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ny : ftem prickly.. This .is an ereth inelegant Ihruh, the 
height of a iiianJ The flowers are large, white, and have ' 
a {cent which’iS ibmevvhat unpleasant. Miller fays, that 
it rifes to the height of lixteen or eighteen, feet, in Jamai¬ 
ca, where it grows plentifully, and the other fugar illands 
itr America; "that the.ftalks are terminated by feveral long 
fpikes of yellow flowers, which are fucceeded by bordered 
pods, about three inches long, containing two .or three 
fuelling feeds ; that thefe pods are glutinous, and have a 
ftrong balfamic feent, as have alio the leaves "when bruif- 
ed ; and that it is called in America tiie Indian favin-trce, 
from its ftrong odour, fomewhat refembling the common 
j'avin. According .to Jacquin, it is frequent about Car- 
thagena in woods, Cultivated bv Miller in 1752. 
3. Bauhinia divaricata, or dwarf mountain ebony: leaves 
fmooth ; lobes divaricated, acute, two-nerved ; petals lan- 
ceolate. This is a low ilirub, feldom riling more than five 
or-ft x feet high, dividing into feveral branches. It grows 
naturally in great plenty on the north fide of the ifland of 
Jamaica. Cultivated before 1742, by Robert James lord 
Petre. It flowers from June to September. 
4. Bauhinia ungulata: leaves oVate, lobes parallel. 
This rifes to the height of twenty feet, with a fmooth ftem, 
dividing into many final 1 branches, which are terminated 
by loofe bunches of white flowers ; and thefe are fucceed¬ 
ed by very long narrow comprelfed pods, with eight or ten 
feeds in each, Native of America. Miller fays he receiv¬ 
ed the feeds from Campeachv. 
Bauhinia variegata, or variegated mountain ebony : 
calvxes one-leafed, burfting; petals feflile, ovate; lobes of 
the leaves' ovate obtufe. This rifes, with a ftrong ftem, 
upwards. of twenty feet high, dividing into many ftrong 
branches. The flowers are large, and grow in loofe pa¬ 
nicles at the extremity of the branches, of a purplilh red 
colour, marked with white, and the bottom yellow. It 
2 ,;ows naturally in both Indies, and was introduced here 
in- 1690 by Mr. Bentick. 
6. Bauhinia purpurea, or purple mountain ebony : leaves 
fubcordate, two-parted, rounded, tomentofe underneath. 
1'iiis alio is a tali' tree, but differing from the foregoing 
fort in having-larger leaves, more deeply cut, and a little 
more contracted on the lides. Native of the Eaft Indies, 
where it fiower-s the whole year. Mr. Miller affirms, that 
it grows naturally at La Vera Cruz ; but he feems to have 
miftaken the fpecies. It was introduced here in ' 1 7 78. 
7. Bauhinia tomentofa, or downy mountain ebony: 
leaves cordate, lobes ■ femiorbiculate tomentofe. This 
grows to the height of two fathoms, with a trunk nearly 
fix inches in diameter, and divides into many branches. 
The leaves are much {'mailer than in the foregoing fpecies; 
and the flowers have no fmell. Native of the.Eaft Indies. 
•Mr. Miller fays, that it wasTent him from Campeachy in 
17.30, by the late Dr. Houfto'n: but he feems again to 
confound the fpecies. It was cultivated, according to Ray, 
by Compton biftiop of London in 1687. 
8. Bauhinia acuminata, or fharp-leaved mountain ebo¬ 
ny : leaves ovate, lobes acuminate femiovate. 'Lifts is on¬ 
ly about the height of a man, with a trunk the thicknels 
of the human arm. The flowers are bell-fhaped, of a ve¬ 
ry pure white without any fpots, void of feent. Native 
of the Eaft Indies. Miller fays it grows naturally in both 
Indies, but he has confounded this with the twelfth fpecies. 
9 . Bauhinia emarginata: ftem prickly, leaves cordate 
wirh round lobes, tomentofe underneath. This feldom 
riles more than ten feet high, dividing into many irregular 
branches, armed with ftiort crooked (pines. The flowers 
grow at the extremity of the branches, two or three toge¬ 
ther; thefe are large, and-of a dirty white colour, and are 
fucceeded by ftiort flat pods, eacli containing two or three 
feeds. 
10. Bauhinia rotundata : ftem prickly; leaves fubcordate, 
two-parted, rounded ; flowers fcattered. This rifes twen¬ 
ty .feet high, with a ftrong upright ftem, which fends out 
many branches toward the top farmed with ipines grow¬ 
ing by pairs, which are ltrong and crooked, ihe leaves 
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are heart-fliaped, and grow alternately, having two round¬ 
ed lobes. The flowers are large and white, coming out 
thinly at the ends of tine branches. Both thefe laft are na¬ 
tives of Carthagena in New Spain> We give them -on 
Miller’s authority ; but conceive they are'nothing more 
than varieties of the fecond fpecies. 
11. Bauhinia aurifa, or iong-eared mountain ebony: 
leaves fubtranfverfe at the bate ; lobesjanceolate, porrecl- 
ed, three-nerved ; petals lanceolate. This fort was culti¬ 
vated in 175ft by Mr. Miller; and flowers in September. 
12. Bauhinia porrefta, or fmooth broad-leaved moun¬ 
tain ebony : leaves cordate ; lobes porreftate, acute, three- 
nerved ; petals lanceolate. This tree riles about fifteen feet 
high, having-feveral ftraight trunks about as thick as a 
man’s leg, covered with a whitilb bark, dividing into ma¬ 
ny branches and twigs, making a pleafant top. It grows 
on the hills every where in Jamaica. The wood is very 
hard, and veined with black, whence the name of ebony. 
It was cultivated by Miller in 1739 i a >fd flowers in July. 
13. Bauhinia Candida, or wLite-leaved mountain ebony : 
leaves cordate, pubefcent underneath; lobes ov-ate obtufe ; 
calyxes attenuated upwards, and elongated. This is a na¬ 
tive of the Eaft Indies, where it was obferved by Claude 
Ruffe], Efq. It was introduced in 1777 by Patrick Rul- 
fel, M. D. and flowers in May and June. 
The proper place of the eleventh fpecies fs after the 
third, of which it was fuppofed by Linnaeus to be only a 
variety. The twelfth fttould come in between the feventli 
and eighth. The fifth, thirteenth, and lixth, fttould be 
placed after the eighth. The ninth and tenth may be re¬ 
ferred, as-varieties, to the fecond. There are many other 
fpecies, botli from the Eaft and Weft Indies, not yet fufn- 
ciently determined. The whole genus indeed requires to 
be ftudied anew, in order to eftablifli the fpecies on better 
principles than we polfefs at prefen-t. 
Propagation and Culture. All thefe plants, being natives 
of hot countries, will not thrive in England, unlefs they 
are kept in the bark-ftove. They are propagated by feeds, 
which mttft be procured from the countries where they 
grow naturally, for they do not perfeft their feeds in Eng¬ 
land. The third fort has feveral times produced pods in 
the Chelfea garden, but they have never come to matu¬ 
rity. The feeds fttould be brought over in their pods, 
which will preferve them good. Thefe muff be fown in 
pots filled with light frellt earth, and plunged into a mo¬ 
derate hot-bed of tanners’ bark ; if the feeds are good, 
the plants will come up in about fix weeks, and, in a month 
after, will be fit to tranfplant; when they fttould be care¬ 
fully fttaken out of the feed-pot, fo as not to tear off the 
roots, and each planted into a feparate final! pot filled 
with light loamy earth, and plunged into the hot-bed 
again, being careful to fliade them until they have taken 
frefh root, after which they fttould have freflt air admit¬ 
ted to them every day in warm weather. In the autumn 
they mil ft be placed in the bark-ftove, and treated in the 
fame way as other tender exotics, giving them but little 
water in winter. As thefe plants frequently flower, they 
are worthy of a place in the ftove. 
RA'V.IN,/! [of uncertain derivation. ] A brufti flick like 
thofe bound up in (lender faggots ; a piece of wafte wood : 
He rambled up and down 
With (hallow jefters and rafli bavin wits, 
Soon kindled, and foon burnt. Shakcfpeare. 
B AU'LAS, a town of Syria, fifty miles eaft of Damafcns. 
To BAULK. See Balk. 
BAULTE, a river of PrulTia, which runs into the 
Frifch Half, a little below Frattenburg. 
BAUM,yi in botany. See Melissa. 
BAU'MAN ISLANDS, three illands in the Pacific 
Ocean, difeovered by Roggewin, in the year 1722, appa¬ 
rently pleafant and covered with fruit-trees, and divers 
forts of vegetables. The inhabitants are white, fome of 
them burned by the fun : they are numerous, and armed 
with bows and arrows, but reprefented as of a gentle and 
3 humane 
