. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Millettia] XLV. LEGUMINOSiE 221 oblong, shortly acuminatej stipels minute, secondary nerves 8-10 pair, pro- minent beneath. Racemes 4-9 in. long, rusty tomen- tose, axillary, several at the ends of short stout branchlets, fl. whitish. Pod flat, woody, rusty- tomentose, 4-6 in. long, I in. broad, sutures thick- ened. Subhimalayan tract, from the Sutlej eastward, Behar, Central India south to the Godavery. Common in Sal forests. Fl. April-June. A
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Millettia] XLV. LEGUMINOSiE 221 oblong, shortly acuminatej stipels minute, secondary nerves 8-10 pair, pro- minent beneath. Racemes 4-9 in. long, rusty tomen- tose, axillary, several at the ends of short stout branchlets, fl. whitish. Pod flat, woody, rusty- tomentose, 4-6 in. long, I in. broad, sutures thick- ened. Subhimalayan tract, from the Sutlej eastward, Behar, Central India south to the Godavery. Common in Sal forests. Fl. April-June. A remarkable local variety, formerly regarded as a species, is M. extensa, Benth., Knrz, F. Fl. i. 352. Yern. Damange, Burm., common in the deciduous forests of Upper and Lower Burma. Tonliin, fl. reddish-lilac, in shorter racemes, pods gla- brous when ripe. 13. ,Benth.; Kurz, F. M. 353. Glabrous except inflor- escence, leaflets 1-3 pair, thin, membranous, 3-9 in. long, elliptic or elliptic- obovate, acuminate, per- fectly glabrous beneath, secondary nerves 6-8 pair, prominent oh the under- side, with a conspicuous network of raised reticulate veins. Fl. white (tip of keel and wings purple), in terminal panicles, mostly single, not fasciculate, calyx tomentose, supported by 2 setaceous bracteoles, three teeth triangular, the two upper minute connate, corolla densely silky outside. Pod thick, turgid, flat between seeds, tawny-velvety, 2-4 by 1 in., seeds 1-5. Sikkim, ascending to 4,000 ft. Dwars. Assam to Chittagong and Burma. Fl. April. Nearly allied: 14. M. Dorwardi, Coll. and Hemsl. in Linn. Soc. Journ. xxviii. 40, described as a tree in one, as a climber in another place, Shan hills, Upper Burma^ leaflets 2 pair, 2-3 in. long, fl. in dense terminal panicles. 15. M. pachycarpa, Benth.; Kurz, F. Fl. i. 353. Yern. Kharina^ Khasi hills. A large spreading and scandent shrub, young parts and inflorescence rusty- brown tomentose, leaflets 5-6 pair, 3-7 in. long, pubes
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