FABACEAE. 



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1 G. Crista (L.) Small. Straggling or spreading shrub: leaflets numerous; 

 blades ovate, oblong-ovate, or nearly oblong, 1.5-3.5 cm. long mucronate: 

 racemes or panicles 1-4 dm. long: sepals 9-11 mm. long, mostly obtuse: petals 

 dull-yellow, the narrower ones 10-13 mm. long, truncate and 3-toothed at the 

 apex: pods oval or oval-oblong, 5-7 cm. long.— Coastal sand-dunes and shore 

 hammocks.— F. K. (Ber., Bah., Cuha, ^nf.)- Gray-nicker. 



2 G Bonduc L. Plants similar to G. Crista in habit, but leaflets relatively 

 larger: sepals mostly acute: narrower petals rounded and merely uneven at 

 the apex. — Coastal sand-dunes and shore hammocks.— F. K. (Bah., Cuba, 

 Ant.) — Yellow-nicker. 



5. TAMARINDUS [Tourn.] L. Unarmed trees. Leaves relatively small: 

 leaflets numerous. Sepals 4. Petals 3, often with 2 additional rudiments. 

 Stamens 3, the filaments united to about the middle, alternating with 3 minute 

 staminodia. Ovary elongate: pod indehiscent, succulent within. 

 1. T. indica L. Tree with spreading branches: leaflets 18-36, 1-2 cm. long, 

 the iolades oblong to linear-oblong, becoming reticulate: sepals 10-12 mm. 

 long: petals yellowish or reddish, 13-16 mm. long, crisped: pod thick, b-liJ 

 cm. long, more or less curved, the edges rounded.— Hammocks. Nat. of the i.. 

 Indies.— F. K. {Bah., Cuba, ^?if.)— Tamarind. 



Family 5. FABACEAE. Pea Family. 

 Herbs, shrubs, trees, or vines. Leaves altemate: blades 1-compound, 

 l-niany-foliolate, or rarely simple. Flowers mostly perfect, irregular. 

 Calyx of 5 more or less unequal partially united sepals. Corolla of 5 

 (or of 1 petal in Amorpha), unequal distinct or nearly distinct petals 

 which are 2 keel-petals, 2 wing-s, and 1 standard which surrounds the 

 others. Androecium of 10 monodelphous, diadelphous or rarely distinct 

 stamens, or rarely 9 or 5. Gynoecium 1-carpellary. Ovaiy superior. 

 Fruit a dehiscent or indehiscent legume, or a loment. 



Stamens 10 : filaments distinct. Tribh I. SOPHOREAB. 



Stamens 10 or fewer: filaments monadelphous or 

 diadelphous. 

 Leaves destitute of tendrils. 



Herbs or shrubs, or trees or woody vines with 

 1-foliolate or pinnate leaf-blades. 

 Fruit 2-valved or indehiscent, not a loment. 

 Foliage not glandular-dotted. 



Anthers of 2 kinds : filaments mona- .,,.,„„.,- . r. 



delphous. Tnnu; 11. (iKMSlEAL. 



Anthers all alike : filaments diadel- 

 phous at least beyond the middle. ^.Tr^r^c^AT. 

 Poda dehiscent. TRiim III. GALEGEAE. 

 Pods indehiscent. Triiik IV. DAI,P,KKGIEAE. 

 Foliage glandular-dotted. Tbibh V. PSOKALKAK. 

 Fruit a lomlnt. Tiuuu VI. HEDVSAKEAE. 

 Herbaceous vines, or herbs with stipellate 



leaflets, or shrubs or trees with 3-folioIate titt » oi^^r^r r- to 



leaf-blades Tniiin VII. PHASEOLEAE. 



Leaves bearing tendrils. Tribh VIII. VICIEAB. 



TRir.B I. SOPHOREAE. 

 Inflorescence racemose : pods moniliform. 1. Sophora. 



Tribe II. GENISTEAE. 

 Stipules at least the upper ones decurrent : pods inflated. 2. Crotalaria. 



Tribe III. GALEGEAE. 



Leaf-blades unequally pinnate. 



Pods 4-angled or very turgid. 3. Indigofera. 



