108 li. LEGTJMi:NOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) l_Millettia. 



finely silk}-. Leaflets of mediiiin size, reaching 3-4 in. long, both sides green, quite 

 glabrous; petiolules short. Eacemcs copious, short, simple, laxly floAvered; pedicels 

 .j_| in., often geminate, neither bracteate nor bracteohite. Calyx ^—^ in., thinly 

 silky; teeth short, obtuse. Corolla snoAv-^vhite, f-| in. Pod 3-4 in. by 1-1^ in., nar- 

 rowed to a point; valves quite smooth, dehiscing earlier than in the other species, 



17. HI. Brandlslana, Kurz m Journ, Amit. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2, CO; 

 leaflets 13 or more lanceolate glabrous subcoriaceous stipellate; standard silky 

 on the back^ stamens diadelphouS; pod thin compi^essed ligulate-oblong glabrous. 



BiR^tA, near Yomah, Kurz, 



An erect tree, %Yith slender terete glabrous branches. Leaflets 1-1|- in. long, narrowed 

 to an obtuse tip, rather rounded at the base. Racemes very lax, panicled at the end of the 

 branches and sending out small shoots from the lo-vver nodes; pedicels much shorter 

 than the calyx ; bracts minute, glabrous, lanceolate. Calyx ^ in. glabrous, broadly 

 campanulate ; teeth deltoid. Corolla lilac, |-| in. Tod 3-4 in. long, under an inch 

 broad, 2-4-seeded, the valves quite smooth and flat, twisting when dried. 



18. M. eriantba, BentJi. PL Jung. 250 ; leaflets 5 obovate-oblong cus- 



Sidate rigidly coriaceous exstipellate glabrous, standard densely silky, stamens 

 iadelphous, pod oblong lignose rugose glabrescent. 



Forests of Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



A woody climber, with only the youngest branches silky. Leaflets reaching 0-6 in. longt 

 very rigid in texture, both sides green and quite glabrous; petiolules ^-f in. Eacemcs 

 copious, short, subsossile, dense, subspicate ; bracts large, roundish, densely silky, clasp- 

 ing and hiding the buds. Calyx subsessile, ^ in., clothed with bright yellowi sh -bro■^v'Jl 

 silky pubescence, like the bracts and standard ; teeth as long as the tube, broad, imbri- 

 cated. Corolla 3-1 in., densely silky. Pod beaked, turi^id, 3 in. lon^r, 1 -seeded, sub- 

 mdehiscent. 



in. BK. atropurpurea, 



rigidly coriaceous exstipellate glabrous, standard glabrous, stamens diadelphous 



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pod oblong convex smooth rather woody dabrous. Ponjramia atropurpurea; 

 Wall Cat. 5910 ; Bl As. liar. t. 78. 



Forests of Martabax, Tenasseeim, Malacca, and Pexaxg.— Distrib. Su- 

 matra, . 



An erect tree, -with thick, glabrous branches. Leaflets 4-fi in. lonrr. verv tliick and 



florescence a dense terminal panicle above the leaves; racemes not -branched; bracts 



minute, ovate; pedicels i-j in. Calyx \ in., thinly silky; teetti short obscure. 

 Corolla dark purple, 1 in. long. Tod narrowed to both ends, 3 in. long, subindchis- 

 cent, 1 -seeded in our specimens. 



SuBGKX. 2. Otosema, Benth. Standard aiuicled at the base on Wh 

 sides of the claw. Stamens monadelnhous. ^ 



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 ispidate membmnoius thinly silky, flowers shortly pedicellate, po** 

 woody permanently sericeous. Brand, For. Flor. 138. Robinia macrophyU^* 

 Boxh. FL Ind. iii. 329. Pon^mia macrophyUa, Grah. m Wall. Cat. 5803- 

 Otosema macropbylla, Benih. PI. Jung. 249. Amerinmiua pallidum, HamW'* 



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