104 L. LEGIJMINOS.E. (J. Gr. Baker.) [Milleitia. 



20. IKHZiXiSTTIA, Wt. & Arn. 



Trees or large shnibs^ iiPiially clira"bers. Leaves ocld-pinnate. Floicers sliowy^ 

 in axillary racemes, often fascicled, simple or pauicidate and terminal. Cahjx 

 campanidate ; teeth generally short or nearly obsolete. Corolla much exserted ; 

 petals with long claws ; standard broad; keel not beaked. Stamens monadel- 

 phoiis or diadelphous, filaments filiform ; anthers imiform. Ovary sessile, linear, 

 tew-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved, glabrous, stigma capitate. Fad linear or 

 oblong, 1- or few-seeded, flat or turgid, late in dehiscing or hardly dehiscent. 

 DiSTMB. Species 40-50, spread through the tropics of the Old World. 



SxTBGEiif. 1. Sumillettia. Statulard not auricled at the base. Stamens 

 monadelphous or diadelphous. 



* Leaves lustrous beneath, ivith thin silky jmbescence, 



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1. M. sericea, IV. 4' -4. Prodr. 263 ; leaflets 7-9 coriaceous obovate-ob- 



long cuspidate exstipellate sericeous below, standard densely silky on the back> 

 stamens monadelphous, pod linear velvety. Benth, PL Jung. 248. Pongamia 

 sericea, Vent, ; DC, Prodr. ii, 41G. Dalbergia angustifolia, Hassh. PL Jav, i2ar. 

 399. 



Forests of Birma, Malacca, Pesang, and Sincapoee. — Distric. Malay 

 Islands. 



A Avoody climber, the branchlets covered with fine short brown pubescence. Leaves 

 1 ft. or more long ; leaflets 6-9 in. long, shining and glabrous above, on potiolules 

 J-§ in. long; pubescence beneath grey or pale brown. Racemes lateral, 6-9 in. long, 

 the lower nodes with very short branches, bearing dense fascicles of pedicellate flowers. 

 Calyx ^ in., silky, scarcely toothed. Corolla ^-^ in., reddish, very silky. Pod 

 4-5 in. long, densely coated with thick dark brown velvet. 



2. SI. rubig'inosa, IF. 4* A P/-orfr. 263 ; leaflets 5-7 coriaceous obovate- 

 oblong cuspidate stipellate sericeous beneath, standard densely silky on the back, 

 stamens diadelphous, pod oblong glabrescent. WiyJit Ic. t 207. 



Hills in the Gabnatic near Courtallum, Wight. 



Habit of the preceding, the branchlets and underside of the leaves coated with 

 persistent shining yellowish-brown silky down. Leaflets ^-^ in. long, not shining, 

 when young sericeous also above ; stipellae obscure ; petiolules ^-§ in. long. Bacemes- 

 nearly as long as the leaves, most of the nodes bearing short branchlets, on the tip of 

 which the flowers are fascicled. Calyx campanulate, silky, ^ in., short-pedicefled. 

 Corolla reddish, ^ in., densely silky. Pod 2-3 in, long, sublignose, 2-3'Seeded, 

 when young densely velvety. 



late-oblon 



nc, splendens, W, % 



dong cuspidate stipellate 



back, stamens diadelphous. 



Habit 



Anamallax 



coated persistently -with white or yello^vish-browu shining short silky hairs. Leaflets 

 6-9 in. long, opaque, glabrous above; Btipellse setaceous; petiolules ^-^in. Racemes 

 shorter than the leaves, the nearly sessile flowers densely fascicled at the end of short 

 branchlets. Calyx ^-^ in., densely silky, with a pair of small ovate bracteoles. Corollor 

 reddish, :^ in. long. Ovary linear, densely silky, 4-5 ovulate. Pod not seen. 



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