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Bractcolcs none or at a distance from the calyx, and 

 usually very small. Stipules none or minute. 

 Calyx-teeth or lobes equal. Pod flat, usually oblong . I7. Latrobka. 

 Calyx more or less 2-lipped, or the upper lobes broad. 

 Pod ovate, flat or turgid. 



leaves all opposite . ; 18, Eutaxia. 



Leaves alternate or crowded. Standard usually very 

 broad 



19. DlIXAVYNIA. 



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(73 Barhji^a, has simple, or rather l-foliolate, leaves, and the stamens free: but it is 

 arge tree, with small nearly reirular flowers.^ 



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Tribe IL Gemsteae.— aS/^^-w^j or kerbs, verf/ rarely small trees. Leaves simple or 

 with I or 6 or more digitate leajlets {except Goodia). Stameyis all united in a sheath open 

 on the tipper side m all the Australian genera {except in one species of Ilovca). 



Leaves all simple or none. Flowers axillary, solitary or clustered. 

 Seeds strophiolate. 

 Anthers uniform. Pod very flat. 



Upper suture of the pod bordered by a narrow wing and not 

 splitting, the valves rolling back upon it elasticallv. Leaves 



^Pl'^si^ ••'... . 20. Plati-lobium; 



1 od not winged, opening at both sutures. Leaves opposite or 



alternate 21. Bosslea. 



Anthers alternately longer and shorter. Leaves alternate or none. 

 Pod at least twice as long as broad, with coriaceous convex 



valves.^ Flowers red, yellow, or reddish-purple .... 22. Templetoxia. 

 Pod turgid, scarcely longer than broad. Flowers blue or 



bluish-purple 23. IIovea. 



Leaves pmnately S-foliolate. Flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed 



racemes. Seeds strophiolate 24. Goodia. 



Leaves digitate or simple. Flowers or racemes terminal or leaf- 

 opposed. Seeds not strophiolate. 

 Anthers alternately longer and shorter. Style (often very 

 minutely) bearded under the stigma. 



Keel acute or beaked. Pod turgid 25. CrotalAria. 



Keel obtuse. Pod Hat 26. Pentadvnamis. 



Anthers uniform. Style beardless. Pod lincaj*, foUicidar. 



Flowers minute, solitary or in short racemes 27. Eothia. 



rfi?' ■^^y^\^^^GJ^^(f, has the flowers of Genistece, but the ])iunatc leaves of Galegea,) 

 1 fl -^^^ii^^^^giay and a very few species of other genera of Phaseolea, have 3 digitate 

 eaflets, but may readily be distinguished from Genistetc, either by their upper stamen free 

 "^'" ^y *.^? t^^'iuiug herbaceous stems. Some species o^ 2Q, Psoralea, and Z\, Indigofera^ 

 with digitate leaves, may be known, the former by their ovary and pod, the latter by the 

 stamens and anthers.) 



Uich IIL Trifoliese. — Jlerbs^ very rarely sJtruls, Leaflets nsually 3, pinnate or 

 ^^^ y digitate^ the veinlets eo-tending to the edge and often produced into minute teeth, 

 e uncles racemes or Jlower-heads axillary for apparently terminal by the reduction of 

 le upper floral leaves)^ never leaf-opposed. Upper stamen free {except Ononis), the 

 others united in a sheath. Pod not articulate. 



Kf^cl beaked. Stamens all united *Onoxis. 



^eel obtuse. Upper stamen free. 



Petals free from the staminal tube. 

 • *^^ straight, or falcate, or undulate, liucar, or flat, or braked 28. TiUGOM:T,r.A. 

 Pod spiral (rarely small, curved and 1-seeded) *Mkdicago. 



All K ^^^^^^' ^^^*^^'* straight, and iudcliisccut * JIehlotus. 



\v \ P^^^^*' ^^ ^-'^G 4 lower ones, with their claws adiiate to 

 the base of the staminal tube. Pod usually included iu the 



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