A REVISION OF THE GENUS MILLETTIA. 133 
A Revision of the Genus Лена, Wight et Arn. By STEPHEN ThovTE 
Рх В.А, F.L.S. F.R.G.S., sometime Superintendent of the 
Botanical an 1 Forestry Department, Hongkong, China. 
[Read 20th June, 1912.] 
Mitvertia, Wight et Arn. Prodr. 263 (1834) *; Meissn. Pl. Gen. 95 
(1836) * ; Endi.f Gen. Pl. 1304 (1836) *; Benth. in Miq. Pl. Jungh. 
247 (1851-5) * ; Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. i. (1855) 153 ; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Pl. i. (1865) 498 1 ; Baill. Adans. vi. 222 ; Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 
Afr. ii. 126 (1871) ; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. (1876) 104 ; 
Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. (1877) 350 ; Engl. u. Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
ii. 111. 270 (1894) ; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. п. 358 (1897) ; 
Brandis, Indian Trees, 219 (1906). 
AMarquartia, Vog. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) 85, t. 1. 
Callerya, Endl. Gen. Suppl. iii. 104 (1843). 
Berrebera, Hochst. in Flora, 1846, 597. 
Fornasinia, Bertol. Misc. Bot. viii. 18, t. 1 (1849). 
Otosema, Benth. in Miq. Pl. Jungh. 248 (1851-5). 
Arbores et frutices seandentes vel erecti, Folia imparipinnata, 2-multi-juga 
(rarissime trifoliata vel unifoliata) ; foliola sepius subcoriacea, reticulato- 
penninervia, inderdum stipellata. Panicule ample, anguste vel ad racemos 
nodosos reducte. — Calyz late campanulatus, dentibus brevibus vel rarius 
tubo paullo longioribus vel rare obseuris, duobus superioribus sepe partim 
vel omnino coalitis. Petala кере purpurascentia ; vexillum ovatum vel 
orbieulare, patens vel reflexum, sericeum, pubescens vel glabrum, supra 
unguem intus nudum, callosum vel auriculatum ; ае oblongæ vel rarius 
ovatie, basi ut petala carinze cuneate, truncate vel hamatze, carinee inderdum 
adherentes; carinæ petala conformia, obtusa, postice paullo imbricata, 
ecoherentia, Stamina sepissime monadelpha, vexillare basi solutum, interdum 
autem diadelpha; filamenta apice libera, filiformia; anthers ovate, uniformes. 
Discus breviter cylindricus, annularis vel nullus. Ovarium sessile vel rarius 
stipitatum, lineare, 3-multi-ovulatum ; stylus inflexus, teres vel complanatus, 
apice glaber, stigmate parvo, terminali. Legumen lineare vel oblongum, 
compressum vel crassum, rigide coriaceum vel lignosum, interdum anguste 
alatum, dehiscens, 2-valve. Semina lenticularia, orbiculata vel reniformia, 
* Excluding the description of the pod as indehiscent. 
T Endlicher and a few early authors used the spelling М: ека. 
i Excluding the synonym Padbruggea. 
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