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Named after two brothers, John and Caspar Bauhin, both 
of them distinguished in Botany. The leaves are bilobed, as if 
from the union of two single leaves. 
1. Bauhinia porrecta. Mountain Ebony. 
Leaves cordate puberulous along the under surface 
of the nerves, as also the petioles and branchlets, 
leaflets united as far as the middle ovate acuminate 
3-d nerved, petals lanceolate. 
Sennae spurise aut Aspalatho affinis arbor siliquosa, foliis 
binis, Sloane, I. 51 — Bauhinia foliis bilobis, spicis laxis termi- 
nalibus, Browne, 286. — B. porrecta, Swartz , Prod. 66.- — Jacq. 
Schcenb. t. 100. — Sims, Bot. Mae/. 1708. 
HAB. Common: lower hills, in thickets. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
A shrub, about 6 feet in height : branches erect. Lobes of 
the leaves 3-nerved, besides the middle nerve common to both ; 
nerves subparallel. Racemes terminal. Flowers tinged with 
red, or sometimes white. Nine of the stamens monadelphous 
and sterile ; the tenth long, free, antheriferous. 
B. Aukita, distinguished by “ glabrous leaves, leaflets unit- 
ed for d th of their length oblongo-lanceolate 8-nerved, and pe- 
tals ovate,” is said to be indigenous, although it has not been 
noticed by any of the Botanists who have visited the Island. 
B. pubesoens Z)<? Cand. is probably a variety of B. tomentosa 
produced by cultivation, the latter being a very common shrub 
in our gardens. 
END OF VOLUME FIKST. 
Glasgow Edward Khull, Printer to the University. 
