246 LEGUMINOSJU. ^ [Millextia. 



densely silky ; teeth setaceous, lower much exceeding- the tuhe. Corolla 

 little exserted, pale red ; standard hairy outside. Fod 1-1| in. long, 

 deflexed, falcate, densely clothed with white silky hairs ; style flattened,, 

 glabrous, stigma densely penicillate. 



Jumna and Chamhal ravines in the Etawah district, Bundelkhand* 

 J DiSTEiB. Throughout India to Ceylon ; also in Trop. Africa and in 

 the Mauritius. 



32. MILLETTIA, W. & A., Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 104. 



Trees, shrubs or large woody climbers, with odd-pinnate, rarely,, 

 l-foliolate leaves ; leaflets oprosite, usually large, reticulate-veined 

 generally stipellate. Floioers showy, in axillary solitary or fascicled 

 racemes, and in terminal panicles, the flowers single or in fascicles 

 along the rachis. Calyx campanulate, teeth usually short. Corolla 

 much exserted, 'petals long-clawed ; standard broad, spreading or 

 reflexed ; wings oblong, falcate ; heel incurved, obtuse. Stamens 

 1-adelphous or 2-adelphous, filaments filiform ; anthers uniform, 

 muticous. Ovary linear, sessile or nearly >^ o, surrounded at the base 

 by an annular disk-like sheath ; ovules many ; style filiform, incurved, 

 glabrous, stigma capitate. 'Pod linear, lanceolate or oblong, usually 

 compressed, thickly coriaceous or woody, late- or hardly dehiscent, — 

 Species about 60, chiefly in Indo-China and Malaya. 



M. auriculata. Baker in F. B. I. ii, 103 ; Brand.. For. Fl. 138, WatH 

 E. D. Eobinia macrophylla, Roxh. Fl. Ind. Hi, 329. Vern. Ganj, gonj, 



A large robust woody climber with finely downy branchlets. Leaves 

 1-2 ft. long ,• petiole 4-6 in., swollen at the base ; leafiets^1-9, opposite, 

 3-8 in long, obovate, obtuse or cuspidate, membranous or subcoriaceous, 

 densely grey-silky when young, at length glabrescent above ; stipels 

 minute. Floioers in dense axillary racemes near the ends of the branches, 

 fascicled on a downy rachis ; bracts minute, linear. CoMjx f in,, densely - 

 silky, teeth very short. Corolla whitish, three times the calyx, densely 

 silky Tod. 5-7 in- long and about 1 in. broad, straight, woody, perma- 

 nently clothed with reddish-brown tomentum ; sutures thickened. 



Abundant in the forest tracts of Dehra-Dun, the Siwalik range, Eohil- 

 khand, N. Oudh, Gorakhpur and Bundelkhand. Distbib. : Outer 

 Himalaya frum the Sutlej eastward to Sikkim, ascending to 3,-500 feet, 

 also on Parasnath in Bengal and south to the Godavery. Common in 

 sal forests. Flowers April t'> June. It does considerable damage to forest 

 trees unless kept under control. The branches yield a coarse fibre, and 

 the leaves are used as fodder- 



