Materials for a Flora of the 'Malayan Peninsula. 



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Inflorescences in axillary or terminal racemes or panicles ; 

 leaves scattered alon^ the branches : — 



Standard not auricledat the base of the lamina (§ Eumil- 

 lettia^, or auricles only represented by callosities : — 



Leaves lustrous beneath with thin lepidote silky pubescence ; 

 (pods turgid silky ; leaves exstipellate^ 

 Leaves opaque beneath, ghibrous when mature, or silky 

 only on the nerves beneath (If. Hemsleyana) ; (pods 

 woody) : — 



Pods turgid rusrose; leaves rigidly coriaceous ; racemes 

 densely thyrsoid ; flowers dark-red or purple : (leaves 

 without stipels) : — 



Bracts large snborbicular, young racemes strobilate ; 

 standard silky externally ; pods pubescent 

 Bracts small ovate early deciduous ; standard glab- 

 rous externally ; pods glabrous 

 Pods flat stnooth (lenticelled in M. gfpucescens) ; 

 leaves membranous (snbcoriaceous in M. coerulea) ; 

 racemes l;«x ; flowers white, pink or blue : — 

 Leaflets without stipels, membranous; racemes 

 distinctly peduncled ; pods glabrous (standard 

 2-callose) : — 



Standard glabrous externally ; — 



Pods lenticelled, the sutures slightly winged ; 

 leaflets subglaucous quite glabrous beneath .. 

 Pods not lenticelled the sutures thickened 

 but not winged ; leaflets pubescent on midrib 

 and nerves beneath ... 

 Standard silky externally; (pods not lenticelled, 

 sutures not winged ; leiifl'^ts glabrous beneath) 

 Leaflets stipelLite, subcoriaceons ; racemes very 

 close and short peduucled ; pods pubescent exter- 

 nally ; (leaves glabrous beneath ; flowers blue) 

 Standard auricled at base of lamina (§ Otosema) -, (leaves 

 subcoriaceous opaqie beneath, pods pubescent; : — 



Pods very wide turgid ; leaflets small many obtuse ; 

 flowers pink, or white with pink tinge ; panicles wide 

 short : — 



Leaflets densely velvety beneath ; pod obpyriform, 

 longitudinally channelled, pubescence short, pale- 

 purple brown 



Leaflets glubrescent beneath ; pod oval, not chanel- 

 led, pubescence long, dark-brown 

 Pods flat ; leaflets large few caudate-acuminate ; 

 flowers pure white : — 



Leaflets 5-7, rarely 3 ; pods soft brown- velvety ... 

 Leaflets ."oZifar?/ ; pods pale yellowish-velvety 

 Flowers solitary along leafless stem on conical processes in 

 axils of leaf-scars ; leaves tufted at top of slender stems 



M. serirea. 



M. eriavtJia. 



M. atropurpiirea. 



4. M. glaucescens. 



5. 31. Remdeyana. 



6. M. decipiens. 



7. M. coerulea. 



