4 XL. LEGUMINOSiE, 



Tribe IV. Eulotese. — Herbs^ rarely shrubs. Leaves pinnate, leaflets entire. Flowers 

 capitate or urnlellate on axillary peduncles. Upper stamen usually fiee, at lea^'t at the 

 lose, the others united in a sheath ; filaments either all or 5 only dilated towards the end. 

 Pod not articulate. 



Leaflets 5, the 2 lowest taking the place of stipules. Keel Leaked 29. Lotus. 



Tribe V. Galegese. — Herbs not twining, shrubs^ or rarely trees or tall woody climbers. 

 Leaves pinnate^ rarely reduced to i or \ leaflets. Stipellce noiie, or setaceous in a few 

 pinnate genera. Upper stamen usually free^ at least at the hase^ the others iinited in a 

 sheath^ very rarely all united ; filaments filiform. Ovules 2 or more {except in lutligo- 

 fera linifolia and in Psoralea). Pod 7iot articulate^ 2-'valved {excejjt Psoralea). 



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Ovule 1. Fruit small, the pericarp adhering to the seed. Herbs 

 or shrubs with black glandular dots. Leaflets (in Australia) 1 



or 3, sometimes toothed 30. Psoralea. 



Ovules 2 or more (1 in /. linifolia). Anthers tipped with a small 

 gland. Pod 2-valved. Herbs or shrubs, sometimes glandular. 

 Leaflets entire. Hairs often appressed and attached by the 

 .centre. .•........,,,.... 31. Indigofera. 



Ovules 2 or more. Anthers without glands. 



]?accraes or flowers terminal or leaf-opposed. Herbs or slirubs. 

 Stamens all united in a sheath, open on the upper side. 



Leaflets 3. Mowers in racemes. Seeds strophiolatc . * 24. Goobta, 

 Leaflets several, small. Rowers solitary, on long peduncles 32. Ptychosema. 

 Leaflets few. Petals not exceeding the deeply lobed calyx. 



Seeds strophiolatc, with a straight radicle 33. Lampuolouum. 



Upper stamen usually free, or all united in a closed tube . ■ .34. Tephrosia. 

 Racemes in a terminal panicle. Tall woody climbers. Pod 



^^^^ 35. MiLT.ETTTA. 



Racemes or flowers axillary. Herbs or shrubs. 



Styleuot bearded (rarely a small tuft of hairs on the stigma 

 in Tephrosia), 



Pod linear, rarely short and oblong ; valves thin or coria- 

 ceous, flat or convex when ripe 3J-. TEriiROSiA. 



Pod long, narrow and thick, the endocarp continuous with 



the transverse partitions between the seeds 36. Sesbania. 



Pod 1-seeded (ovules 2),muricate. Plant glandular. An- 

 thers with confluent cells opening in unequal valves • . 39, Glycyrrhiza. 

 Style bearded under the stigma. Pod turgid, membranous or 

 coriaceous." 



Petals acuminate 37. Cf-TANTiius. 



Petals obtuse ,38. Swai.\sox\a. 



(66 A&rus, and a very few pinnate-leaved Pkaseotea, may liave the teclniical characters 

 ot (jalegea, but are distinguished by their herhaeeous more or less twining stems.) 



Tribe YT. ^edysa.Tex.—Pod sepamtinff into X-seodcd arlicles, or the whole pod l- 

 seeded and indeJnscent {except Pycnospora, and rare!;, Desinodiuni). Foliage a J inflo- 

 rescence, in the Australian genera, either of Galcgea- or of I'hascolcie. 



Leaves pinnate with several leaflets, as in Galegea. Stamens 

 united in a sheath, or in 2 bundles of 5 each 



Tall shrubs Articles of the pod oblong, striate 40. Ormocarptim. 



JTrrbs. Ar ices of the pod square or semi-orbicular, flat . . 41. iEscuYNOJiKMi. • 

 Herbs. Articles of the pod folded over each other within the 



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Leaves with 2'le;flei9. * B'racJeofes lar^e, "enclosing' the flowers! *^' ^"'""*' 

 Stamens nil united. Anthers alternately long and short . . . 43. Zoiixia 



