Millettia.'] leguminos^E. 79 



obtuse, or scarcely acuminate, 2 to 3 in. long, smooth and shining above, 

 slightly veined and sprinkled with a few hairs underneath. Flowers rather 

 large, white, intermixed with a primrose-yellow, in racemes of 3 to 6 in. long 

 in the upper axils, flowering from near the base. Pedicels 3 to 4 lines long. 

 Calyx silky-tomentose, with short broad obtuse teeth. Standard near an inch 

 in diameter, rather thick, glabrous or slightly mealy outside. Keel curved, 

 but obtuse, scarcely so long. Pod tomentose, with thick coriaceous valves. 

 Seeds orbicular, flattened. 



Common on Victoria Peak with M. nitida, but not elsewhere, Champion ; also Hance 

 and Wright. Not known out of S. China. 



3. M. Championi, Benth. in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 74. A tall woody 

 climber, like the two last, but more slender and entirely glabrous, except a 

 very slight pubescence on the panicles and young shoots. Leaflets 5 or 7, 

 ovate or oblong, obtusely acuminate, usually about 2 in., but varying from 1 

 to 3 in. long, thinner than in the two last, and the veins much more conspi- 

 cuous. Racemes in the upper axils 1 to 2 in. long, flowering from the base ; 

 the upper ones forming a terminal panicle. Flowers white, about half the size 

 of the two last species ; the standard marked with a green spot at the base, and 

 all the petals quite glabrous. Disk round the ovary very short, sometimes 

 scarcely perceptible. Ovary and young fruit stalked, quite glabrous, with 

 about 6 ovules : the ripe pod has not yet been observed. 



Trailing over rocks on Mount Gough and in the Happy Valley woods, Champion ; also 

 Wright. Wot received from elsewhere. 



Tribe V. HEBYSAREM. 

 Herbs, or very rarely shrubs or trees. Leaves various. Pod separating 

 transversely into one-seeded articles, usually indehiscent, or sometimes re- 

 duced to a single one-seeded indehiscent reticulate article. An artificially 

 distinguished group, having the foliage and other characters sometimes of the 

 Lotece, sometimes of the Galegea, or of the Phaseolece. 



6. .2ESCHYNOMENE, Linn. 



Calyx 5-cleft or 2-lipped. Petals nearly equal, the standard broad, the 

 keel often beaked or pointed. Stamens all united in a sheath open on the 

 upper side, or divided into 2 equal parcels. Pod stalked, linear, flattened, con- 

 sisting of several articles and tipped by the short style. — Herbs or slender 

 shrubs. Leaves pinnate, with several pair of leaflets usually alternate, and a 

 terminal odd one. Eacemes axillary, simple or branched, rarely terminal. 



A considerable genus, chiefly American, with a very few species from tropical Asia and 

 Africa. 



1. JE* indica, Linn.; W. and Am. Prod. Fl. Penins. i. 219; Wight, Ic. 

 t. 405. A slender decumbent or ascending annual, branching at the base, 

 glabrous or slightly rough with a short pubescence. Stipules small, brown, 

 produced at the base below their insertion. Leaflets numerous, usually 20 to 

 30 pair and an odd one, small, linear-oblong. Eacemes few-flowered, often 

 with a small leaf at their base. Flowers yellow, about 4 lines long. Calyx 

 2-lipped, the upper lip entire or slightly 2-cleft, the lower 3-lobed. Staminal 

 sheath cleft above and below, dividing the stamens into two equal parcels. 

 Pod narrow, with several articles. 



