88 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. MiLLETTiA SERICEA W. & A. Proclr. 263. A large woody 

 climber 80-100 feet long, in dense forest ; in the open a low spread- 

 ing shrub 8-25 feet high ; stems 3-6 in. diam. ; branches striate shortly 

 finely pubescent. Leaves 8-12 in. long, leaflets terminal and in 3-4 

 opposite petiolulate pairs, without stipels ; obovate to elliptic-oblong, 

 entire, apex bluntly cuspidate, base rounded or cuneate, 3-5 in. long 

 1*5-3 in. wide ; coriaceous, deep-green and glabrous above glossy and 

 silvery-grey or ligbt-brown from a minute scale-like pubescence beneath ; 

 petiolules "2 in. long. Racemes axillary nearly as long as the leaves, 

 slightly pubescent, the nodes not produced, each with the scars of 7-8 

 flowers. Flowers on pedicels '15 in. long bracteolate under the calyx. 

 Calyx wide-tubular, limb truncate '15 in. deep, dark-brown silky exter- 

 nally. Corolla "5 in. diam., standard orbicular long-clawed, whitish 

 pink or blue internally, brown-silky externally, wings clawed, purple or 

 pink with white stripes. V^iillary filament hardly cohering at base with 

 the remaining stamens. Ovary pubescent, style glabrous. Foci 3-7 in. 

 long 1 in. across, densely brown-tonientose with a rusty shining velvety 

 tomentum, turgid when ripe. Seeds 1-3, rarely 4, testa dark-brown 

 smooth ; 1 in. long, '75 in. diam. Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 153 ; Bak. 

 in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, lOi. Fongamia sericea Vent. Hort. Malmais. 

 sub. t. 28 ; DC. Prodr. 11,416. Fhaseolodes sericeum Kuntze Rev. I, 201. 



Yar. typica; leaflets silvery beneath ; sutures of young pods dis- 

 tinctly thickened ; seeds 1-2, rarely 3. 



Perak; common; Scnrtechini! KunstJer ! Wray ! DiSTRlB. Sumatra 

 (Teysmann ! Forbes 3103A ! ) ; Java (Eurz !) 



A small-leaved form of M. sericea is reported from Penang (Curtis n. 844!); 

 Lobb n. 310 in Herb. Kew, not seen by the writer, is noted by Mr. Hemsley as iden- 

 tical with it; and the same plant is also at Kew from Singapore, as it is at Calcutta 

 from Perak (Kunstler n. iOW Wray n. 2364!). Bat the Perak specimens have in 

 some cases lenflets of the ordinary size on the same twig with the small leaflets ; 

 the flowers of this form are exactly like tliose of M. sericea and the Penang plant 

 is therefore not even separable as a variety. 



Yar. mala cce7isis ; leaflets brow^nish underneath; sutures of young 

 pods hardly thickened ; pods longer seeds 3-4. 



Malacca.; Grifilth 17 64^1 ]\ [aing ay 61S\ Goodenoiigh 17061 

 A distinct local form but perhaps hardly a good variety. 



2. MiLLETTiA ERiANTHA Benth. PI. Jungh. 250. A rather slender 

 woody climber 50-80 feet long with only the youngest twigs silky. 

 Leaves 8-11 in. long, rachis glabrous, leaflets terminal and in 2, rarely 

 3, opposite pairs, petiolulate without stipels; obovate-oblong or elliptic 

 shortly cuspidate 2—4 in. long, 1 "25-2*5 in across, ritridly coriaceous 

 pale green and glabrous on both surfaces ; jDetiolules '25 in. Bncemes 

 copious, at first short dense 1-1 '5 in. long and strobilate with large 



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