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XL11I. LEGUMINOSiE. 
84. BAUHINIA, Linn. 
(After the brothers Bauhin, botanists of the fifteenth century.) 
Sepals united at the base into a short or long disk-bearing tube, the free part 
separating into 5 or fewer valvate or induplicate lobes. Petals 5, inserted at the 
summit of the tube, usually clawed, more or less unequal. Stamens 10, free, 
either all perfect or some reduced to small staminodia. Ovary stipitate, the stalk 
adnate to one side of the calyx-tube, with several ovules ; style usually filiform, 
with a capitate, broad or oblique, terminal stigma. Pod linear or oblong, com- 
pressed, 2-valved. Seeds compressed ; albumen usually thin ; radicle short and 
straight. — Trees or woody climbers. Leaflets either 2 distinct from the base, or 
(in the majority of species not Australian) united into an entire or 2-lobed leaf, 
with 5 to 11 digitate nerves. Racemes terminal. 
A large geuus, distributed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. It has 
been divided into several genera, which I have in other works been disposed to adopt ; 
but it may be more convenient to follow De Candolle and others in considering them as sub- 
genera. — Benth. 
Sect. I. Pauletia, Cav. — Fertile stamen s 10. Calyx with a very short tube and spathaceoiis 
limb. Pud narrow, dehiscent. — Erect shrubs, with large showy J lowers and connate leaflets. — J. G. 
Baker. 
Flowers in close axillary racemes. Petals as long as the calyx-limb, 
which is cleft into 5 subulate teeth at the tip. Pod with a rib on each 
side of the upper suture 1. B. acuminata. 
Sect. II. Xaysiphyllum, Benth. — Fertile stamens 10. Calyx ivith a lung tube and 5-cleft 
limb. Pod broad, indehiscent. Leaflets distinct. 
Calyx disk-bearing base very short, free part campanulate, deeply lobed. 
Outer petals -5 to 6 lines long. Pod 2in. broad 2. B. Cunninghamii. 
Calyx disk-bearing base turbinate, free part as long, shortly lobed. Petals 
(5 or 7 lines long. Pod 1 to lfin. broad 3. B. Carronii. 
Calyx disk-bearing base cylindrical, free part as long, divided to the base. 
Outer petals ljin. long. Pod 1 to ljin. broad 4. B. Hookeri. 
Sect. III. Casparea, DC. — Calyx-tube fusiform; limb spathaceoiis. 
Fertile stamen 1 5. B. monandra. 
1. S. acuminata (calyx long pointed), Linn.; Baker in FI. Brit. Ind. ii. 
276. An erect shrub, with obscurely downy angular branches. Leaves slightly 
cordate, flexible, 3 to 6in. long, 9 to 11-nerved ; the lobes acute or subobtuse, not 
reaching half-way down, at first finely pubescent beneath. Racemes axillary, 
shortly pedunculate, corymbose ; pedicels erecto-patent, 6 to 9 lines long, with 
linear-subulate bracts and bracteoles. Calyx 1 to lfin., narrowed into a long 
point, cleft at the tip. Petals oblong, whitish. Style, fin. Pod 4 to 5in. long 
and about fin. broad, firm, glabrous, 8 to 12-seeded ; stalk fin. long. 
Hab.: India, China, Malay Isles, and Queensland, F. v. Mueller. 
2. B. Cunninghamii (after A. Cunningham), Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 295. 
A tree of 20ft. or more, the young branches slender, rarely short and spinescent, 
the young shoots and leaves pubescent, at length glabrous. Leaflets quite 
distinct, broadly falcate-ovate, very obtuse, f to lfin. long, and more than half 
as broad, finely 5 to 7-nerved. Flowers 2 or 3 together on a very short common 
peduncle, the pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx about 5 lines long, velvety- 
tomentose, the disk-bearing base very short and broad, the free part broadly 
campanulate, thick, divided below the middle into 5 ovate equal lobes. Petals 
silky-tomentose, ovate, the 2 outer lower ones exceeding the calyx by above 3 
lines, the lateral ones by about 2 lines, and the uppermost inner one scarcely at 
all. Stamens 10, longer than the petals, the lowest the longest. Ovary on a 
long stipes, with 8 to 10 ovules ; stigma large capitate. Pod very flat, thinly 
