April 6, 1893. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
277 
BAUHINIA CANDIDA. 
The Bauhinias, travellers assure us, are amongst the most lovely of 
tropical flowering plants. Owing, however, to the difficulty of inducing 
is about 6 feet in height, and carries its flowers in clusters in the 
axils of the leaves at the points of the shoots. Some of the 
individual flowers measure nearly 4 inches across ; they are pure white, 
delicately veined with green. The pale green leaves are two-lobed, and 
Fig. 54.—BAUHINIA CANDIDA, 
them to flower satisfactorily under cultivation, we have but few oppor¬ 
tunities of forming our own opinions upon their merits. Their 
beauty, as exemplified by a specimen of B. Candida, now flowering 
in the Palm house at Kew, is certainly not overrated. This plant 
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nearly 3 inches across. This species is very rare in gardens, though it 
has been known for over a century. The Kew plant, from which our 
illustration (fig. 54) has been prepared, was raised from seed sent to 
Kew from Madras in 1883 by Sir M. E. Grant Duff.—A. B. 
