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: Named for Dr J A Millett, a botanist who worked in China in 1726

Worldwide: c. 90 species in the Old World tropics

Zimbabwe: 5 cultivated taxa.