Millettia.] 
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branches racemose, bearing more or less scattered purple flowers. Pedicels about 
4 lines long, hairy. Calyx silky, about 2^ lines long, deeply lobed ; standard £ 
to nearly fin. broad, much broader than long, grey, with silky hairs on the back, 
the face deep-purple and bearing a semicircular wing-like callosity just above the 
very short claw ; wing and keel petals falcate-oblong, free except near the apex. 
Upper stamen quite free, with a callous swelling about a third up from the base 
where it comes in contact with the others, the free ends of the joined ones fili- 
form, all glabrous ; anthers minute. Ovary sessile, silky-hairy. Style inflexed, 
glabrous. Pod Bin. long, almost terete and lfin. diameter, oblong, minutely 
tuberculose, chick, hard, and woody, the thin endocarp separating from the 
epicarp, with a follicular aestivation. Seeds 2, brown, hard, and polished, 
about 7 lines long and nearly as thick, irregularly angled, hilum as long as 
the seed. 
Hab.: Port Macquarie, communicated by Mr. J. H. Maiden. With the above was also a pod 
gathered at Murwillumbah, evidently belonging to the same species ; this pod, however, was Tin. 
long, tapering at each end ; nearly terete, indehiscent, slightly over lin. diameter, showing a 
slight pubescence at the contractions between the seeds. Seeds precisely like those in the short 
obtuse pod above described. The difference of the pods alone is quite sufficient to distinguish 
this species from the only other species met with in the northern parts of New South Wales and 
southern Queensland of which the fruit is known — M. megasperma, the outside of whose pods 
closely resembles corduroy ; the outer coating of the seeds also of this species cracks and peels off 
in fragments. It is probable that in a fresh or early state the pods of the new species may be 
pubescent, and that it had been rubbed off the two pods examined. I have more than once 
received loose seed of this new species from persons who had picked them up in the scrubs of 
our southern border towards the Tweed River, so have given the plant in the Queensland Flora. 
8. M. pilipes (hairy pedicels), Bail. Add. to 3rd Suppl. Syn. Ql. FI. A 
tall woody climber, glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves alternate, pinnate, 
of 2 or more pairs of pinnas ; pinnte oblong-lanceolate, about 2in. long, the 
margins undulate ; petiolules rugose, 2 or 8 lines long ; primary veins few, 
distant, and with the smaller reticulations rather prominent on both faces. 
Inflorescence in terminal racemose panicles of brownish-pink flowers, the main 
and secondary rhachises downy. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, about ^in. long. 
Pedicels slender, about fin. long, clothed with light-brown spreading hairs ; 
bracteole narrow-linear at top of pedicel. Calyx about 2^ lines long, campanu- 
late, nearly glabrous ; lobes attenuated, about as long as the cup, the two inner 
ones joined into one ; margins ciliate. Standard nearly orbicular, about ^in. 
diameter, with a callous appendage at the top of the claw ; claw short, slightly 
hairy on the back, the wing and keel petals coherent at the obtuse points, with 
sharp auricles at the base ; claws slender. Stamens diadelphous, upper one free. 
Ovary tomentose, nearly or quite sessile. Style glabrous, incurved ; stigma 
small ; disk a crenulate, glabrous, short sheath. Pod not seen. 
Hab.: Johnstone River, Dr. Thos. L. Bancroft. 
35. SESBANIA, Pers. 
(The Arabic name of one species.) 
(Agati, De. sv.) 
Calyx-tube broad, truncate, or with nearly equal teeth or lobes. Standard 
orbicular or ovate, spreading or reflexed ; keel incurved, obtuse or acuminate, the 
claws much longer than those of the other petals. Upper stamen free, geniculate 
near the base, the others united in a sheath angled near the base ; anthers 
uniform or nearly so. Ovary with several ovules ; style glabrous, with a small 
terminal stigma. Pod long and linear (or in some species not Australian oblong), 
2-valved or indehiscent, the endocarp continuous with spurious transverse parti- 
tions separating the seeds. Seeds without any strophiole. — Herbs or shrubs, 
sometimes arborescent, but of very few years’ duration. Leaves abruptly pinnate, 
