Botanical Name - Bauhinia

----- Bauhinia, Linn. ; F . B . I . , II - 275.

----- Tree, shrubs or climbers. Leaves simple, deeply cleft at tip with 2 more or less connate leaflets. Flowers showy, in copious simple or panicled racemes. Calyx-tube short ; limb spathaceous or 2-5-cleft. Petals 5, sub-equal, usually clawed. Stamens 10, all or 3-5 perfect, the others rudimentary or absent. Ovary indehiscent or 2-valved.