Sesbam'a.] xlvii. leguminos.e. 583 



Hab. Damp open spots. Perak, Temengoh. Perils, Kanga. Dis- 

 trih. Bengal, Burma, Java. 



Excluded Species 



S. GRANDIFLORA Pcrs. Synops. ii. 316; Prain, I.e. 84. Agati 



grandiflora Desv. Jonrn. Bot. i. 120, t. 4. 

 Tall slender tree 20 to 30 ft. high, 8 to 10 in. through. Leaves 



6 to 12 in. long; leaflets 16 to 30 pairs, linear-oblong. 



Racemes i in. long. Flowers 2 to 4, white. Corolla 3 to 



3*5 in. long. Pods 20 in. long. Cultivated for its leaves, 



eaten as a vegetable and in Kelantan at Kota Bharu as 



props for pepper-vines. Singapore, Perak, Kelantan. 



Distrib. Mascarene isles to North Australia. Native 



name : Turi. 

 S. cocciNEA Poir Encyc. vii. 127. 

 A low shrub with similar leaves and deep rose-coloured flowers 



as large. Pods shorter, occasionally cultivated in gardens. 



Origin unknown. 



22. PSORALEA, Linn. 



Herbs or under-shrubs. Leaves simple (or pinnate) gland- 

 dotted. Calyx-tube campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla little exsert ; 

 petals all clawed, upper stamen free ; anthers small uniform. 

 Ovary sessile or short-stalked. Pod ovoid or oblong, i-seeded 

 indehiscent ; pericarp adhering to seed. Species 100, chiefly 

 S. Africa, N. America and Australia. 



(i) P. Corylifolia Linn. Sp. PI. 764. Baker, in Hook. fil. 

 F.B.I, ii. 103; Bot. Mag. t. 665. 



Herbaceous annual branched, about 2 ft. tall, hairy all over and 

 black, gland-dotted. Leaves simple ovate denticulate, base shortly 

 cuneate or round, tip sub-acute, 4*5 in. long, 3*2 in. wide; petioles 

 1*5 in. long. Racemes axillary; peduncles 3 in. long. Flowers 

 crowded in racemes i\5 in. long, yellow, 10 to 30. Calyx '12 in. 

 long, sessile; teeth lanceolate. Corolla hardly exsert. Pod '2 in. 

 long, black, globose. Hab. Sporadic in waste ground. Singapore, 

 Alexandra Road. Perak, Kamuning (Ridley). Distrib. India, 

 Africa. 



23. MILLETTIA, W. and Arn. 



Prain, I.e. 86; Dunn, Jonrn. Linn. Soc. xli. 123. 



Climbing shrubs or trees. Leaves imparipinnate 2 (rarely i) 

 to many leaflets. Panicles large or reduced to racemes of fascicles. 

 Calyx campanulate; teeth short. Petals white or pink; standard 

 ovate or orbicular ; wings oblong. Stamens monadelphous (rarely 

 diadelphous) ; filaments free at tip. Ovary sessile, rarely stipitate, 

 3- to many-ovuled. Pod linear or oblong, coriaceous or woody. 



