3720.000 Millettia Wight & Arn.

Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent. Stipules present. Leaves imparipinnate. Leaflets opposite, with stipels. Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles, white, pink, mauve or violet. Calyx campanulate, ± 2-lipped or truncate. Petals with conspicuous standard with oblong claw. Pod flattened, coriaceous, 2-valved but often tardily dehiscent.

Derivation of name: after Charles Millett, 1792-1873, a plant collector for the East India Company in China. [Corrected from a previous version of the site, which gave Dr J A Millett as the source of the name].

Worldwide: c. 90 species in the Old World tropics

Zimbabwe: 3 taxa.