88 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. I, 



1. Millettia sericea W. & A. Prodr. 263. A large woody 

 climber 80-100 feet long, in dense forest ; in the open a low spread- 

 ing shrub 8-25 feet high ; stems 3-6 in. diam. ; branches striate shortly 

 finely pubescent. Leaves 8-12 in. long, leaflets terminal and in 3-4 

 opposite petiolulate pairs, without stipels ; obovate to elliptic-oblong, 

 entire, apex bluntly cuspidate, base rounded or cuneate, 3-5 in. long 

 1*5-3 in. wide ; coriaceous, deep-green and glabrous above glossy and 

 silvery-grey or light-brown from a minute scale-like pubescence beneath ; 

 petiolules 2 in. long. Racemes axillary nearly as long as the leaves, 

 slightly pubescent, the nodes not produced, each with the scars of 7-8 

 flowers. Flowers on pedicels 15 in. long bracteolate under the calyx. 

 Calyx wide- tubular, limb truncate *15 in. deep, dark-brown silky exter- 

 nally. Corolla "5 in. diam., standard orbicular long-clawed, whitish 

 pink or blue internally, brown-silky externally, wings clawed, purple or 

 pink with white stripes. Vexillary filament hardly cohering at base with 

 the remaining stamens. Ovary pubescent, style glabrous. Fod 3-7 in. 

 long 1 in. across, densely brown-tomentose with a rusty shining velvety 

 tomentum, turgid when ripe. Seeds 1-3, rarely 4, testa dark-brown 

 smooth ; 1 in. long, '75 in. diam. Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 153 ; Bak. 

 in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 104. Fongamia sericea Vent. Hort. Malmais. 

 sub. t. 28 ; DC. Prodr. II, 416. Fhaseolodes sericeum Kuntze Rev. I, 201. 



Var. typica ; leaflets silvery beneath ; sutures of young pods dis- 

 tinctly thickened ; seeds ]-2, rarely 3. 



Perak; common; Scortechini ! Kunstler ! Wray ! Distrtb. Sumatra 

 (Teysmann ! Forbes 3103A ! ) ; Java (Kurz !) 



A small-lpaved form of M. sericea is reported from Penang (Curtis n. 844!); 

 Lobb n. 310 in Herb. Kew, not seen by the writer, is noted by Mr. Hemsley as iden- 

 tical with it ; and the same plant is also at Kew from Singapore, as it is at Calcutta 

 from Perak {Kunstler n. 401 ! Wray n. 2364!). Bat the Perak specimens have in 

 some cases leaflets of the ordinary size on the same twig with the small leaflets ; 

 the flowers of this form are exactly like those of if. sericea and the Penang plant 

 is therefore not even separable as a variety. 



Var. malaccensis ; leaflets brownish underneath ; sutures of young 

 pods hardly thickened ; pods longer seeds 3-4. 



Malacca; Griffith 1764! Maingay 518! Goodenough 1706! 



A distinct local form but perhaps hardly a good variety. 



2. Millettia eriantha Benth. PI. Jungh. 250. A rather slender 

 woody climber 50-80 feet long with only the youngest twigs silky. 

 Leaves 8-11 in. long, rachis glabrous, leaflets terminal and in 2, rarely 

 3, opposite pairs, petiolulate without stipels; obovate-oblong or elliptic 

 shortly cuspidate 2-4 in. long, l'25-2-5 in across, rigidly coriaceous 

 pale green and glabrous on both surfaces ; petiolules "25 in. Racemes 

 copious, at first short dense 1-1 '5 in. long and strobilate with large 



