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glabrescent ; stigma penicillate. Tephrosia amoena Wall, in Hort. 

 Calcutt. not of Eckl. 



Penang; Curtis! Malacca; Maivgaij ! Berry! Dtstrib. N. India. 



This differs from Wight and Arnott's T. HooTceriana {T. colutea Wight in Wall. 

 Cat. 5647 not of Pers.) in having leaflets almost twice as long and glabrous above ; in 

 true T. Uoolceriana the leaflets are pubescent, above as well as beneath. As Hamilton 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, 546 gives the alternative name Tephrosia hirta to the 

 Galeg'i. hirta cited under this species by Mr Baker, it must follow, if Mr. Baker's 

 identification be correct, that the name T. hirta Ham. should be cited for the species. 

 Dr. Hamilton's diagnosis, however, is of a plant with "falcate" pods in "dense" 

 racemes, two characters which exclude T. hirta from this species and which point to 

 its being a form of T. villosa. 



Tliere is little doubt that in a critical review of the genus the Malayan 

 and North Indian plant should be looked on as specifically distinct from the true 

 1\ Eooheriana of Southern India ; but as an African T. amoena Eckl. has already 

 been publislied, Dr. Wallich's MSS. name is not available. Tlie species might, 

 however, be known as Tephrosia subaincena. The Tephrosia amoena " Pers." cited by 

 Mr. Baker does not exist. 



26. MiLLETTIA W. & A. 



Trees, shrubs or large woody climbers with odd-pinnate, rarely- 

 1-foliolate leaves; the leaflets oj^posite and usually large, generally 

 stipellate. Flowers hirge and showy in axillary solitary or fascicled 

 racemes and in terminal panicles, the florets single or in fascicles along 

 the rachis. Calyx cup-sbaped lobed or slightly toothed ; teeth 5 or the 

 2 upper connate or absent. Corolla ranch exserted, petals long-clawed; 

 standard broad spreading or reflexed, auiicled or not at the base ; wings 

 free or only cohering at the tip, oblong sickle-shaped ; keel incurved 

 obtuse. Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous, the vexillary filament 

 beino- united at the base or as far as the middle with the others, or 

 being quite free ; anthers uniform, filaments filiform. Ovary linear 

 sessile or shortly stalked surrounded at base by an annular disc-like 

 sheath ; ovules rather numerous ; style filiform incurved glabrous, stigma 

 capitate. Pod linear, lanceolate or oblong, usually compressed and flat, 

 occasionally turgid; thickly coriaceous or woody ; late or hardly dehiscent. 

 Species about 60 ; especially prevalent in Indo-China and Malaya. 



The genus Millettia is retained here because its species are familiar to residents 

 in the east under this name. But, as Baron von Mueller has shown, tliere is no room 

 for a genus Millettia apart from Wistaria. The name Wistaria unfortunately, 

 though it has come into common use among horticulturists, is not the one that was 

 originally given to the genus. The oldest name, as pointed out by Dr 0. Kuntze, is 

 Phuseoloides and this, in a modified form, that author proposes to employ. Adjec- 

 tives are not, however, advisable as generic names and the name Kraunhia which, 

 as Sir Joseph Hooker and Mr. Jackson point out, is the earliest unobjectionable 

 name, appears to be that which, when the two genera are united, must be employed 

 for their species. 



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