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“3. Leaflets alternate #.......................................... 4 
Leaflets opposite To... ee eee tee tenes 5 
4. Leaflets and petals glandular ...... Me ee sre Schefflerodendron. 
Plants eglandular | ........... TM Ч Craibia. 
5. Pod with one or few very large seeds, always (?) indehiscent — .... 6 
Pod dehiscent .......... TE DD 7 
6. Inflorescence Тах............................................. Padbruggea. 
Inflorescence crowded....... ОГА TEM Adinobotrys. 
T. Ovary 2-ovuled, pod 2-seeded ................................ Fordia. 
Ovary many-ovuled...... Mee e mH e eee ees 8 
B. Calyx with 4-5 nearly equal teeth or truncate .................. Millettia. 
Calyx lobes 2 or very unequal .................... ........... 9 
9. Calyx 2-lobed ....................... DEM .. Dewevrea, 
Calyx with one lobe much larger than оШшютз.................... Platysepalum. 
Monrnorocy. 
Stem.—The habit, as has already been said, varies to a considerable extent, 
and the degrees of arborescence or dependence upon the support of stronger 
plants are nearly always associated with corresponding peculiarities of the 
leaves or flowers. It thus happens that several of the sections, all of which 
are founded principally upon the characters of the latter organs, consist 
of plants of similar habit. Thus the A/roscandentes are all climbers, the 
Sericanthe are all erect. The arborescent species are mostly of small or 
medium stature, though a few fine timber-trees occur among them. 
The climbers vary from large and heavy lianes, such as M. auriculata of 
the tropical forests of India, to the small slender creepers which adorn the 
hedges and wood-borders of China and Japan. In several observed cases 
these climbers emit leafless, 
whip-like shoots, often many yards in length, 
which trail along the ground or work their way up trees by means of 
reflexed hairs, stipules, or bent petioles. 
Buds.—One section of the genus, viz. Compresso-gemmati, is peculiar in 
having its leaf-buds flattened tangentially to the stem, the bud-scales being 
narrowly boat-shaped and each hooked in turn over the opposite lower one 
by their hooded tops, or in one species (M. cafra) the outer scale being 
completely wrapped round the others, keeled at both sides, and opening down 
the inner face. 
Leaves.—Most of the spacies are evergreen, but in a large number, such as 
M. Thoaningü, the leaves fall just before the flowers are produced, the tree 
remaining leafless for a few weeks during the flowering period. Others, in 
regions with a cold or dry season, are bare for a longer period. The stipules 
are seldom persistent and are usually narrow and pointed, but in some cases 
they remain up to or even after the fall of the leaf. In M. micans they are 
large, blunt, and peltately attached near the base. The leaflets, varying 
* One African species has simple leaves. 
T One species from the Malay Peninsula has simple leaves. 
