Millettia
(named after J. A. Millet, a French botanist of the eighteenth century). SYN. Benebera. ORD. Leguminosae. A genus comprising about forty species of sometimes tall, climbing trees or shrubs, of which one inhabits Australia, and the rest the warmer parts of Asia or Africa. Flowers purple, pink, or whitish; racemes terminal, or at the apices of the branches, paniculate; standard ample, spreading or reflexed. Leaves impari-pinnate; leaflets often evergreen, penniveined and reticulate veined, and, for the most part, stipulate. The species described below is probably the only one yet introduced. For culture, see Dolichos.
M. megasperma (large-seeded).* fl. purple, in loose panicled racemes. l. pinnate, glabrous, glossy, dark green. Queensland, &c. A handsome, evergreen, woody climber, with the habit of Wistaria sinensis. (B. M. 6541.)