Muellera
(named after Otto Frederick Muller, 1730-1784, a Danish botanist, and one of the editors of the "Flora Danica"). SYN. Coublandia. ORD. Leguminosae. A genus comprising a couple of species of trees, the one inhabiting tropical South America, and the other (not much known) the hotter parts of Mexico. Flowers violet or whitish, in axillary or lateral racemes; calyx truncate, very shortly or obsoletely toothed; standard broad, ovate or sub-orbiculate, exauriculate. Leaves alternate, impari-pinnate; leaflets opposite, exstipellate. M. moniliformis, the species introduced to cultivation, is a tall, evergreen, woody, stove climber, differing from Lonchocarpus in the pod, which is thick, and of a dry, fleshy consistence. For culture, see Lonchocarpus.
M. moniliformis (necklace-podded). fl. whitish, disposed in simple, axillary racemes. l. impari-pinnate, with two pairs of ovate, acute, glabrous, petiolulate leaflets. Tropical America, 1782.