180 G. Kmg — Materials for a Mora of tlie Malayan Peniftiula. [No. 1, 
Calysc-inbe usually more or less produced j limb 5 cleft oi-, ymy rarely, 
epatliaceouB. Bi-ect or scandeiit; flowers variable in size. 
4, Bauhinea pvrwuea Linn. Sp. PI. 375. An erect tree 20-30 
feet high, with modei-ately atout glabrescent bifincbes and without 
tendrila. Leaves rouudiwb, base sballowly cordate^ apex divided oue- 
tbird to one-Iialf down, ainne wideish, lobea roQiidtfd obtuse or subacute ; 
rigidly subconacoous, 4-6 in, long and hroiid, medium groeo, glabrous 
above, paler and glabrous or faintly puberiiloua beneath ; iiorves S^-II ; 
peliole 1"5 in. glabrous; stipuli^s email merabi-anoue, triaiignJar, '1 in. 
long, deciduous. Flowers in terminal and axillary ebort- pod uncled few- 
fld. coi^mbs, 2—4 iu. longj lower pedicels ■2*'i-*5 in. long, puberulous 
as is the rachis, bracts minute deltoid, deciduous ; buds clavate 15 in. 
long, taperiu^ uniformly from the blunt apeac to the base. Calyx tawriy- 
downy, limb "9 in. long, splitting into 2 coriaceous valves slightly divided 
at the apex into 5 sliort teeth, tube slightly dilated upwards '6 in. long. 
Petals 5, oblanceolat© acute with long claw, white to pnrple, 1'75 in. 
long, *5 in. wide. Stamens 3— t fertile, autliera linear-oblong, filaments 
white, as long as the petub. Ovaryrm-y loiig-stalkud, pnboruloue, ovules 
16-20, style stoutish 4 in. long, stigrua rather b^n-ge oblique peltate. 
Pod glabrous S-12 in. long, "^1 in. across, tardily delu-scing, valves 
firm woody flat, rather pointed at botli ends, stipo 1 in long. Seeds 
J2-J(>, compressed, orbicular, '5 in. in diam. testa brown. Roxb, Hoii, 
Beng. 31; Ham. in TrauB. Linn. Soc. Xlll^ 407 ^ Wall. Oat. 5797 In 
part; Roxb. Flor, Ind. IT. 320; W. & A. Prodr. 29G ; Bcdd. l^lor. Sylv. 
92 ; Bftk. in ¥\ov. Brit, Ind. II, 2B4. U. trumdra Roxh. Hort. Beng. 31 ; 
Wall. Cat» 5799; Roxb. FL Ind. 11, 320. B. cm-omandeliana DC. 
Prodr, II, 515. FJtanm'a ptirpHrea Benth. PL Jungli. 262 ; Miq. Ftor. 
Ind. Bat. I, 60. 
Singapore J HulleU 218! perhaps planted.* Distbib India ; Indo- 
Cbina ; China. 
5. Bauhinia mollissima Wall. Cat. 5782 (1830). A rather slender 
climber, usually snifill l)ufc sometimes reaching 60-80 feet in length, 
branches slender persistently rusiy-tomenfcose ; apparently alwaya 
without tendrils. Leaves roandifih, base cordate, apex divided one-third 
down, sinus wide, lobes obtuse; rigidiy subcoi-iaceons, 4-6 in. long, 
rarely a little narrower than broad, bright-green ; above persistently pube- 
rulous along the nerTes, elsewhere densely papillose and velvety to tho 
touch but ultimntely not bairj--, l>eneatb thinly persistently rusty-pubes- 
cent; nerves 11-13; petiole 1'25-1'5 in., rujsty- pubescent. Flowers in 
leaf-opposed racemes, peduncle snbterete '5-2-5 in. long, compressed 
towards tip, densely rusty- tomentoso, lower flowers usually deciduoxis, 
brftcts persistent oTftt-o-acute under *1 in. long, pubescent externally, 
