FABACEAE 669 
Faminty 19. FABACEAE — Pra FAMILY 
Herbs, shrubs, trees, or vines. Leaves alternate: blades 1-compound, 
sometimes 1- -foliolate, o or bebe! simple. Flowers mostly perfect, irregular. 
Calyx o or ual partially united sepals. Corolla of 5 (or 
of i etal in 1 Amorpha) mE distinet or nearly distinet petals compris- 
ing 2 keel-petals, 2 wings and 1 standard whieh surrounds the others. 
Androecium ps 10 monadelphous, diadelphous, or rarely distinet stamens, 
or rarely . Gynoecium l-earpellary. Ovary superior. Fruit a 
dehi us or CE legume or a loment.—A bout 325 genera and 5,000 
species, most abundant in warm and temperate regions. 
Stamens 10; filaments distinct. 
Leaflets pinna ate. Tribe I. SOPHOREAE. 
Leaflets ee : Meri or simple. Tribe II. PODALYRIEAE. 
n Kd 10 um few filaments monadelphous or dia- 
elph 
Leuf-rachis terminated by a leaflet, at least not pro- 
ed into a tendril or spin 
Fruit 2-valved or indehiscent, “put not a loment. 
pou ES S or pubescent, but not glandu- 
ar- 
Ans of 2 kinds: filame nts monadel- . 
phous: leaflets digitate: calyx 2-lipped. Tribe III. GENISTEAE. 
Anthers al alike: Pamani usually diadel- 
hous (the upper filament is some- 
securely 2. -lipped, except in Bonaveria. 
Blades m the leaflets toothed (in our l 
Speci Tribe IV. 'TRIFOLIEAE. 
x of the leaflets entir 
Fil nts, at least 5 (alternately) 
dilated a ove: aus Solitary o 
in umbel: like oe Tribe V. LOTEAE. 
dns all filifor 
D or Soon if woody 
the keel of the co- 
Ma neither coiled nor 
much = in 
r pocket in the base 
connective produced 
into a small a Haee Tribe VII. INDIGOFEREAE. 
Wing-petals without 
spu 
pocket " 
he e of the 
blade anther-con- 
Ie not 
uced 
Leaf blades pinnately i 
several-foliolate. Tribe VIII. GALEGEAE. 
Leaf-bla e 3- foliolate 
and ually with 
stipules ee capt in - 
Galactia Elliottii), Tribe X: PHASEOLEAE. Le 
Pod indehiscen t. Tribe IX. DALBERGIEAE. 
NE vin keel of the 
olla much curved or coiled. Tribe X. PHASEOLEAE. 
Foliage glandular-dotted or warty. Tribe VI. PSORALEAE. 
Fruit a loment, breaking up transversely into 
i-seeded sectio ns. Tribe XI. HEDYSAREAE, 
Leaf-rachis terminated by a tendril or by a spine or 
a bristle. Tribe XII. VICIEAE. 
I. SOPHOREAE 
Inflorescence racemose: pod moniliform. 1. SOPHORA. 
Inflorescence paniculate: pod flattened. 2. CLADRASTIS, 
Pes PODALYRIEAE 
Ovary sessile or nearly so: pod 3. THERMOPSIS, 
Ovary manifestly stalked : pod nana or turgid. 4. BAPTISIA 
