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except the young branchlets which are more or less appressed- 
pubescent, the branches brown, terete, 4 to 5 mm in diameter. 
Leaves 3-foliolate, the leaflets oblong-ovate, coriaceous, brown 
and shining when dry, glabrous, 20 to 28 cm long, 9 to 16 cm 
wide, subequally narrowed to the acute or subacute base and 
to the blunt or somewhat retuse apex, equilateral, the lateral 
nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent on the 
lower surface, the petioles about 1 cm long. Racemes 30 to 
40 cm long, apparently many-flowered, narrowly paniculate, 
flower bearing in the upper two-thirds, the branchlets from the 
nodes 1 to 1.5 cm long, each bearing several flowers, judging 
from the scars of fallen pedicels. Pedicels 1.5 to 2 cm long. 
Calyx about 1 cm long, nearly 1 cm in diameter, truncate, the 
upper side somewhat gibbous. Corolla blue-violet in color, very 
strongly recurved. Standard about 5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, 
very sharply bent upward and backward from the mouth of 
the calyx, acuminate, pubescent inside in the median portion 
below, auriculate at the sharp curve inside; wings strongly 
faleate-curved, their claws 1.5 cm long, the lamina 2.5 cm long, 
1 ecm wide, obtuse, one side auriculate at the base. Keel very 
strongly recurved, when straightened out about 7 cm long, long- 
acuminate, rostate. Fruit apparently fleshy, when dry falcate- 
ovoid, about 5 cm long, 2.5 cm in diameter, not compressed, 
beaked at the apex, contracted at the base into a short stipe. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Montalban, Loher 5935, April 15, 1906. 
The most strongly marked species known from the Philippines, at once 
recognizable by its unusually large leaflets, its large flowers, and the nodes 
of the racemes produced as slender branchlets up to 1.5 cm in length, 
making the inflorescence a narrow panicle rather than a true raceme. 
LUZONIA Elmer 
LUZONIA PURPUREA Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1907) 220. 
This genus and species were described from flowering specimens. The 
fruits are fleshy, oblong to oblong-obovoid in outline, when fresh some- 
what fleshy, cylindric, not at all compressed, about 12 cm long, 5.5 cm 
thick, smooth, shining, purple, short-apiculate at the apex, the valves very 
thick, apparently tardily dehiscent, firm, fleshy, greenish-white in color, 1 
to 1.5 cm thick; sutures not prominent. Seeds usually 4 in each pod, 
ellipsoid, about 3 cm long and 2 cm thick. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Pacdal, Merrill 9685, May, 1914. 
MILLETTIA Wight & Arnott 
' MILLETTIA BRACHYCARPA sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 7 m alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; foliis 
circiter 20 cm longis, imparipinnatis, foliolis circiter 7, oblongo- 
ovatis, subcoriaceis, breviter acuminatis, usque ad 13 cm longis; 
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