68 XLII. LEGUMINOS#. 
Flowers purple pink or white. 
Small shrubs undershrubs or herbs. ee 
coriaceous, compressed, linear . . . 82. TEPHROSIA. 
Trees. Legume hard woody with thick mar- 
gins, elliptic or pi Beek few-seeded, 
slowly opening . 83. MILLErTIA. 
Flowers yellow. Tegumne very. long, slender, 
nodose. . . . 34, SESBANIA. 
Legume membranous, " pellucid, compressed or 
bladdery. 
Leaves pinnate. Flowers racemose. 
Standard shorter than the acute keel. . . . 35. SUTHERLANDIA. 
Standard longer than the obtuse keel. . . . 36. LESSERTIA. 
Leaves simple. Flowers axillary, minute. . . 37. SYLITRA. 
Tribe 8. ASTRAGALE®. Stamens diadelphous. Legume completely or 
incompletely longitudinally 2-celled, by the introflection of one of the 
sutures.—Stem not twining. Leaves pinnate. 
Legume with its lower (carina/) suture introflexed . 38. ASTRAGALUS. 
Tribe 9. HepysaREx. Legume more or less completely jointed, usually 
separating at maturity into indehiscent, 1-seeded fragments, sometimes re- 
duced to a single joint.— Leaves variously compound or simple. 
’ Leaflets 2—4, from the gh of a common petiole 
(pellucid- -dotted) San & 5 «2 2 39-2ZOnNEAS 
Leaves pinnate ; leaflets in 2 or many pairs. 
Stamens 10, in two 5-androus sets. Legume 
jointed. . eo ete 2 0.) 6. 40. ARSCHYNOMENE: 
Stamens monadelphous. " Pod subterraneous, in- 
dehiscent. . ole te place le. se SAAN eae 
Leaves pinnately 3- foliolate. 
Calyx tube very long; corolla inserted in its 
throat . . 4 
Calyx short, 2- “lipped ; “corolla inserted in its 
bottom. 
Legume many-jointed, aaue ou break- 
ing up . . 43. DESMODIUM. 
Legume imperfectly jointed, ‘not t spontaneously 
separating. . se . . . . 44, ANARTHROSYNE. 
Leaves simple or 1- foliolate. 
Unarmed undershrubs or herbs. 
bo 
. STYLOSANTHUS. 
. Legume separating into 2 or more joints . . 45. ALYSICARPUS. 
Legume 1-seeded, indehiscent ; flowers axillary. 
Leaves obcordate ; stipules drdst. At REQUIENIA. 
Leaves cordate or ‘lanceolate ; stipulesadnate 47. Hanura. 
Spinous shrubs. Legume irregularly constricted, 
indehiscent . . . . . 48. ALHAGI. 
Tribe 10. VICIER. uae ginal meas or + Sababael goes above the 
base.—Herbs, with abruptly pinnate leaves, the common petiole prolonged 
into a tendril or excurrent point. 
Style with a tuft of hairs below the stigma . . . 49. Vici. 
Tribe 11. PHasroLEx. Stamens diadelphous, or monadelphous above 
the base. Legume 2-valved, 1-celled.—Stem frequently climbing, prostrate 
or diffuse. Leaves usually pinnately- -3-foliolate, sometimes 1-foliolate (in 
Abrus multijugate), stipellate. 
