128 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Millettia, 
raised. Petiolules 2 lines long, not stipellate. Flowers in a long- 
stalked slightly compound panicle about as long as the leaf with race- 
mose branches. Pedicels very short. Calyx campanulate, 2—24 lines 
deep, slightly brown-silky, the teeth obsolete. Corolla reddish. 
3 in. deep, the orbicular standard } in. broad, quite glabrous on the 
back, the wings and much incurved keel nearly as long. Stamens 
monadelphous. Ovary linear, sessile, very silky, pluriovulate. Pod 
unknown. 
Upper Guinea. Gaboon river, Mann! 
3. M. Thonningii, Buker. A tree 30-40 ft. high, with glabrous 
branches. Stipules none or deciduous. Petiole about an inch long, 
the rachis of the leaf 3-6 in. long, both glabrous; leaflets 7—9, the 
upper oblong acuminate, 3-5 in. long, 2-2) in. broad, the lowest pair 
considerably shorter, the petiolules about 2 lines long, with small 
spreading setaceous deciduous stipelle, subcoriaceous, both sides gla- 
brous, the veins beneath not prominent. Flowers in sessile drooping 
axillary racemes 4-8 in. long. Bracts linear or lanceolate, shorter 
than the slender pedicels, which are 2 lines long, and about equal the 
glabrous or slightly pubescent broadly campanulate calyx. Calyx- 
teeth deltoid, reaching about a quarter down, the lowest the narrowest, 
the two uppermost connate. Corolla }—8 in. deep, lilac or violet, 
standard orbicular, 3 in. broad, glabrous. Upper stamen free above the 
middle. Pod linear-oblong, 6-8 in. long, # in. broad, glabrous, firm, 
subligneous, slightly curved, 5—6-seeded.—Robinia Thonningii, Schum. 
et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 349. WM. Griffoniana, Baillon, Adans, vi. 222. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Thonning, Vogel! 
Barter! Irving! Mann! Griffon du Bellay. Fernando Po, Mann! Senegambia, 
Heudelot! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
A very handsome tree, with copious drooping racemes of pale lilac flowers. Dr Wel- 
witsch has gathered in Congo a plant which differs by having the leaflets alternate 
stead of opposite, and the pods shorter and broader, 24~3 in. long, 10-12 lines broad, 
—3-seeded. 
4, M. drastica, Wel. mss. A shrub or small tree 10-15 ft. high, 
with the habit of Fraainus, with glabrous branches. Petioles 1-2 i. 
long. Leaves 6-12 in. long, with 15-19 obovate or oblong subcoria- 
ceous pointed glabrous leatlets, the terminal one 2-33 in. long, 12-2 
lines broad, on petiolules 2 lines long, with deciduous setaceous st 
pelle. Flowers in stiff short ascending axillary and terminal racemes 
about as long as the leaves, the lower ones 9-3 together. Pedicels 
13-2 lines long. Calyx campanulate. 2-23 lines deep, finely brow? 
or grey-velvety, with deltoid teeth not reaching more than a quarter 
down. Corolla deep purplish lilac, 8—9 lines deep. Standard orbicu- 
lar, 7—8 lines broad, finely silky on the back. Stamens monadelphous- 
Pod sessile, subligneous, glabrous, linear-oblong, compressed, 5-7 
long, 9-10 lines broad, many-seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Cazengo, Golungo Alto, &c., Dr. Welwitsch ! 
