Bauhinia pringlei S. Watson

Casparea pringlei (S. Wats.) Britton & Rose
Bauhinia Pringlei S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 25: 147. 1890.
A shrub, 3-7 m. high, with slender brown branches, puberulent when young. Petiole 2-4 cm. long; leaves orbicular, 7-15 cm. in diameter, cordate at base, 9-nerved, cleft to below the middle, glabrate above, somewhat pubescent beneath, the lobes rounded; racemes 8-15 cm. long, several-many -flowered ; pedicels 1 cm. long or less; calyx 16 mm. long, puberulent; petals about 3 cm. long, whitish, with a slender pubescent claw;'fertile stamen much shorter than the petals; pistil as long as the petals with a long slender stipe; legume 10-12 cm. long, 10-12 mm. wide, its stipe about 2 cm. long.
Type locality: In the barranca near Guadalajara, Jalisco. Distribution: Jalisco.