NHD54/11

White flower Bauhinia

Bauhinia Plum. ex L; Fabaceae family

Original inscriptions: 大菜麟甲 (front lower right in ink); Tai-yiep-lun-kap (reverse lower right in pencil)

Further inscriptions: W. Ch. (front lower left in ink)

Flowering branch of a Bauhinia white flower plant. Branch reddish and smooth. On each twig, opposite, obcordate leaves on pink pedicels with entire margins and palmate veins. Leaves show dark green colour on the upper surface, and light green colour on the lower surface. At the top of each twig, corymb inflorescence with numerous elongated buds on long pink pedicels; buds slightly elongated, yellow with dark pink edges. On the right, few bloomed flowers; flowers are funnel-shape, with white oblong petals, and numerous pink stamens with yellow anthers. Few, light green tendril curls and shows from the nodes of the leaves. Lower left corner: illustration of dissected flowers members, including five white petals, one set of six small stamens, three longer stamens, pink pedicel with funnel-tubular ovary, and pink, sinuous pistil.

Any further details: Pencil underdrawings visible. White paint partly oxidised.