78 tEGUMiNosjT. ITephrona. 



others in the middle. Style curved, glabrous, excepting sometimes a tuft of 

 hairs on the terminal stigma. Pod linear, compressed, 2-valved, without par- 

 titions between the seeds.— Herbs, undershrubs, or rarely shrubs. J.ieaTes 

 pinnate, with several pairs of opposite leaflets, and a termmal odd one, very 

 rarely reduced to a single leaflet ; the veins of the leaflets numerous, parallel, 

 and oblique. Eacemes terminal, leaf-opposed or in the upper axils, often 

 leafy at the base. Mowers 2 to 6 together at each bract. 



A considerable genus, widely spread over the tropieal regions of the globe. 



1. T. purpurea, Pers. ; W. and Am. Prod. Fl. Penins. i. 213. Stock 

 perennial or sometimes woody, with slender but stiff decumbent ascending or 

 even erect stems, 1 to 2 feet high, with spreading branches ; the younger shoots 

 often silky-hoary, becoming at length nearly glabrous. Leaflets in several 

 rather distant pairs, cuneate-oblong or linear, about i in. long. Eacemes 

 terminal or leaf-opposed, the lower ones often veiy short, the upper ones 6 in. 

 or more, with distant fascides of 3 or 4 pinkish flowers, each about 4 Hues 

 long ; the broad standard scarcely exceeding the fine subulate calyx-teeth. 

 Pod rather more than 1 in. long, glabrous or nearly so, with 6 to 8 seeds. 



Bast Point, Champion. Common all over tropical Asia. 



5. MILLETTIA, W. and Am. 



Calyx campanulate, truncate, or with very short teeth. Standard broad^ . 

 without the inflected appendages above the daw of Wisteria and allied genera. 

 Stamens diadelphous. Ovary surrounded by a smaJl cup-shaped disk, shortly 

 stalked ; style glabrous, with a terminal stigma. Pod thick, coriaceous, or 

 almost woody, usually flattened, opening when quite ripe in two valves. — Trees 

 or more frequently taU woody climbers. Leaves pinnate, with opposite leaflets 

 and a terminal odd one, usually stipeUate. Eacemes usually simple, in the up- 

 per axils, forming a terminal panicle. Flowers 2 or more together, in fascicles 

 or on short common peduncles. 



A considerable genus, dispersed over tropical Asia and Africa. 



IJeaflets about 5. Staadard purple, 1 in. long, silky-tomentose outside. 1. M. nitida. 

 Leaflets 9 to 13. Standard white or yellowish, near 1 in. long, glabrous 2. M. speciosa. 

 Leaflets 5 or 7. Standard, not 4 in. long, glabrous 3. ^. Champxmi. 



1. M. nitida, BentJi. in Hoolc. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 484. A tall woody 

 climber, the younger shoots covered with a dose rusty tomentum, becoming 

 at length glabrous. Leaflets usually 5, shortly petiolulate, ovate or ovd- 

 oblong, shortly and obtusely acuminate, 2 to 3 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous, 

 and shining, the common petiole 2 to 4 in. long. Flowers large, purple, in 

 dense terminal panicles. Calyx rusty-tomentose. Standard an inch long, 

 elegantly veined and silky-tomentose outside. Keel long and incui-ved. Pod 

 villous, 3 to 4 in. long, and 6 to 8 lines broad at the seeds, naiTowed between 

 them. — Marquartia tomeniosa, Vog. in PI. Meyen. 35, t. 1, 2 ? 



Very common from the level of the sea to the summit of 'Vicforia Peak, Champion and 

 others ; also on the adjacent continent, but not known out of China. 



2. M. speciosa. Champ, in Km Journ. Bot. iv. 73. A taU woody 

 climber, the younger branches, petioles, and panicles covered with a dense white 

 tomentum, the older branches glabrous. Leaflets 9 to 13', usually 11, oblong', 



