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creeping, sending up erect leafless flowering branches 

 to a height of 3-5 dm. (or more). 



311. Meibomia axillaris. 

 Leaflets ovate, usually about 3-6 cm. long; stems creep- 

 ing, sending up erect flowering branches which are 

 leafy below. 310. Meibomia supina. 



Characteristically vines or twining plants. 



Leaflets rather small, not usually over 2 cm. in width, varying 

 from oval or ovate to oblong or linear. 

 Standard spurred or gibbous above the base. 



Upper leaves with linear or linear-oblong leaflets, the 

 lower shorter and oblong to oval, rather obtuse, 

 rounded or emarginate. 



321. Bradbury a virginiana var. angustifolia. 

 Leaflets all essentially alike, but on dift'erent plants varying 

 from ovate to linear-oblong, obtuse to subacute. 

 Bracteoles ovate, as long as the calyx. 



322. Bradbiirya pubescens. 

 Bracteoles ovate, shorter than the caly.x. 



320. Bradburya virginiana. 

 Standard not spurred nor gibbous above the base. 

 Terminal leaflet (when 3) long-stalked. 

 Inflorescence short with 1-3 flowers. 



Calyx loosely pubescent; branches prostrate. 



328. Galaclia parvifolia. 

 Calyx densely villous; branches suberect. 



329. Galactia suberecta. 

 Inflorescence longer and with several or many flowers. 



330. Galactia striata. 

 Leaflets with stalks of about equal length.] 



331. Galactia Jenningsii. 

 Leaflets mainly over 2 cm. in width. 



Peduncles elongated, pendent, with one to several large 

 (up to IS cm. or more long) pods, which are covered with 

 brownish bristly hairs. 325. Mucuna altissima. 



Not as above. 



Valves of pod 20-30 cm. long, with a prominent ridge 

 near the upper margin. 



333. Canavalia ensiformis. 

 Pods short, 1-2-seeded, seeds scarlet and black. 



Flowers in short, rather dense, axillary racemes not 

 over 2 cm. long. 



336. Dolicholus reticulatus. 

 Flowers numerous in rather dense racemes up to 8 or 10 



cm. long 337. Dolicholus precatorius. 



Pods longer; seeds not scarlet and black; leaflets ovate- 

 oblong to ovate. 



