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XLIII. LEGUMINOSiE. 
[Tephrosia. 
teeth or lobes about as long. Standard about 3 lines diameter, the claw short. 
Style much flattened. Pod narrow, densely silky pubescent, much curved, the 
sutures scarcely thickened, the valves very convex. Seeds transversely oblong. 
Hab.: Gulf country. 
Var. (?) angustifolia. Leaflets linear, elongated. Pod softly villous. — Cooper’s Creek, Dr. T. 
L. Bancroft. 
34. MILLETTIA, W. and Arn. 
(After Dr. Millet.) 
Calyx broad, truncate or with short teeth or lobes, the 2 upper ones often 
united. Standard broad, usually reflexed; keel incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen 
free or cohering with the others in the middle ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile 
or rarely stipitate, surrounded at the base by an angular or cup-shaped disk, with 
several ovules ; style inflexed, terete, glabrous, with a small terminal stigma. 
Poci broadly linear-lanceolate or oblong, flat and hard, or if convex thick and 
woody, opening at length in two valves. Seeds orbicular or reniform, not 
strophiolate. — Trees, tall shrubs, or woody climbers. Leaves unequally pinnate ; 
leaflets penniveined with reticulate veinlets, usually stipellate. Stipules small. 
Racemes terminal or paniculate at the ends of the branches. Flowers usually 
purple, pink or white, clustered or scattered along the rhachis. Bracts and 
bracteoles usually very deciduous. 
A large genus, ranging over the warmer regions of Asia and Africa, with 3 endemic Australian 
species. Benthamsays: It differs from the North American and Japanese genus Wistaria, only 
in the hard, usually flat or thick pod, not opening so readily, although not absolutely indehiscent 
as in the Dalbergiea. 
Plant hoary-pubescent. Pods dehiscent, large, the outside densely velvety 
and ribbed ; integument of seed very loose 1. M. megasperma. 
Plants silky-pubescent. Pod tardily dehiscent, hard, woody, nearly glabrous ; 
integument of seed closely adherent 2. M. Maideniana. 
Plant glabrous or nearly so. Flowers on very hairy pedicels. Bracts and 
bracteoles prominent 3. M. pilipes. 
1. M. megasperma (large-seeded), F. v. M. (under Wistaria) ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. ii. 211. A tall evergreen woody climber, glabrous except a slight hoari- 
ness on the young shoots and panicles. Leaflets 7 to 13, obovate or obovate- 
oblong, shortly acuminate, If to 2in. long, somewhat coriaceous and green on 
both sides. Racemes 4 to 6in. long, several in a terminal almost leafless panicle. 
Flowers scattered, purple. Calyx about 2f lines long, the lobes nearly as long as 
the tube, the 2 upper ones united into a very broad truncate upper lip. Standard 
above fin. broad, minutely silky-pubescent, with a slightly prominent transverse 
callous appendage inside above the claw. Upper stamen quite free. Ovary 
stipitate. Pod about Gin. long, thick, hard, almost woody, densely velvety out- 
side. Seeds red, large and thick. — Wistaria megasperma , F. v. M. Fragm. i. 10. 
Hab.: Pine River, near Moreton Bay, IF. Hill, F. v. Mueller; Nurrum-Nurrum Creek, 
Leichhardt ; not uncommon in the southern scrubs. 
The gum contains 78 per cent, of tannin. Maiden ; 75 per cent, according to Lauterer; and 
20 per cent, of water, Maiden and Lauterer. 
2. 1YE. Maideniana (after J. H. Maiden, F.L.S.), Bail. Bot. Bull. No. v. 
(1892). Branchlets striate and clothed with appressed silky hairs. Leaves about Gin. 
long, petioles slender ; leaflets 11 to 13, narrow, oblong or lanceolate, the largest 
about 2in. long, fin. broad, on petiolules under 2 lines long, which with the 
midribs and rhachis are covered with stiff appressed setaceous hairs. Stipules 
fugacious, and all fallen from the specimen examined ; stipellae minute, setaceous, 
hairy, persistent at the upper leaflets ; upper surface of leaflets dark-green, the 
under pale-coloured ; reticulation very fine and close, but scarcely visible except 
with the aid of a lens. Inflorescence in terminal panicles about 7in. long, the 
