350 LEGUMINOSR. { Millettia. 
on the nerves; flowers middling-sized, yellow, on tawny pubescent 
3-4 lin. long pedicels, forming simple tawny pubescent racemes in 
long, somewhat obliquely narrowed at the base 3 corolla more than 
in. long, the petals undulate-crispate ; stamens united in 
HaB.—Frequent in the Eng and upper mixed forests of Martaban and Tenas- 
serim, very rare in the dry forests of Prome District.—Fl. Apr -May; Fr. R.S. 
—1l.—SS.=Metum., Lat. CaS. 
Remarxs.—Sap-wood _pale-brown, streaked, rather light, close-grained. 
Yields a red resin, a sort of gum-kino. 
MILLETTIA, WA. 
Calyx broad, truncate, or with short teeth or lobes, the 2 upper 
ones often united. Standard broad, usually reflexed ; keel incurved, 
Ovary sessile or rarely stalked, surrounded at the base with an 
angular or cup-shaped disk, several-ovuled ; style inflexed with a 
small terminal stigma. Pods flat or convex, from woody to thin 
coriaceous, finally dehiscing into 2 valves, Seeds orbicular or 
reniform, not strophiolate.—Trees or shrubs, often climbing, with 
unpaired-pinnate leaves, the leaflets usually stipellate. Stipules 
small. Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles. Bracts and bract- 
lets usually very deciduous, 
* Climbers or erect shrubs, 
X Standard auricled at the base on both sides of the claw. 
tamens monadelphous, 
© Corolla glabrous. 
Young shoots rusty-tomentose ; corolla violet-purple ; ovary quite 
glabrous weed . . : ee eS . : 
O O Corolla, at least the standard, .velvety or silky 
pubescent outside. 
; + Leaflets blunt or apiculate, rarely shortly acu- 
Foren unis nds note the yt 
wers purple, in racemes longer th @ petiole ; ripe 
M., leiogyna. 
WM. extensa- 
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