1897.] G. King "-Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 89 



subcuticular cuspidate densely silky bracts, ultimately thyrsoid 6 in. 

 long ; the bracts deciduous '3 in. in diam. ; pedicels *L5 in. long. Galyx 

 wide-campanulate '4 in. long, externally uniformly pubescent witb 

 brownish silky hairs ; the teeth triangular two-thirds as long as tube. 

 Corolla dark-red within, the standard externally densely glossy-brown 

 silky nearly 1 in. long. Pod turgid, 3 in. long 1*75 in. across, 1-seeded ; 

 woody, rugose, clothed with pale brown hairs ; slightly beaked. Miq. 

 Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 155; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 108. 



Perak; common, Wray ! Scortechini ! Kunstler ! Malacca; very 

 common, Griffith ! Maingay ! Berry ! Goodenough ! Singapore ; Ridley 

 6396 ! 6663 ! Pahang ; Ridley 2644 ! 



3. Millettia atropurpurea Benth. PI. Jungh. 249. An erect tree 

 30-80 feet high 3-4 feet in girth ; branches and thick branchlets grey 

 but glabrous. Leaves 15-18 in. loug, leaflets terminal and in 3-4 opposite 

 pairs petiolulate without stipels ; narrow-oblong, base rounded or rarely 

 cuneate apex obtuse or shortly cuspidate, 4-6 in. long 1*5-2 in. across, 

 rigidly coriaceous green and glabrous on both surfaces, upper surface 

 shining ; petiolules '25 in. Racemes copious in a dense terminal 

 thyrsoid hoary- tomentose panicle 6-8 in. across ; bracts small ovate 

 deciduous, '1 in. in diam. ; pedicels '2 in. long, rusty-pubescent thickening 

 in fruit. Calyx '25 in., campanulate, teeth small the two upper truncate 

 the others acute, thinly silky externally. Corolla dark-purple, standard 

 1 in. long ovate-obtuse, glabrous externally. Vexillary stamen free ; 

 ovary pubescent. Pod turgid, 3 in. long 2 in. across, 1-2 seeded ; woody 

 subrugose quite glabrous ; slightly beaked. Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 157 ; 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind, II, 108. Pongamia atropurpurea Wall. Cat. 

 5910 ; PI. As. Bar. I, t. 78. 



Perak; Scortechini 193! 273! Kunstler 8012 ! Penang ; Wallich 59101 

 Malacca ; common. Singapore ; Hullett 60 ! Distrib. Tenasserim ; 

 Sumatra. 



4. Millettia glaucescens Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLII, 

 2. 67. A large tree with glabrous branches the smaller ones slightly 

 angled. Leaves 8-9 in. long; rachis glabrous; leaflets terminal and 

 in 4-5 opposite petiolulate pairs ; lowest pair broadly ovate the 

 rest obovate- oblong all acuminate, 3*5-5 in. long 1'25-1'75 wide; 

 membranous, bright green above glaucescent beneath, glabrous from an 

 early stage on both surfaces ; petiolules '2 in. Racemes axillary slender 

 6 in. long, at first puberulous as are the capillary solitary, paired, or 

 fascicled pedicels, '2 in. long. Calyx wide shallow-tubular, slightly 

 pubescent, obscurely toothed, '15 in. deep* Corolla "4 in. long, standard 

 orbicular glabrous externally, 2-callose at base, steel-blue (fide Kurz) ; 

 wings clawed. Vexillary filament cohering half way up staminal 



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