104 L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) [Millettia. 



20. BZZXi&ETTIA, Wt. & Am. 



Trees or large shrubs, usually climbers. Leaves odd-pinnate. Floivers 

 in axillary racemes, often fascicled, simple or paniculate and terminal. Calyx 

 campanulate ; teeth generally short or kearly obsolete. Corolla much exserted ; 

 petals with long claws ; standard broad ; keel not beaked. Stamens monaclel- 

 phous or diadelphous, filaments filiform ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, linear, ' 

 few-ovuled^, style filiform, incurved, glabrous, stigma capitate. Pod linear or 

 oblong, 1- or few-seeded, flat or turgid, late in dehiscing or hardly dehiscent. 

 DISTEIB. Species 40-50, spread through the tropics of the Old World. 



STTBGEN. 1. Sumillettia. Standard not auricled at the base. Stamens 

 monadelphous or diadelphous. 



* Leaves lustrous beneath, with thin silky pubescence. 



1. Sip sericea, IF. # A. Prodr. 263 ; leaflets 7-9 coriaceous obovate-ob- 

 long cuspidate exstipeltafe sericeous below, standard densely silky on the back, 

 stamens monadelphous, pod linear velvety. Benth. PL Jung. 248. Pongamia 

 sericea, Vent. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 41G. Dalbergia angustifolia, Hassk. PL Jav. Rar. 

 399. 



Forests of BIRMA, .MALACCA. PENANG, and SINGAPORE. DISTRIB. Malay 

 Islands. 



A woody climber, the branchlets covered with fine short brown pubescence. Leaves 

 1 ft. or more long ; leaflets 6-9 in. long, shining and glabrous above, on petiolules 

 ^- 1 in. long; pubescence beneath grey or pale brown. Racemes lateral, 6-9 in. long, 

 the lower nodes with very short branches, bearing dense fascicles of pedicellate flowers. 

 Calyx in., silky, scarcely toothed. Corolla |-^- in., reddish, very silky. Pod 

 4-5 in. long, densely coated with thick dark brown velvet* 



2. T&. rubig-inosa, IF. $ A. Prodr. 263 ; leaflets 5-7 coriaceous obovate- 

 oblong cuspidate stipellate sericeous beneath, standard densely silky on the back, 

 stamens diadelphous, pod oblong glabrescent. Wight Ic. t. 207. 



Hills in. the CARNATIC near Courtallum, Wight. 



Habit of the preceding, the branchlets and underside of the leaves ' coated with 

 persistent shining yellowish-brown silky down. Leaflets 4-8 in. long, not shining, 

 when young sericeous also above ; stipellse obscure ; petiolules ^ | in. long. Racemes 

 nearly as long as the leaves, most of the nodes bearing short branchlets, oh the tip of 

 which the flowers are fascicled. Calyx campanulate, silky, \ in., short-pedicelled. 

 Corolla reddish, |- in., densely silky. Pod 2-3 in. long, sublignose, 2-3-seeded, 

 when young densely velvety. 



3. M. splendens, IF. # A. Prodr. 263 ; leaflets 7-9 coriaceous oblanceo- 

 late-oblong cuspidate stipellate sericeous below, standard densely silky on the 

 back, stamens diadelphous. 



Tropical forests of the NILGHIRIS and ANAMAIXAY hills. 



Habit and inflorescence of the two preceding, the branchlets and leaves beneath 

 coated persistently with white or yellowish-brown shining short silky hairs. Leaflets 

 6-9 in. long, opaque, glabrous above ; stipellse setaceous ; petiolules - in. Racemes 

 shorter than the leaves, the nearly sessile flowers densely fascicled at the end of short 

 branchlets. Calyx - in., densely silky, with a pair of small ovate bracteoles. Corolla 

 reddish, \ in. long. Ovary linear, densely silky, 4-5 ovulate. Pod not seen. 



* Leaves opaque, pubescent beneath. 



4. B. pulchra, Benth. MSS. ; leaflets small 15-19 scarcely subcoria- 



