322 XLTiii. leguminosji;. 



standard broad ; teel uot beaked. Stamens monadelphous or diadel- 

 plious ; filaments filiform ; autbers uniform. Ovary sessile or rarely 

 stalked, usually girt at the base by an annular disk or by a sbort sheath; 

 ovules usually few ; style inflexed, terete, glabrous ; stigma small, 

 terminal. Pod linear or oblong, 1- or few-seeded, flat or turgid, cori- 

 aceous or woody, small, tardily or scarcely dehiscent. — Distrib. Tropics 

 of the Old World ; species 40-50. 



3. Millettia racemosa, Bentli. PL Jumjh. (1^51-55) p. 249, 

 A large -woody climber ; branches glabrous or thinly silky. Leaves 

 reaching 1 ft. long ; petioles 2-4 in. long ; stipules subulate, § in. long. 

 Leaflets 11-15, membranous, opposite, 2-3 by l-lg in., oblong or 

 obovate-oblong, suddenly and obtusely acuminate, glabrous above, pale 

 and more or less silky or glabrescent beneath, base cuneate ; petiolules 

 j^-Y^ in. long; stipels \ in. long, filiform. Flowers close, not fascicled, 

 in axillary and terminal silky-brown racemes 3-9 in. long shorter than 

 the leaves ; pedicels jq— i ^^* ■^'^"S ! bracts conspicuous, linear-cuspidate, 

 I in. long. Calyx -|- in. long, clothed with fine silky-brown hairs ; teeth 

 very short, triangular, the two on the upper side often obsolete. Corolla 

 yellowish-white, about twice as long as the calyx ; standard §-| in. long, 

 quite glabrous, exappendiculate, shortly clawed. Ovary glabrous, shortly 

 stalked ; ovules 6. Pods compressed between the seeds, linear, cori- 

 aceous, 4-8 in. long, 4-g in. broad, scarcely at length dehiscent. Seeds 

 3-5, o\oid. PI. B. I.~v. 2, p. 105 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 68 ; Woodr. 

 in Jcurn. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 422. Milhttia paUida, Dalz. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 13 (1873) p. 187. Wisteria racemosa,~Dsi\z. & Gibs, 

 p. Gl. Wisteria pallida, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 61. — Flowers: Apr.-May. 



Ivonkan: Law], Sfoc/isl, Dai-ell] ; Dapgaon, Woodrow. Gujarat: Dangs, rare, 

 Dahfll cj- Gihtton. S. M. Countky : near Be]ga.uru, Dahell ^- GibiOK—Disimn. India 

 (I3t4iar, Central India). 



14. MUNDULEA, DC. 



Shrubs usnnlly sericeo-pubescent. Leaves imparipinnate ; stipules 

 small. Flowers in terminal racemes ; pedicels fascicled along the 

 rhachis ; bracts small ; bracteoles 0. Calyx campanulate; teelh short, 

 the 2 upper often subconnale. Corolla rosy, exserfed ; standard large, 

 clawed ; wings falcate-oblong ; keel incurved and obtuse at the apex. 

 Stamens monacljelphous ; alternate filaments slightly dilated; anthers 

 uniform. Ovary sessile ; ovules many ; style incurved, subterete, 

 glabrous, inflexed at the very apex ; stigma capitate. Pod subinde- 

 liiscent, linear, flat, the sutures much thickened. Seeds reniform. — 

 DiSTKiB. Species 3, of which 1 (the following) is an inhabitant of 

 Tropical Asia and S. & W. Africa, the 2 others of Madagascar. 



1. Mundulea suberosa, BenOi. PI. Juw/h. (1851-55) p. 248. A 

 small tree 10-15 ft. high; bark pale, corky; branches sericeous, 

 licaves numerous; petioles J-| in. lojig ; stipules small. Leaflets 17- 

 23, opposite or alternate, |-lf by ^| in., coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, glabrous and bright green above, silvery-silky beneath ; petio- 

 lules of the lateral leafiets j\v in., those of the terminal \ in. long. 

 Flowers in close terminal racemes ; pedicels |-j^ in. long, slender. Calyx 

 i in. long, clothed with silky hairs ; teeth short deltoid. Corolla f-g in. 



