bau·hin·i·a 
(bô-hĭnē-ə, bō-ĭn-)
(bô-hĭnē-ə, bō-ĭn-)n.
Any of various tropical or subtropical trees, shrubs, or woody vines of the genus Bauhinia in the pea family, having two-part or deeply cleft leaves and showy, variously colored flowers.
[New Latin, after Jean Bauhin (1541-1612) and Gaspard Bauhin (1560-1624), Swiss botanists.]