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estrophiolata. Embryonis radicula ssepius (ubi visa) inflexa, in cotyledonibus. 
aceumbens. 
The Millettias extend completely across the tropics of the Old World from 
the west coast of Africa to the Philippine Islands and Australia, and. reach 
beyond them to the south in Africa and Australasia and to the north in the 
far east of Asia. They vary in habit, like some other large genera of woody 
Papilionacee, in conformity with their vast range from small shrubs to large 
forest trees like M. caffra. In tropical Africa some species are extensively 
grown as shade-trees along the roads, having when in leaf the habit of small 
Ashes and being covered when in flower with masses of white blossoms. 
Besides its timber and the ornamental flowers of some species the genus 
affords few products that are of use to man. Certain species, both in Africa 
(e. g. M. ferruginea) and in Asia (e. g. M. Piscidia, M. macrocarpa, and 
M. iehyochtona), are known to the native fishermen as possessing in their 
wood or fruit a substance which has the property of stupefying fish. The 
stems of the small climbing species are often remarkably tough and are used 
for the purpose of rough cords by the countrymen of China and other 
countries. A fibre is prepared from the stems of the common Indian 
M. auriculata, but it is of little commercial value. 
GEOGRAPHICAL Disrripution.—As above stated, Millettia is widely dis- 
tributed over the warmer regions of the Old World. It reaches from Sierra 
Leone and Abyssinia in north tropical Africa to the temperate regions of 
the south of that continent. In Asia its area includes Japan, the whole 
of China proper, Formosa, the Philippines, the western islands of the Malay 
Archipelago, Indo-China, Siam, the Malay Peninsula, Burma, and the whole 
of India except the extreme west. It shares iis north-eastern regions with 
the closely allied Westaria, which extends there from North America. In the 
south-east it merges into and almost encloses the areas of Fordia, Padbruggea, 
and Adinobotrys, distinguished from it by their fruit, and finally reappears in 
Australia with the peeuliar fruit-characters which characterize the section 
Austromillettia. In its African area it includes the generic regions of 
Schegilerodendron, Craibia, Platysepalum, and Dewevrea, which are indis- 
tinguishable from it in general habit, but separable by well-marked 
peculiarities of foliage or calyx. 
Hisrory. 
The first species of what is now known as Millettia to reach Europe 
in a botanical collection appears to have been JM. reticulata, which was 
gathered by Staunton in 1793 * in Kwangtung, China, while accompanying 
Macartney’s Embassy to the Emperor of that country, but his specimens 
* The actual specimen is in the British Museum Herbarium. 
