I89i7.] G. King — Maieriah for a Flora of the Mahiyan Peninsula. lJ>3 
21. Bauhinia OLABBiFOtJA Bak. in Flor. Brit Ind. IT, ?.8I. A 
elendf^r climber 50-80 feet long, atem 1*5 in. in diam,, branohleta slender 
at first grey-silky^ tendrils few short, circitiate, wootly, sparsely silky. 
Leaves truncate or ahallowly cordatej very rarely deep-cordate at base, 
gradually tapering to an acute point, towards apex of twigs entire, lower 
down cleft at tip, with narrow sinus extending one-sixth to ooe-fourth 
down and with naiTow acuto lobes ; the leaves of young plants and 
root-shorts bifid to tlio very base ; rather lontrer tlian broad, 4-6 in. 
long, 3-4*5 in. wide, liglit-^^reen, sliining, quite glabrous above, when 
young pubescent on the nerves at length glabrons beneath ; nerves 9 
more rarely 7, in the quite 2 -fid. leaves 3 or 4. to eachJobe; petiole 
1-25-3 in., glabrous. 'Floicers in terminal panicles, 8 in. long, 4 in, wide, 
of numerous dense short-peduncled many-flowered corymbs 2 in. long, 
1*25 in. wide, pedicels erecto-patent "Sa-S in. long, loosely grey-silky, 
bracts at bases of corymb-peduncleH 2, stipellar, ovate-acute, '15 in. 
long, Bilky beneath, glabrous above, afc base of pedicels solitary, lanceo- 
late, persistent, "2 in. long, bracfeoles about middle of pedicels 2, sub- 
opposed, snbulate, '15 in. long; buds clove-shaped, the spherical sub- 
apiculate upper part longer than th aaiTOwly cyUndi-ic ba.'?e. O'dtjx 
rather laxly grey-silky, limb fiplltting into spreaiJing subeqaal orate 
lobes with inturned tips, '25 iu. long, tube '15 in. long. Petals small 
white, obovate, clawed, 3 in. long, densely grey -silky outside. Stamens 
3 fei'tile, anthers very shortly oblong, filaments white slender glabrous, 
'5 in. long. Ovarjj densely silky especially along, sutures, distinctly 
stalked, style glabrous slender, -2 in. long, stigma small. Fod (yonng) 
with silky sutnres and glabrous valves ; stipe '25 in. long. Bmihinia 
diptera Blumc ex Miq. Anal. Ind. I, 12. ' B. piperifolia Kurz. Jonrii, As. 
Soc. Beng. XLV» 2, "288 not of ttoxb. B. anguina Kurz, Journ. As. Soo. 
Beng. XLV, 2. 288 not of Roxb. Phanera diptera Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 
I, 70.' 
Perakj Scorteahini 316! 1512 fspp. with distinct leaflets = 
diptera Bl ) I KunstUr 4311 I 45ll ! 6170 ! Wrarj 3960 I Pekang ; Curtis 
801 ! 1541 ! DiaTRiB. Tenasserim ; Pegn ; Borneo. 
This fa eitrsmely nearly related to Bauhinia pipetifolia Uoxb. (Phansra glahri- 
folia Bonth.) and has, indood, been Dnifcod with Roibnrgli'B speoiea both by Mr. Kurjs 
and by Mr. Baker, It is, however vt-jj easily disihiguifilied by ita Btipolliform maiu- 
brnctg, not proaent in B. piperifolin ; I'ta ninch longtjr persistent bracLa at baao qI 
pedicels j it» podicGlrt less than half i\b long, with a aproading, not ndpressed, totncn- 
tum J and its denstily woolly ovaries, tlioae of B. piperifolia being quite crlabrons. 
The oldest name ia Bauhinia diptera Bl. but aa the term is applicable only 
fco young leafy root-shoota or to seedling plants and ifl qnite inappropriate when 
used in connection with flowering brnnclies of tidnlt plants, it Bcerns niugli better 
to neglect it. When Mr. Baker's immo csedj, lioweyer, it has to be rectflkcted 
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