Compilation
Bauhinia kirkii

Climber; rusty- or cinnamon-tomentose.Leaves submembranous, about 5 in. broad by 4 in. long, with a deeply cordate base, the basal sinus extending about 1/3 towards the shallow broadly bilobed apical sinus; leaflets connate over 2 in. (in our only specimen), broadly rounded above and below, glabrous and reticulate above, softly pilose-tomentose beneath; petiole 2 in. Flowers showy yellow on patent or recurved leaf-opposed peduncles, with the 1/2–1 in. pedicels and calyx outside tomentose. Bracts ovate acute, 1–2 lines. Calyx-tube campanulate, shorter than the nearly equally 5-lobed limb, lobes at length free, 1 1/2 to twice as long as the tube, glabrous within, the 2 posterior lobes slightly carinate. Petals considerably exceeding the calyx, obovate, gradually narrowed to the claw, pilose externally, reticulate, with divergent venation; posterior petal with a bifid basal callus. Stamens unequal, 2 perfect at length much longer than the rest, with linear-subulate or filiform glabrous filaments incurved above and oblong glabrous anthers dehiscing on the inner face; anthers of 8 shorter stamens variously deformed or effete; 2 intermediate stamens with dilated filaments. Gynophore equalling or exceeding the ovary, which is glabrous, excepting on the suture, and biovulate. Legume not seen.