OF THE GENUS MILLETTIA. 193 
68. M. Sotnerpu, De Wild. in Ann. Mus. Congo, sér. 5, iii. 204. 
Frutex? cortice pallido rugoso. Folia 3-juga, 15-25 em. longa, rach 
tenuiter pubescente, petiolo 3-5-plo longiora; stipule caduce ; foliola 
superiora lateralia breviter acuta, basi rotundata, 6:5—775 cm. longa, papy- 
racea, supra glabra, subtus brevissime sericea, venis marginem appro- 
pinquantibus circiter 9-paribus ; petioluli 3-4 mm. longi; stipellee setacez, 
2-3 mm. longs. Panicule racemiformes, 10-16 em. longe, axillares et ter- 
minales, vel paniculam magnam 20—40 cm. longam ramosam paucifoliatam 
lateralem formantes ; rachis pubescens ; nodi floriferi 2-5 mm. longi. Flores 
fasciculati, 1:3 em. longi ; pedicelli 1-15 mm. longi ut calyces dense brunneo- 
velutini ; bracteze рагу, саис. Calyx anguste ampanulatus, 7 mm. longus, 
dentibus tubo æquilongis ; braeteolie ovate, 1 mm. longi, decidum. Petala 
glabra ; vexilli lamina ovata, basi breviter cordata, auriculis inflexis, ungue 
bis breviore ; ай carinæque petala oblongze, faleatee. Stamina monadelpha, 
vexillare basi solutum? Discus calyci adnatus. Ovarium lineare, sericeum, 
multiovulatum. 
Conco FREE STATE, near Yambuya, Solheid. 
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69. M. FULGENS, Dunn in Journ. Bot. xlix. (1911) 220. 
Arbor parva? cortice primo velutino. Folia 6-juga, 13-17 em. longa, 
petiolo 5-7-plo longiora, rachi laxe adpresse sericea ; stipulie lineares, 3 mm. 
longze, deciduz ; foliola lateralia superiora oblongo-lanceolata, aeuminata vel 
acuta, apiculata, 2°5-4 em. longa, papyracea, supra nitida fuscescentia, subtus 
adpresse sericea, siccitate cuprea, splendida, venis marginem approximantibus 
4-paribus, infra prominulis erecto-patentibus; petioluli 2 mm. longi. Panicula 
terminalis, 16-20 em. longa, rachi ut ramulis braeteisque dense velutina ; 
rami floriferi ad 5 em. longi. Flores tandem distantes, 12—178 em. longi ; 
pedicelli 1 mm. longi; braeteze ramulorum florumque anguste lanceolate, 4 mm. 
longa, persistentes. Calyæ campanulatus, 5 mm. longus, dense sericeo-velu- 
tinus, siccitate brunneo-purpureus, dentibus paullo tubo brevioribus. Petala 
glabra. Legumen immaturum oblongum, compressum, dense velutinum. 
Flowers in August. 
Congo Free Stare: M'bota, Burton (1863). 
The only specimen known to me is in young fruit. 
70. M. nvckNs, Dunn, 1. e. 220.—Lonehocarpus lucens, Scott Elliot in 
Journ. Linn. Soe., Bot. xxx. (1894) 77. 
Frutex ramis puberulis. Folia 5—6-juga, 15-20 cm. longa, petiolo 7-plo 
longiora. rachi adpresse tandem inconspicue sericea ; stipulæ caduce ; foliola 
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lateralia superiora oblongo-lanceolata, gradatim aeuminata, basi obtusa, 
5-7 em. longa, chartacea, margine revoluta, supra lucida, glabra, subtus 
adpresse sericea (siccitate argentea), lucentia, venis marginem appropinquan- 
tibus, 9-paribus erecto-patentibus, infra prominulis; petioluli 3-4 mm. longi ; 
