108 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) IMilletUa, 



finely silky. Leaflets of medium size, reaching 3-4 in. long, botli sides green, quite 

 glabrous ; petioMes short. Racemes copious, short, simple, laxly flowered ; pedicels- 

 J-f in., often geminate, neither bracteate nor bracteolate. Cah/x ^-J in., thinly 

 silky ; teeth short, obtuse. Corolla snow-white, ^ in. Pod 3-4 in. by 1-1^ in., nar- 

 rowed to a point ; valves quite smooth, dehiscing earlier than in the other species. 



17. INC. 'Brandisiana, Kurz in Joum. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2, 69 j 

 leaflets 13 or more lanceolate glabrous subooriaceoiis stipellate, standard silky 

 on the back, stamens diadelphous, pod thin compressed ligulate-oblong glabrous. 



BntMA, near Yomah, Knrz. 



An erect tree, with slender terete glabrous branches. Leaflets 1-1 J in. long, narrowed 

 to an obtuse tip, rather rounded at the base. Bacemes very lax, panieled at the end of the 

 branches and sending out small shoots from the lower nodes ; pedicels much shorter 

 than the calyx ; bracts minute, glabrous, lanceolate. Calyx ^ in. glabrous, broadly 

 campanulate ; teeth deltoid. Corolla lilac, |-f in. Fod 3-4 in. long, under an inch 

 broad, 2-4-seeded, the valves quite smooth and flat, twisting when dried. 



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18. nx. eriantba, Benth. PI. Jung. 250 ; leaflets 6 obovate-oblong ctis- 

 pidate rigidly coriaceous exstipeUate glabrous, standard densely silky, stamens 

 diadelphous, pod oblong lignose rugose glabrescent. 



Forests of Malacca, Gtiffitk, Maingay. 



A woody climber, with only the youngest branches silky. Leaflets reaching 5-6 in. long,, 

 very rigid in texture, both sides green and quite glabrous ; petiolules J-f in. Bacemes 

 copious, short, subsessile, dense, subspicate ; bracts large, roundish, densely silky, clasp- 

 ing and hiding the buds. Calyx subsessile, fin., clothed with bright yellowish -brown 

 silky pubescence, like the bracts and standard; teeth as long as the tube, broad, imbri- 

 cated. Corolla |-1 in., densely silky. Fod beaked, turgid, 3 in. long, 1-seeded, sub- 

 iudehiscent. 



19. m. atropurpurea, Benth. PI. Jung. 249 ; leaflets 7-9 oblong acute- 

 rigidly coriaceous exstipeUate glabrous, standard glabrous, stamens diadelphous,, 

 pod oblong convex smooth rather woody glabrous. Pongamia atropurpiu:ea, 

 Wall. Cat. 5910 ; PI. As. Par. t. 78. 



Forests of Maetaban, Tenasseeijt, Malacca, and Penahg. — Distbib. Su- 

 matra. 



An erect tree, with thick, glabrous branches. Leaflets 4-6 in. long, very thick and 

 rigid, shining above, both sides quite glabrous, reticulato-venose ; petiolules J-^ in. In- 

 florescence a dense terminal panicle above the leaves ; racemes not branched ; bracts 

 minute, ovate; pedicels |-i in. Calyx \ in., thinly silky; teeth short obscure. 

 Corolla dark purple, 1 in. long. Fod narrowed to both ends, 3 in. long, subindehis- 

 cent, 1-seeded in our specimens. 



Sttbgen. 2. Otosema, Benth. Standard amcled at 'the base on both 

 sides of the claw. Stamens monadelphoiis. 



20. M. auriculata, Baker ; branehlets finely downy, leaflets 7-9 obovate 

 obtuse or cuspidate membranous thinly silky, flowers shortly pedicellate, pod 

 woody permanently sericeous. Brand. For. Flor. 138. Eobinia macrophylla, 

 Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 329. Pongamia macrophylla, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5892. 

 Otosema macrophylla, Benth. PI. Jung. 249. Amerimnum pallidum, Samilt. 

 MSS. 



EoHiLCUND and Kdmaon to Sikkim, reaching 3500 ft.; also on Parasnath. 

 in Eehab. 



