Bauhinia herrerae (Britton & Rose) Standl. & Steyerm.

Schnella herrerae Britton & Rose, sp. nov
A vine or weak shrub with long slender branches, the twigs and inflorescence brownpubescent. Leaves nearly orbicular, 5 cm. broad or less, broadly cordate at base, cleft to near the middle, the lobes acutish or obtuse, glabrate above, .softly pubescent beneath; petioles 1-2 cm. long, brownish pubescent; stipules linear to filiform, 6-S mm. long; inflorescence terminal, 5-10 cm. long, many-flowered; pedicels 8-15 mm. long, ascending; flower-buds ovoid, pointed; caly. densely pubescent, 8 mm. long, its teeth triangular-ovate; petals 1.5-2 em. long, white (?); stamens glabrous; ovary pubescent.
Oaxaca and Yucatan; British Honduras? Type collected at Casolapam, Oaxaca, November, 1913, F. Sala'ar.