MUlettia.] l. leguminoSjE. (J. G. Baker.) 107 



JForests of Sikkim, Khasia, SIdlhet, Assam, Chittaoono, and Biema, ascending to 

 4000 ft.— DisTBiB. China ? 



A -woody climber, with young branchlets and leaves below with a little opaque 

 grey deciduous pubescence. Leaflets large, reaching i-1 ft. long, thin and flexible ; 

 both sides green ; petiolules and setaceous stipellae ^-f in. Sacemes most or all in a 

 panicle above the leaves ; flowers distinctly pedicellate, not fascicled, subtended by a 

 pair of setaceous bracteoles. Cah/x J in., densely silky, distinctly toothed. Corolla 

 ■^ in., densely coated with grey silk. Pod very turgid, 4-5 in. long, 1 in. broad, 

 3-5-seeded, sublignose. 



13. ns. ovalifolia, Kurz in Joum. Asiat. Soe. Beng. xlii. 2, 68, excl. syn. 

 W. !!^ A.; leaflets 7 ovate-elliptie shortly acuminate chartaceous glabrous, 

 standard glabrous on the back, pod small linear-oblong glabrous flattish ■with 

 obtuse sutures. 



Biema, at Prome, Kwz. 



An erect glabrous middle-sized tree. Leaves ^1^ ft. ; leaflets ^1 in. long, glau- 

 ceseent and ^nely reticulated beneath ; petiolules slender, ^ to ^ in. Racemes slender, 

 glabrous, 2-3 inches, one or several together, arising from young branchlets ; pedi- 

 cels capillary, solitary or fascicled. Calyx glabrous, piu:plish, broader than long, ^^ in., 

 long, nearly truncate. Corolla hlue ; standard ^ in. long. Pot? 2-3 in. long, 2-3-seeded 

 at middle, sublignose, pale, incurved, narrowed to base, sparsely verrucose. — Kurz 

 lac. cit. 



14. 'Sit. caerulea, Baker ; leaflets 7 obovate-oblong cuspidate subcoria- 

 ceous stipeUate glabrous, standard densely silky, stamens monadelphous, pod 

 large flat rather woody finely brown-velvety. Pongamia caerulea, Orah. in Wall. 

 Cat. 6894. 



AvA, at PhanoB, Wallich ; Malacca, Maingay. 



A woody climber, with glabrous branches. Leaflets 4-6 in. long, glabrous on both 

 sides from an early stage; petiolules |— ^ in. Flowers in close short-pedunded racemes 

 in the axils of the leaves ; pedicels very short, densely fascicled. Calyx campanulate, 

 ^' long, faintly silky, nearly truncate. Corolla, three times the calyx, the standard 

 densely white-canescent on the back. Fod linear-oblong, 7-8 in. long, l|— If in. broad, 

 recurved, late in dehiscing, clothed with dense short persistent brown velvety pubes- 

 cence. 



15. Its. gplaucescens, Kurz in Jown. Asiat. Soe. Beng. xlii. 2, 67 ; 

 leaflets obovate-oblong cuspidate membranous exstipellate glabrous beneath, 

 standard glabrous on the back, stamens monadelphous, pod flat on the face 

 woody linear-oblong glabrous not torulose with both sutures expanded into 

 narrow wings. 



BiEMA ; forests of Pegu and Martaban, Kurz. 



A woody climber, with glabrous branchlets. Leaflets thin, flexible, green above, 

 dull below, reaching i ft. ; petiolules \ in. Eacemes close, simple, ^ ft. long, axillary on 

 short peduncles ; pedicels in pairs, exceeding the calyx. Calyx ^ in., with a few 

 minute hairs ; teeth deltoid. Corolla f in., steel-blue. Pod 3-4-seeded, tubercled, | ft. 

 by 1 in. 



16. M. Fiscidia,. Wight Ic. t. 86 ; leaflets 5-7 obovate-oblong cuspidate 

 rigidly coriaceous exstipellate glabrous, standard glabrous on the back, stamens 

 diadelphous, pod thin compressed oblong glabroiis. Galedupa Piscidia, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 241. 



Forests of Sikkim, Kha'sia, Sllhet, and Mishmi, ascending to 4000 ft. 



A woody climber, with whitish branchlets, only the youngest branchlets and leaves 



