillary and terminal racemes occur. 



h) \ i" I ii i 8PBCTB8. 



Fertile stamens 1<» •■!•■">. Section Pauletia 



Petals narrow, linear; Btamens 5. 1. Bauhinia pauletia. 



Petals obovate or obcordate; Btamens i<>. 2. Bauhinia tomento&a. 



Fertile Btamens I. the reel without anthers. Section Oas- 



l>aria. | :;. Bauhinia kappl* 



1. Bauhinia pauletia Pers. 



[Jrban, 271.) 



Erect "i- Bcandenl Bhrubs :'- meters high, armed, leaves Buborbicular or quadraA 

 8 fin. long and wide, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; petiole I t<> 2.5 cm. long; 

 calyx lobes lo t«. 11 cm. long; petals narrowly linear. •"> to 8 cm. long, 1 t<» 1 ."> mm. wide: 

 legume 1"> to l'"> cm. long, 1 i<» L.5 cm. wide, subtomentose; flowering ami htBtuig in 

 January ami February. 



In the copse Dear May aguez; nearCabo Rojo; near Guanica, between La Plata and 

 Sabana Grande near Limon. Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama. Venezuela. West Indies, 

 Trinidad, in Bhady woods near Arima. 



Local names, mariposa, unina goto. 



'2. Bauhinia tomentosa L. 

 (Urban, 271.) 



Shrub 1 to 1 meters high; leaves cordate, usually 7-nerved, membranous, ."..7") cm. 

 to T.")() cm. in diameter, bilobed to one-half or one-third its length, glabrous%bove, 

 paler or somewhat glaucous, minutely tomentose-pubescenl orglabrate beneath, the 

 lobes rounded above and below; calyx limb Bpathaceous; petals obovate or obcordate, 



2.50 to 6.25 cm. long, subsessile or Bhortly clawed, venation divergent, not prominent. 

 pale yellow, posterior one pale purple, with a reddish, nearly black, spot at the base. 

 Cultivated and also seemingly wild, near Fajardo on waysides; near Mayaguez. — 

 Jamaica. Haiti. St. Thomas. St. Croix. Guadeloupe, Martinique, Trinidad. Native 

 country. southeastern Asia, tropical Africa. 



3. Bauhinia kappleri Sagot.a 



[Jrban, 271.) 



Tree or shrub 10 to 15 meters high; leaves ovate or orbicular, 8 to L2, sometimes L8 

 cm. long and wide, truncate orsubcordateal the base, 1 1 to 13-nerved, unarmed: petioles 



:; to 6 cm. long; calyx '2 cm. long; petals obovate, 5 cm. long. 2 to 2.5 cm. wide; (lowers 

 very large, showy, whitish, rose color, or yellow, with purple lines in lax racemes. 



( Sultivated and seemingly spontaneous, near Bayamon : near Fajardo; near Naguabo; 

 around Hacienda Oriente; near Adjuntas at Saltillo; near Pefiuelas at La Cueva; 

 near Cabo Rojo on Mount Buena Vista; near Mayaguez; near Manati on calcareous 

 mountain-: near Rio Arriba around dwellings. — Cuba, Jamaica (Hitchcock), Haiti. 

 St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Kitts. Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, Guiana. 

 Native country, southeastern Asia? 



idmboydn bianco, varietal, seplina. 



a For illustration see Cook and Collins, pi. 19, facing p. 90. 



