6 XL. LEGUMINOS^. 



Tvviuing or erect. Flowers racemose umbellate or solitary, the 

 rhachis not nodose. Bracts usually membranous and decidu- 

 ous. Stipellec usually miuutc or none. Style beardless. Up- 

 per stamen free. 

 Ovules 4 or more. 



Pod very flat, obliquely acuminate 61. Duxbaria. 



Pod flattened, very obtuse, with transverse lines or depressions 



between the seeds G2. Atilosia- . 



Ovules 2 or rarely 1. 



Pod flattened. Ililum of the seed parallel to the suture with 



a central fuuiclc * 63. RuYNCHOSiA, 



Pod flattened. Seed obliquely transverse, the funicle attached 



to one end of the hilum. Standard usually very silky . . 64, Eri 



Pod turgid. Leaflets digitate 65. Flkmingia. 



Erect. Flowers small, in terminal racemes or panicles. Stipules 



dry, and habit oiDesmodium . 45, Pycnospoua. 



Twiners. Leaves abruptly pinnate with small leaflets. Upper sta- 

 men wanting, the other 9 united in a sheath open on the upper 

 side GG. Abuus. 



TinnE VIII. Dalber^eae. — Trees or woodi/ climbers. Leaves pimiate with 5 or more 

 leaflets or sometimes 1 leaflet^ very rarely 3, Siijpellm none or small and suhulate. Sta- 

 mens all united in a sheath or tube or into two parcels of 5, very rarely the ttpper one 

 free. Fad indehiscent. 



Anthers small, erect, didymous, opening at the top. Flowers 



small, iu cymes or short panicles. Pud flat and thin . . , . 67, Dalbeegia. 

 Anthers opening lont^Itudiually. Flowers racemose. 



Pod flat and thin, not winged 68. LoNCiioCAia>us. 



Pod flat, thin or coriaceous, one or both sutures edged with a 



narrow wing ■ G9. Dekhis. 



Pod flattened but thick, with obtuse sutures 70. Pongamia. 



(35, Millettia, is closely allied to Loncho carpus , but has a dehiscent 2-valved pod.) 



Tribe IX. Sophoreae.— K-.?^j, woody climbers, or rarely tall shruhs or almost herba- 

 ceous. Leaves pinnate, with several leaflets, without stipelli^^ or reduced to a large 

 leaflet. Stamens all free or scarcely uyiited at the base. 



Leaves pinnate. 



Corolla papilionaceous. Pod terete or 4-anglcd, moniliform . 71. Sophoua. 



Corolla papilionaceous or nearly so. Pod large, hard, almost 



woody, spongy inside ■ 72. Castanospkumum. 



Leaves 1-loliolate. Corolla small, nearly regular, the upper petal 



outside. Pod flat and thin ' .... 73. Bakklya. 



(A few species of 7, Gompholobium, and 8, Burtonia, have pinnate leaves, but with the 

 habit and small leaflets of Podalyriece.) 



SuBOKDEK II. C^s^piniese.— Flowers usually Z-merous. Corolla ir- 

 regular or nearly regular, imbricate in the hud, the upper petal inside. Sta- 

 mens (in the Australian genera) \^ or fewer and all free. Radicle usually 

 straight. 



Leaves twice pinnate, often with hool^ed prickles. Stamens 10 all 

 bearing anthers. 



Ovules 2 or more. Stigma small. 



Pod ovate, compressed, covered with prickles 74^ Guilandina 



Pod ovate-oblong or linear- falcate, compressed, without prickles 



or wings, 2-valved —;•••;.;■. . . 75. C^salpinia. 

 Pod flat, thin or coriaceous, the upper suture wmged , . . 7G. Mkzo.neuuum. 



