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138 XXXI. LEGUMINOS.E. [Sesbani 



armed, 6-9 in. long; leaflets opposite, on short petiolules, 10-30 pairs, 

 oblong, obtuse, and often mucronate, glaucous, 1-1 J in. long. Eacemes 

 short, with 2-4 very large flowers, 3 in. long, red or white. Calyx 

 campanulate, from a turbinate base, with short, unequal teeth. Standard 

 ovate, rather shorter than the keel. Pod upwards of a foot long, -g- in. 

 broad, compressed, tetragonous. 



Cultivated in Southern and Eastern India, and in the Ganges Doab. In- 

 digenous in the Indian Archipelago and in North Australia. Wood white, only 

 fit for fuel. The tender leaves, pods, and flowers are eaten as a vegetable, and 

 in Bengal the tree is grown as a support for the Betel plant. 



7. MILLETTIA, W. & A. 



Climbing shrubs, with imparipinnate leaves ; leaflets prominently penni- 

 veined. Flowers white, rose, or purple, racemose or panicled. Calyx trun- 

 cate or shortly toothed, 2 upper teeth sometimes connate. Standard 

 large-spreading or reflexed, shortly clawed, with or without basal calli or 

 auricles ; wings oblong, falcate ; keel-petals incurved, obtuse. Yexillary 

 stamen free at base, connate with the rest at the middle or wholly free ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary multiovulate ; stigma small, terminal. Pod from 

 linear to oblong, flat or thick, coriaceous or woody, indehiscent or tardily 

 dehiscent. 



1. M. auriculata, Baker MSS. Syn. Robinia macrophylla, Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 329 ; Pongamia macrophylla, Graham ; Otosema macrqpJiylla, 

 Bentham. Vern. Maudh, Oudh ; Gonjha, Kamaon. 



A large pubescent climber, young leaves with soft silky hairs. Leaflets 

 7-9, 2-6 in. long, oblong, obovate-oblong or obovate, shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate; naked part of common petiole below the lowest pair of 

 leaflets equal to half its entire length. Stipules falcate, silky-tomentose, 

 |- in. long. Flowers white, in slender axillary racemes, about half the 

 length of leaves. Standard auriculate above the claw. Pods rusty-tomen- 

 tose, flat, linear, hard-coriaceous, 4-6 in. long, J in. broad. 



Sub-Himalayan tract, Sutlej to Bhutan, ascending to 3500 ft. Oudh forests. 

 Behar. Satpura range. Fl. April- June. 



To the tribe of Galegew belongs also TepJirosia Candida, DC. ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 210. Syn. Robinia Candida, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 327. Vern. Lehtia, 

 Kamaon. A large shrub ; leaflets 10 pair, lanceolate, 1^-2^ in. long, clothed 

 with soft pubescence. Flowers white, 1 in. long, in terminal racemes. Pods 

 linear, 3-4 in. long, J in. broad, clothed with soft, tawny tomentum. Burma, 

 Bengal, sub-Himalayan tract to Sutlej. Fl. OS. The leaves are employed to 

 poison fish. 



8. ABRUS, Linn. 



Climbing shrubs, with abruptly pinnate leaves. Calyx truncate, or 

 with short teeth. Standard ovate, narrowed into a broad short claw, 

 more or less adherent to the staminal tube ; wings narrowly falcate, ob- 

 long ; keel longer and broader than wings, arcuate. Stamens 9, connate 

 in a sheath slit above, the tenth absent ; anthers uniform. Ovary sub- 

 sessile, multiovulate; style short, incurved, beardless; stigma capitate. 

 Pod flat, 2-valved, divided by transverse membranes between the seeds. 





