191 G. King — Materials for^a Flora of the Malayan Pentmuln. [No. I, 
that it is merely tbe name whicb one ermplojE!, and thatthia oanbs tlono otilj bccAxiflQ 
Bnker hue referre<l to Ills B, glabrifoHa mme TenABserim specimens collactcd by Bel Per 
that iliffor Bpeeifically from the plflnt be tloscribea ; both tbo (liaffTiOflia and tbo cited 
Hynonj-ms of tho Flora of British India must b© altogether osoluded. 
§ 4. Lasiokema Korth, Fertile stamens 3. Caljfx with very sliort 
tube and equally 5-partit© or entire tnmcato limb. Fod dchiBcent or 
( H. augninA) inclehiscenfc, iSleader climbers with long narrow racemes 
of very snmll flowers. 
22. Bauuinia AKOUtNA Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31, A woody climber 
■with slender glabrous branchlets and circinate tendrila. Leaves ovate, 
bane cordate, apex of upjicr leaves often enti^, of the others very vari- 
ably shallowly to deeply 2-fid, sometimes oo young plants afid root- 
shoots quite divided to tho base with more or less divergent and more 
or less acuminate lobes; membmnoua, 2 o-5 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, bright- 
green, shining, glabrous on both surfaces; nerves 5—7; petiole 1 in, 
long, ghxbrous, Flowei's very sraaU in manj-fld. raeeraes arranged ia 
tevminal panicles often extending intoAxils of upper leaves, 6 in. long, 
na mucli across, individual racemes 2^ in, tong, '5 in acTOss, pedicels 
Rpreadiiig, eqnal, '15 in, long, very slender, faintly puberulous as is the 
main-i-ficlii.s, bi'actR minute linear ; buds small spherical, '07 in. in diam. 
Calyx faintly puberulous, tube campanalate very short, lobes ovate "07 
in, long, spremling, Fetah oblaneeolate, '12 in. long, pnbernlouB exter- 
milly, wbitc. ji?/fi?n(?«5 3 fertile, filaments '1 in. long. Ovary distinctly 
stftlked, glahrouB, style slender '1 iu. long, stigma minute, Fod thin 
flat oblong, glabrous, indehiscent, l'5-2 in. long, 1 in. across. Seeds 
oblong, *6 in. long, '35 in. wide, only slightly compressed, long diameter 
in long axis of pod. Cor. Ph TIT, t. 285 ; DC. Pro(lr. 11, 516; Wall. 
Cat. 5773 ; Roxb. Ylor. Ind. II, 32R ; W. <fe A. Prot^r. 298 j Bak. in Flor, 
Brit. Ind. IT, 284^. B. ^candetis Linn. Sp. PI. T, 374 {as to Rheede's 
^lalabar, not ns tf> Rnmphias' Malayan plant.) Lasiohtmia unguiuuiti 
Korth.ex Mit|. Flor. Ind. Bafc.l, 71. 
iLvLAYAN PknixsulA; Jitle Baker m. Flora of British India. Distrib. 
India ; Indo-China ; Malay Arehijielago. 
Sir. Baker notea tbis as being from the Eastern Peninsoiln, ; no RpecimenB have 
been Pont to Calcutta aa yet. Dr. Miqtiel cUtmB it nlao aa a natire of tbe Malay 
Ai-chipelago ; from tbis region likewise, no apccimena have as yet been sent lierej 
nlil tln>se at Calcutta from tho Archipelago beloug to Lasiohema Uorsjieldii Miq. Thia 
iHtter form Mr. Bjikor has reduced to S, an^^ttina and the writer agrees with Baker 
in belioving that the two plants are not specifically Reparable. At the same time 
bo considera it better to treat L. Horsjlddii as varietnlly distinct, on flccoont of its 
tnucb smaller jioda wlticb are only 1-1-25 in. long, and -5^-6 in. ^vide : Dr. Watt too 
has, in Herb. Cnlcutta, propoHed for the plant the name B, anguina VAR. Hornfieldii 
Watt MSS. The point ia boro dvrelt on bccaueo of the possibility tbatj ivhcn U. 
unguinit ia again collected in tho Ponineula, it may prove to be this Sumatra and' 
