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58. Mundulea DC. 1 — Flowers almost those of Tephrosia ; 2 superior 

 lobes or teeth of calyx subconnate. Standard usually transversely 

 callous within above claw; keel curved obtuse. Stamens 10, 2- 

 adelphous at base; vexillary stamen afterwards connate with 

 remainder into a closed tube ; 5 alternate filaments slightly dilated ; 2 

 anthers uniform. Germen oo-ovulate ; style curved hard glabrous ; 

 apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume linear piano-compressed ; 

 both sutures thickened ; indehiscent or scarcely dehiscent. Seeds 

 reniform exarillate. — Shrubs, silky-pubescent ; leaves imparipinnate ; 

 leaflets quite entire, reticulate-penniveined ; stipules minute ; flowers 3 

 racemose ; racemes terminal or springing from the wood and short ; 

 bracts small; bracelets very small or {Tropical Ana and Africa, 

 Madagascar*) . 



59. Chadsia Boj. 5 — Flowers almost those of Tephrosia ; calyx 

 posteriorly rather gibbous ; 2 superior lobes or teeth connate ; lowest 

 about equal to or longer than remainder. Corolla almost that of 

 Clianthus ; standard acuminate for a considerable length ; wings 

 acuminate, shorter than standard ; keel falcate with a long beak, acu- 

 minate, longer than standard. Stamens 10,2-adelphous at base; vexil- 

 lary stamen afterwards connate with remainder into a tube ; anthers 

 uniform. Germen co-ovulate ; style slender glabrous, apex stigina- 

 tiferous minute, scarcely or not thickened. Legume elongated acumi- 

 nate 2-valved. — Shrubs ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets with close 

 nearly parallel veins ; flowers 6 (sometimes appearing before leaves) 

 solitary or in few-flowered short racemes at nodes or on short, often 

 leafless branches ; pedicels long ; bracts small narrow {Madagascar 1 ). 



60. Milletia Wight & Arn. 8 — Eeceptacle shortly campanulate, 

 lined by a disk forming a short sheath round base of gynasceum. 



1 Mem. Legttm., vi. 266; Prodr., ii. 249 Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr., ii. 126.— Walp., Ann., 

 (Tephrosia sect. i.). — Endl., Gen., n. 6539 d. — iv. 491. 



B. EL, Gen., 497, n. 102, s In Aim. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, xx. 104 (err. 



2 Whence the stamens are almost those of Chaldia).— B. H., Gen., 497, n. 101. 

 the Fulotea. • Scarlet or pink. 



' Species 3. Wali\, Hep., v. 5 I o. 

 Pink or violet. s j> roc j r _ ; ;. 263.— Endi., Gen., n. 6715.— 



4 Species about 4. W., Spec, iii. 1121 B. H., Gen., 498, n. 104. — Berrebera Hochst., 



(Otflisus). — Roxb., Fl. Ltd., iii. 327, 328 in Flora (1846), 597.- ? Fornasinia Bebtol., 



(Robinia); Cat. Sort. Calc, 56. — Hook.. Exot. Misc. Bot., iii. IS, t. l.— Callerya Endl., <■ 



FL, t. 188 (Dalbergia) ; Icon. Plant., t. Suppl., iii. 104.— ? Marauartia Voa., in PL 



120. — Wiout, III., 79 (85). — Bakku, in Meyen., 35, t. 1, 2. 



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