Millettia.} xlvii. § papilionace2e (baker). 127 



at the base, more or less connate with the others about the middle or 

 quite free ; filaments not dilated ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or 

 rarely stalked, often surrounded by an annular disk or short sheath, multi- 

 ovulate ; style inflexed, terete, glabrous, with a small terminal stigma. 

 Pod linear-lanceolate or oblong, compressed, coriaceous or woody, two- 

 valved, ultimately dehiscing. — Shrubs or trees, distinguished from 

 Lonchocarpus only by the pod ultimately dehiscing, so that for want of 

 fully ripe fruit the place of several of the species is uncertain. 



A moderate-sized genus, with one Australian and two Cape species ; the others which 

 are not African plants of Tropical Asia. 



Leaves and branches glabrous or subglabrous. 

 Exstipellate. 



Standard 1 in. broad 1. M. macrophylla. 



Standard 4 i°' broad 2. M. Mannii. 



Stipellate. 



Standard naked on the back ; leaflets 7-9 3. M. Thonningii. 



Standard silky on the back; leaflets 11-21. 



Stamens monadelphons 4. M. drastica. 



Stamens diadelphous. 



Corolla | in. deep ; leaflets 1^-2 in. long 5. M. gracilis. 



Corolla 9-12 lines deep ; leaflets 4-5 in. long . ... 6. M. versicolor. 

 Leaves beneath and branches pubescent. 

 Exstipellate. 



A climber ; corolla 4 in. deep 7. M. urophyUa,. 



Erect trees ; corolla 9-12 lines deep. 



Standard naked on the back 8. M. aboemis. 



Standard silky on the back. 



Leaflets 7-9, 3-4 in. long 9. M. nudiflora. 



Leaflets 17-21, 1-2 in. long 10. M.ferruginea. 



Stipellate 11. M. rhodantha. 



1. M. macrophylla, Hook.f. Fl. Nigr. 318, t. 32-3. A small tree 

 with terete branches. Leaves glabrous, long-stalked, the rachis often 

 a foot long, firm, and glabrous like the twigs., Leaflets in 5-7 pairs 

 and a terminal one, the upper ones obovate-oblong, 4-6 in. long, 2£-3 

 in. broad, the apex not narrowed, upper surface deep green, glabrous, 

 lower pale-green, very finely silky, the veins raised and ferruginous. 

 Petiolules 2-3 lines long, without stipellae. Flowers in lax long- 

 stalked erect racemes a foot long, the lower ones 5-6 in a cluster on 

 short branches. Bracts lanceolate, deciduous, equalling the silky pe- 

 dicels, \ in. long. Calyx deeply campanulate, 3-4 lines deep, densely 

 brown-silky, the teeth very nearly obsolete. Corolla an inch long, 

 purplish, the standard an inch broad, not silky on the back, the upper 

 filament free to the middle. Pod oblong-lanceolate, 4-5 in. long, \\ in. 

 broad, glabrous when mature, very coriaceous, 4-6-seeded, not at all 

 torulose. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Vogel ! 



2. M. ? Mannii, Baker. A tree or shrub with glabrous branches. 

 Petioles 2-3 in. long. Leaves 8-9 in. long, with 15-17 obovate-ob- 

 long pointed subcoriaceous opaque pale-green glabrous leaflets, the 

 upper ones 3-3 J in. long, 12-15 lines broad, the main veins beneath 



