78 LEGUMiNos^. [Tephrosia. 



others in the middle. Style curved, glabrous, excepting sometimes a tuft of 

 hairs on the terminal stigma. Pod linear, compressed, 2-valved, without par- 

 titions between the seeds. — Herbs, midershrubs, or rarely shrubs. JiCaves 

 pinnate, with several pairs of opposite leaflets, and a terminal odd one, very 

 rarely reduced to a single leaflet ; the veins of the leaflets numerous, parallel, 

 and oblique. Kacemes terminal, leaf-opposed or in the upper axils, often 

 leafy at the base. Flowers 2 to 6 together at each bract. 



A considerable genus, widely spread over the tropical regions of the globe. 



1. T. purpurea, Peis. ; W. and Am. Prod. Fl. Penins. i. 213. Stock 

 perennial or sometimes woody, with slender but stiff decumbent ascending or 

 even erect stems, 1 to 2 feet high, with spreading branches ; J;he younger shoots 

 often silky -hoary, becoming at length nearly glabrous. Leaflets in several 

 rather distant pairs, cuneate-oblong or linear, about ^ in. long. Eacemes 

 terminal or leaf-opposed, the lower ones often veiy short, the upper ones 6 in. 

 or more, with distant fascicles of 3 or 4 pinkish flowers, each about 4 lines 

 long ; the broad standard scarcely exceeding the fine subulate calyx-teeth. 

 Pod rather more than 1 in. long, glabrous or nearly so, with 6 to 8 seeds. 



East Point, Champion. Common all over tropical Asia. 



5. MILLETTIA, W. and Arn. 



Calyx campanulate, truncate, or with very short teeth. Standard broad, 

 without the inflected appendages above the claw of Wisteria and aUied genera. 

 Stamens diadelphous. Ovary suiTOunded by a small cup-shaped disk, shortly 

 stalked ; style glabrous, with a terminal stigma. Pod thick, coriaceous, or 

 almost woody, usually flattened, opening when quite ripe in two valves. — Trees 

 or more fi-equently tall woody climbers. Leaves pinnate, with opposite leaflets 

 and a terminal odd one, usually stipellate. Eacemes usually simple, in the up- 

 per axils, forming a terminal panicle. Flowers 2 or more together, in fascicles 

 or on short common peduncles. 



A considerable genus, dispersed over tropical Asia and Africa. 



Leaflets about 5. Standard purple, 1 in. long, silky-tomentose outside. 1. M. nitida. 

 Leaflets 9 to 13. Standard white or yellowish, near 1 in. long, glabrous 2. M. speciosa. 

 Leaflets 5 or 7. . Standard, not ^ in. long, glabrous '6. M. Championi. 



1. M. nitida, Benih. in Hook. Loud. Joum. Bot. i. 484. A tall woody 

 climber, the younger shoots covered with a close rusty tomentum, becoming 

 at length glabrous. Leaflets usually 5, shortly petiolulate, ovate or oval- 

 oblong, shortly and obtusely acuminate, 2 to 3 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous, 

 and shining, the common petiole 2 to 4 in. long. Flowers large, pui-ple, in 

 dense terminal panicles. Calyx rusty-tomentose. Standard an inch long, 

 elegantly veined and silky-tomentose outside. Keel long and incurved. Pod 

 villous, 3 to 4 in. long, and 6 to 8 lines broad at the seeds, nalTo^^ed between 

 them. — Marqiiartia tomeniosa, Vog. in PI. Meyen. 35, t. 1, 2 ? 



Very common from the level of the sea to the summit of Victoria Peak, Champion and 

 others"; also on the adjacent continent, but not known out of China. 



2. M. speciosa. Champ, in Kew Joum. Bot. iv. 73. A tall woody 

 climber, the younger branches, petioles, and panicles covered with a dense white 

 tomentum, the older branches glabrous. Leaflets 9 to 13, usually 11, oblong, 



