Millettia.] XLVII. § papilionace^e (baker). 131 



Pod linear- oblong", 6-7 in. long, f in. broad, coriaceous or almost woody, 

 glabrous. — Sesbania ferruginea, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 279. 

 Berebera ferruginea, Hochst. in Flora, 1846, 597. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 

 190, t. 35. Inga byrsinocarpa, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb, Abyss. No. 536. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper I Quartin- Dillon, Petit. 



Berebera is the Abyssinian name of this handsome tree; the powdered seeds are 

 thrown into the water to stupify fish. 



11. M. rhodantha, Baill. Adans. vi. 223. An erect tree 30-40 ft. 

 high, with yellow aromatic wood, the branches densely brown-velvety. 

 Petioles 1 in. long". Leaves 6-8 in. long, with 13-21 slightly oblique 

 oblong pointed subcoriaceous leaflets, lJ-2^ in. long, 8-9 lines broad, 

 glabrous above, brown-velvety on the midrib and glaucescent beneath, 

 on petiolules 1 line long with persistent setaceous stipellae. Flowers 

 in moderately dense axillary racemes about as long as the leaves, the 

 lower flowers fascicled, the clusters casually stalked. Pedicels 2-3 

 lines long, brown-velvety. Calyx \ in. deep, the teeth very short. 

 Corolla violet, \ in. deep, the orbicular standard 4 lines broad, at first 

 thinly silky on the back. Stamens all connate. Pod (only seen im- 

 mature) linear-oblong, sessile, many-seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot 1 Sierra Leone, Morson I 

 Lower Guinea. Angola, Br. Welwitsch! 



23. PLATYSEPALUM, Welw. mss. 



Calyx with a short campanulate tube clasped by two large persistent 

 oblong bracteoles ; two upper teeth connate into a broad emarginate 

 cucullate lip as long as the corolla, three lower linear-lanceolate. Stan- 

 dard obcordate, shortly unguiculate, wings and keel nearly equal- 

 ling it, the former blunt, the latter slightly incurved, obtuse, shortly 

 auriculate and unguiculate. Upper stamen free from the base ; anthers 

 uniform, oblong, versatile. Ovary linear, sessile, 5-7-ovulate j style 

 filiform, glabrous, incurved; stigma minute, terminal. Pod linear- 

 lanceolate, compressed, woody, 2-valved, ultimately dehiscing, 3-5- 

 seeded. 



An erect small tree, with imparipinnate leaves, and the general habit of MiUettia, 

 from which it principally differs by the extraordinary calyx. 



1. P. violaceum, Welw. mss. A tree 10-20 ft. high, branches 

 clothed with fine grey-brown pubescence. Petioles 12-15 lines long. 

 Leaves 4-10 in. long with 7-9 oblong or obovate-oblong acuminate or 

 cuspidate coriaceous leaflets, pale green and rather shining above, 

 opaque and finely silky on the ribs beneath, terminal one 3-6 in. long, 

 1J-2J in. broad; petiolules 2 lines long with persistent setaceous 

 stipellae. Flowers in copious rigid ascending axillary panicles with 

 short arcuate ascending racemose branches naked downwards. Pedicels 

 1-2 lines long, densely silky. Calyx 7-8 lines long, bracteoles half as 

 long, both densely grey-silky, the hooded violet upper lip J in. broad. 



