626 xlvii. leguminos.b. [Bauhinia. 
Singapore and Malacca. Kunstler collected it in Larut, and on 
limestone rocks at Gunong Pondok, and perhaps it is really wild 
there. Distrib. India, Cambodia, Malaya. 
(2) B. mollissima Wall. Cat. 5782; Prain, l.c. 180. 
An erect shrub (or slender climber to 60 ft.). Branches tomen- 
tose, no tendrils. Leaves cordate round, lobes *75 to i *5 i n - 
quite round at tips; nerves 11, glabrous above, and prominent 
puberulous beneath, 3*5 to 4/5 in. long, 4 to 6 in. wide; petioles 
pubescent, 1*5 in. long. Flowers few, racemed; peduncles *5 to 
2'25 in. long, tomentose. Calyx tomentose, lobes linear-lanceolate, 
Fig. 55 .—Bauhinia mollissima. 
1 in. long, reflexed tube as long. Petals oblanceolate, lower four 
2 in. long, red brown with central yellow streak, the upper one 
2*25 in. long, *5 in. wide, red with a branched yellow line, all pubes¬ 
cent outside. Stamens 3 fertile, glabrous. Ovary tomentose. 
Pod pubescent, 4 in. long, 1 in. wide. Seeds 1 or 2 orbicular. 
Hab. Open country north of peninsula, usually a bush, slightly 
scandent or not. Perak, Larut, climber (Kunstler). Penang 
(Wallich). Kedah, Yan. Perlis, Kanga. Distrib. Tenasserim. 
(3) B. calycina Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 61, p. 3. 
B. ferruginea var. excelsa Baker , in Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii. 283. 
A climbing shrub covered with mealy red tomentum. Leaves 
ovate or nearly orbicular, lobes rounded one-third of length, base 
cordate, glabrous, 3 to 5 in. long and wide; petioles 1*5 to 2 in. 
