406 BENGAL PLANTS. (Tephrosia, 
549. shape PUMILA Pers. 7. purpwrea var. pumila F. B. I. 
i. 118. Galega diffusa F. I. iii. 387. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur: in fields. 
A diffuse perennial weed. 
252. Millettia W. & A. 
Large climbing shrubs or occasionally trees ; leaves odd-pinnate, 
alternate; stipules usually small; leaflets opposite; stipels small, 
subulate, sometimes 0. Flowers fascicled, rarely scattered, on the 
rachis of axillary or terminal simple racemes or panicles; bracts 
small, caducous; bracteoles caducous. Se epals 5, connate in & 
campanulate tube ; teeth usually short or nearly obsolete. Petals 
much exserted; standard obovate or eens spreading or re- 
flexed, with or without a callosity at the top of the claw, and 
Ovary sessile or rarely stipitate, base usually enclosed in at 
annular disk or sheath, many-ovuled ; style inflexed, beardless, 
compressed or thickened, coriaceous or woody pod, usually very 
tardily dehiscent. Seeds orbicular or reniform ; hilum small. 
Standard not auricled at the base ; stamens diadelphous ; pods tore: 
lose :-— 
Leaflets 13-15, obscurely silky reigeoe — large; standard 
glabrous on the back; pod co riaceous, glabrous ......++++++eee+ racemosa. 
Leaflets ge Sagan aaa i pitas standard yee e 
the back ; velve 
woeereceere® 
Standard anvicléd at me ‘abi Pe meng eet siats* aaiten ie 
Leaflets 7-9 ; fowers shortly pedicelled ; pod silky.. ,auriet 
Leaflets 9-11; flowers subsessile ; pod glabrescent ....-.--+--/7ue ticosa. 
550. MILLETTIA RACEMOsA Benth.; F. B. I. ii. 105. M.leiogym 
F. B. I. ii. 109. Robinia racemosa F. I. iii. 829. 
Behar, Rajmahal Hills; Orissa, Khurda. 
A large woody climber. 
MILLETTIA CINEREA Benth.; F. B. I. ii. 106. 
Chittagong. 
A large woody climber. 
551. 
