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gular, its petals free or united in a tube, valvate in estivation. Stamens 
definite or indefinite. 
Suborder 1. Papilionaceze. 
Tribe 1. Popanyrirm. Stamens free. Legume 2-valve, continuous’ 
Shrubs, with simple or palmate-compound leaves. 
Legume compressed; leaves sessile, 3-foliolate ; 
flowers yellow... . 1. Cycnopta. 
Legume turgid, woolly ; leaves petioled, simple 
flowerspurple . .... . : ‘.« 2s, PODAEYRTAS 
Tribe 2. Lipartem. Stamens diadelphous (except in Celidiwm and 
Walpersia). Legume 2-valve, continuous. Ovary 1- or several-ovuled. 
—Shrubs, with simple, exstipulate leaves. 
Stamens diadelphous. 
Flowers yellow. 
Lowest calyx-segment very large, petaloid . . 3. Liparta. 
Lowest calyx-segment not longer than the rest. 
Corolla conspicuous. Ovary several-ovuled. 4, PRIESTLEYA. 
Corolla inconspicuous. Ovary l-ovuled. . 6. LATHRIOGYNE. 
Flowers purple or purplish, the keel darker . . 5. AMPHITHALEA. 
Stamens united at base into a short tube, or nearly 
free. 
Flowers purplish; leaves sessile, with inflexed 
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Flowers yellow ; leaves petioled, with reflexed 
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Tribe 3. GrenistEm. Stamens completely monadelphous. Ovary 2- or 
several-ovuled.—Shrubs half-shrubs or herbs, with simple or palmately com- 
pounded leaves. 
Leaves simple, without stipules. 
Legume compressed. 
Calyx equally 5-fid, lobes pcg Vexil 
villous. . . 9. BorBonta. 
Calyx with the lowest segment rery narrow. 
Standard glabrous . . . . . . oe 1s LOS RASNAS 
Legume turgid. 
Keel subtruncate, shorter than the ale . . . 11. EUcHLORA. 
Keel sharply rostrate . . . » 12. CroranaRtia. 
Leaves palmately 3-5-7- foliolate (in some ‘Lebeckia 
and in Lotononis monophylla, 1-foliolate, hence 
apparently simple). 
Legume very turgid. Keel shores beaked ; 
flowersracemose . - » . 12. CROTALARIA. 
Legume not turgid (or but slightly 80). 
Lateral calyx segments connate in pairs; front 
segment separate and narrower. 
Standard erect, straight, concave ; keel and 
short style straight 5 13. PLEIOSPORA. 
Standard refiexed; keel inflexed, long style 
sharply-bent. ; 
Legume straight or faleate . 14. Lorononis. 
Legume repeatedly folded and twisted 
from side to side . . . sty wp? Temas 
