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Caulis prostratus, 15-20 cm. longus, angularis, pinnatim ramosus ; 
rami ad 1 em. longi. Folia lateralia caulina inter se 0°5 mm. 
distantia, ramealia approximata, oblique ovata, cuspidata, 2 mm. 
longa, 0°75 mm. lata, basi latere superiore cordata imbricataque, 
ciliata, utrinqgue plus minusve strigosa; folia intermedia 1°5 mm, 
longa, late ovata, longe cuspidata, dense ciliata. Spicae 8 mm. 
longae, tetragonae ; bracteae e basi ovata cuspidato-acuminatae, 
fortiter carinatae, ciliatae. 
Mavay Peninsuua. Selangor: Klang Gates, Ridley, 13,442 
and 13,446 ; Ginting Bida, Ridley, 7815 and 7825. 
XXI—ADINOBOTRYS AND PADBRUGGEA. 
S. T. Dunn. 
A large proportion of the dense tropical forest which clothes the 
sea shores 0 artaban and Tennasserim consists, according to 
Wallich (Pl. As. Rar. i. (1830), 70 t. 78), of the fine leguminous 
tree which the Burmese call Chukkha. When in flower the crown 
Plantae Junghunianae (1851-5), 249, transferred it to that genus, 
for its oval, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit and the few-ovuled, stipitate 
ovary, well shown in the figure above cited, indicate widely difterent 
characters from all the other Millettias then known. 
Closely allied to this tree in floral structure and in fruiting 
characters, though quite different in habit, are four woody lianes 
from the same part of the world, viz., the slender woody climber 
described by Bentham as Millettia eriantha, the Bornean species 
M. Nieuwenhuisti and two others described for the first time in this 
aper. These share the following combination of characters which 
distinguish them from all true Millettias: inflorescence densely 
crowded, wings and keel semi-sagittate, ovary stipitate, ovules 2 
(or 3), pod one-seeded, indehiscent, and it is therefore proposed to 
make the five species the types of a new genus under the name of 
Adinobotrys (a8iwoce crowded, Porpuv¢ bunch). 
Equally distinct from Millettia, though referred to it in all recent 
floras, are two more lianes which inhabit the dense jungles of 
Selangor and Perak, and possess, like Adinobotrys, stipitate few- 
ovuled ovaries and one-seeded pods. They differ however from the 
latter genus in their loosé inflorescences, wings and keel cuneate or 
rounded below and in their pods which sometimes open naturally at 
maturity. These are M. Maingayi, Baker, and M. oocarpa, Prain, 
When Baker ascribed the above species to Millettta he was 
following the precedent set by Bentham of including plants with 
stalked ovaries and one-seeded indehiscent pods—the pods of his 
species are not known to dehisce—in that genus. He was doubtless 
(1855), 150), had described a very similar plant from the forests of 
Java. Even without fruit Miquel detected the distinction of this 
19444 BR 
