Millettia.] LEGUMINOSAE. 321 



12. Millettia, W. & A. 



Trees or large shrubs, usually climbing. Leaves imparipinnate, 

 stipulate, the side leaflets opposite, usually stipellate, penninerved. 

 Flowers rather large, showy, fascicled, rarely scattered, on the 

 rhachis of axillary or terminal racemes or panicles ; bracts and 

 bracteoles usually small, caducous. Calyx campanulate, the 

 teeth short. Corolla much exserted; standard ovate or orbicular, 

 emarginate, spreading or reflexed, glabrous or silky on the back ; 

 wings obliquely oblong, clawed ; petals of keel incurved, obtuse, 

 clawed. Stamens inonadelphous, sometimes diadelphous by the 

 vexillary filament being quite free; anthers uniform, ovate. 

 Ovary sessile or rarely stalked, few-ovuled ; style inflexed, 

 glabrous ; stigma capitate. Pod linear or oblong or oblanceolate, 

 flat or turgid, coriaceous or woody, late in dehiscing. Seeds few, 

 orbicular or reniform, estrophiolate. 



Standard not auricled at the base : 



Leaves very silky -pubescent beneath, especially when young ; 

 stamens monadelphous ; pods velvety, the endocarp not 

 separable : 



Pubescence very shining, silvery ; leaflets 7-9, oblanceolate, 

 obtuse at apex, main nerves 15-25 pairs ; calyx distinctly 

 toothed ; pods flattened, 3-4 in. long, '75 in. broad... 1. splendens. 

 Pubescence ferruginous; leaflets 5-7, obovate, acute at apex, 

 main nerves 8-10 pairs ; calyx-teeth very indistinct ; pods thick, 

 oblong or trapezoid, turgid, 2-4 in. long, 1-1'5 in. broad 



2. rubiginosfi. 



Leaves not silky, merely slightly pubescent ; leaflets 11-15, obovate, 

 obtuse ; calyx-teeth short ; stamens diadelphous ; pods glabrous, 

 linear, torulose, the endocarp separable, 4-10 in. long, *5 in. broad 



3. racemosa. 



Standard auricled at the base ; leaflets 7-9 pairs, obovate, obtuse ; 

 calyx shortly toothed ; stamens monadelphous ; pod linear, flattened, 

 velvety, 6-9 in. long, 1 in. broad, the sutures thickened 



4. auriculata. 



1. MILLETTIA SPLENDENS, W. & A. 263; F. B. I. ii. 104; 

 Bedd. Ic. t, 295. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri and Anamalai Hills, up to 4,000 ft. 

 A large, very handsome climbing shrub with reddish 

 flowers. 



