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Leaflets 4-9 pairs, ovate to 

 ovate-oblong, mostly obtuse. 

 ** Herbs or shrubs, with membranous leaves 

 (Glandulosae) . 

 t Flowers large, 2-4 cm. broad. 



Leaflets villous or pubescent beneath. 



Glands elongated, petiolar and also often 

 between the leaflets; midvein of leaflets 

 nearly central, the lateral veins many. 

 Glands short, sessile, petiolar only; mid- 

 vein of leaflets excentric, the lateral 

 veins few. 

 Leaflets glabrous beneath. 



Leaflets oblong to linear; gland stipitate. 

 Leaflets obovate or oblong; gland sessile 

 or stout-stipitate. 

 tt Flowers small, seldom over i cm. broad. 



t Petiolar glands sessile, or very short- 

 stalked. 

 Prostrate; leaflets 4-6 pairs. 

 Erect or ascending; leaflets 8 pairs or more. 

 Plant densely hirsute all over. 

 Plants glabrate or more or less villous. 

 Pod black-banded and black-mar- 

 gined. 

 Pod not black-banded. 



Leaflets 10-15 mm. long, the 



midvein little excentric. 

 Leaflets 5-8 mm. long, the mid- 

 vein very excentric. 

 Petals 6 mm. long; plant 

 sparingly short-pubescent. 

 Petals 3 mm. long; plant 

 villous. 

 Xt Petiolar glands distinctly stalked. 



Pod 3.5-4 mm. broad; pubescence widely 



spreading. 

 Pod 3 mm. broad or less. 



Petiolar glands often 2 ; leaflets oblong; 

 plant glabrous, or pubescent only 

 above. 

 Petiolar gland i; leaflets linear or 

 linear-oblong; plant pubescent or 

 villous. 



2. Midvein of the leaflet approximate to its upper 

 margin (Strigillosae). 

 Petiolar gland small, subsessile. 



Leaves sparingly pubescent. 30 



Leaves densely pilose. • 31 



16. C. lucayana. 



17. C glandulosa. 



C. Dussii. 

 C. Swartzii. 

 C. polyadena. 



C. pygmaea. 

 C. paUllaria. 



23. C.fasciata. 



24. C. aeschinomene. 



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C. savannarum. 

 C. micrantha. 



27. C. riparia. 



28. C. mirabilis. 



29. C. Chamaecrista, 



C. slrigillosa. 

 C. adenosperma. 



