Bauhinia divaricata L.

Casparea divaricata (L.) H. B. K. ; Jackson, Index Kew. 1: 449. 1895.
Bauhinia divaricata L. Sp. PI. 374. 1753.
Bauhinia porrecia Sw. Prodr. 66. 1788.
Bauhinia latifolia Cav. Ic. 5: 4. 1799.
Bauhinia furcaia Desv. Ann. Sci. Nat. I. 9: 429. 1826.
Casparea porrecia Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 213. 1860.
Bauhinia caribaea Jennings, Ann. Carnegie Mus. 11: 127. 1917.
A shrub, or a tree 5-7 m. high, variously pubescent or glabrate. Stipules 1-3 ram. long; leaves broadly ovate to suborbicular in outline, chartaceous or membranous, 4-12 cm. long, slender-petioled, sometimes broader than long, glabrous, pubescent or densely tomentose beneath, cordate or subtruncate, variously 2-lobed, the lobes acute, obtuse, rounded or acuminate; racemes several-many-flowered, more or less pubescent; pedicels short or slender; bracts small or minute; calyx 12-20 mm. long; petals white or piiik, glabrous, 2-2.5 cm. long, oblong, acuminate, slender-clawed; fertile stamen about twice as long as the petals; legume 5-12 cm. long, 9-15 mm. wide, long-stipitate; seeds 5-10.
Type uocai,it-: America.
Distribution: Cuba; Jamaica; Cayman Islands; southern Texas; Sinaloa and Tamaulipas to San Luis Potosi, Yucatan, Honduras and Guatemala.

Casparea peninsularis (Brand.) Britton & Rose
Bauhinia peninsularis Brand. Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 10: 183. 1922.
A shrub, 2-3 m. high, the young branches brownish, yellowish tomentose. Leaves 3-5 cm. long, 3-6 cm. wide, 7-or-9-nerved, glabrous above, loosely tomentose l^eneath, emarginate at base and apex, the very short lobes rounded; petiole 1.4 cm. long, tomentose; petals white, 2 cm. long, glabrous; legume oblong, glabrous, 5-8 cm. long, 10-18 mm. wide, acute at both ends, its stipe 2.5 cm. long.
Type locality: Pescadero in the Cape region of Lower California.
Distribution: Southern Lower California.

Casparea aurita (Ait.) Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 213. 1860
Bauhinia aurita Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 48. 1789.
A shrub, 1-2.5 m. high, the slender twigs and inflorescence tomentulose or short-villous. Stipules ovate to lanceolate, acute, about 1.5 mm. long, caducous; petioles slender, 5-25 mm. long; leaves ovate, submenbranous, 2-7 cm. long, cordate or nearly truncate at ba.se, 7-or-9nerved, finely reticulate-veined, sparingly short-pubescent above, villous beneath, 2-lobed to about the middle, or deeper, the lanceolate lobes obtuse or acutish, parallel, or slightly divergent; racemes short, few-several-flowered; pedicels 8-15 mm. long; calyx 10-12 mm. long, puberulent; petals long-clawed, glabrous, 14-18 mm. long; legume linear, puberulent, slender-beaked, 8-11 cm. long, 10-13 mm. wide, its stipe 1.5-2.5 cm. long
Type locality; Grown in England from seeds received from Jamaica. Distribution: Jamaica; Hispaniola.

Casparea versicolor (Bertol.) Britton & Rose
Bauhinia versicolor Bertol. Novi Comm. Bonon. 3: 321. 1839.
A low shrub, the slender twigs pubescent. Leaves cordate, 2-lobed, 9-nerved, small, only 1.5-3 cm. long, pubescent, the lobes ovate, divergent, acute; petioles shorter than the leaves; racemes short, few-flowered, pubescent; bracts shorter than the pedicels; calyx pilose; petals lanceolate, long-clawed, white, turning rose, setaceous-acuminate; fertile stamen very long; legume broadly linear, pubescent, many-seeded.
TvPB locality: Tamaulipas.
Distribution: Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Oaxaca.

Casparea confusa (Rose) Britton & Rose
Bauhinia confusa Rose. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 10: 97. 1906.
A shrub, about 2 m. high, the twigs densely short-villous, slender. Petioles pubescent, 1-2 cm. long; leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular in outline, membranous, 5-9 cm. long, sparingly pubescent above and on the veins beneath, rather delicately reticulate-veined, the base broadly cordate or subtruncate, the apex of many of them subtruncate, with 2, short, nearly erect, acute lobes; racemes rather densely villous, several-many-flowered; bracts setaceous, 6-8 mm. long; pedicels 8-lS mm. long; calyx 10-12 mm. long; petals oblong, white, glabrous, slenderclawed, about 15 mm. long; perfect stamen glabrous; legume 10-12 cm. long, 10-12 mm. wide, glabrous, its stipe about 2 cm. long.
Type locality ; Tamasopa Canon, San Luis Potosi. Distribution: San Luis Potosi.

Casparea mexicana (Vogel) Britton & Rose
Bauhiitia mexicana Vogel, Linnaea 13: 299. 1839.
A shrub, the branches somewhat hirsute-pilose. Leaves cordate at base, 5 cm. long, pubescent on both sides, glandular beneath, 7-nerved, lobed for about one-third, the short lobes spreading, acute; petioles 12-18 mm. long, hirsute; raceme hirsute; pedicels somewhat nodding, a little shorter than the calyx; calyx in bud pubescent, 1 cm. long; petals narrowly oblong, tapering below into the narrow pubescent claw; legume 7-8 cm. long, 12 mm. wide, glabrate, stipitate.
Type locality: Near Papantla. Veracniz. Distribution : Known to us from the description only.

Casparea schlechtendaliana (Mart. & Gal.) Britton & Rose
Bauhinia Schhchlendaliana Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Bnix. 10=: 308. 1843. Bauhinia Goldmanii Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 10: 97. 1906.
A tree, 6-8 m. high, the twigs, petioles, under surfaces of the leaves and inflorescence pubescent. Perioles 6-10 mm. long; leaves membranous, 5-7 cm. long, dull, loosely reticulateveined, lobed for about one-third, the lobes triangular, acutish, the base subcordate; racemes rather densely many-flowered; pedicels slender, 1.5-2 cm. long; calyx about 12 mm. long; petals purple, oblong, glabrous, about 2 cm. long, long-clawed; legume 10-12 cm. long, 12-14 mm. wide, reticulateveined, puberulent, its stipe 10-IS mm. long.
Type locality: Rio de las Vueltas near Oaxaca. Distribution: Oaxaca and Chiapas.

Bauhinia divaricata, the bull hoof or Mexican orchid tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Mexico, Central America (except Panama), and the Caribbean.