322 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Millettia. 



2. MlLLBTTIA RUBIGINOSA, W. & A. 263; F. B. I, ii. 104; 



Wt. Ic. t. 207. 



W. Ghats, in the forests of Tiimevelly and Travancore, up 

 to 5,000 ft, 

 A large climbing shrub with reddish flowers. 



3. MILLETTIA RACEMOSA, Benth. ; F. B. I. ii. 105. Tephrosia 

 racemosa, W. & A. 210. 



1ST. Circars and Deccan, in dry hill forests at low levels, 



from Ganjam to Bellary and Coimbatore. 



A large climbing shrub with thick brown rough bark, 



large leaves, torulose pods and whitish flowers. Yern. Tel. 



Galuga. 



4. MILLETTIA AURIC ULATA, Baker; F. B. I. ii. 108. 



Forests of Ganjam and Yizagapatam, chiefly with Sal, up 

 to 4,000 ft. 



A large climber with light brown bark and wood in alter- 

 nate layers of soft woody and bast tissue. It is sometimes 

 found as a nearly erect shrub. Flowers whitish. The bark 

 gives a rough fibre. Yern. Hind. Ganj ; Ur. Bekorlo. 



13. Sesbania, Scop. 



Herbs, shrubs or small soft- wooded trees, often prickly. Leaves 

 abruptly pinnate, long, narrow ; leaflets numerous, linear-oblong, 

 mucronate, deciduous; stipules lanceolate or setaceous, decid- 

 uous. Flowers in lax axillary racemes ; bracts and bracteoles 

 setaceous, usually early deciduous. Calyx canipanulate, with 

 5 short equal teeth. Corolla much exserted, the petals all with long 

 claws ; standard orbicular or ovate, spreading or reflexed ; wings 

 falcate-oblong; keel petals obtuse or subrostrate. Stamens 

 diadelphous; anthers uniform. Ovary linear, usually stipitate. 

 many-ovuled ; style incurved, glabrous ; stigma capitate. Pod 

 long, linear, narrow, flattened or 4-angled, septate within 

 between the seeds. Seeds transversely oblong, strophiole 0. 



Flowers under - 75 in. long, buds straight : 



Stems without prickles ; standard with 2 appendages at the base 

 which run as keels into the claw ; pods twisted, pendulous : 



Flowers usually *5-'6 in. long, standard appendages long-tailed ; 



pods torulose, 6-9 in. long 1. aegyptiaca. 



Flowers usually '75-1 in. long, standard appendages triangular ; 



pods slightly torulose, 10-12 in. long 2. paludosa. 



