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along the rachis of a raceme, rarely fasciculate or solitary, the racemes 

 terminal or casually at the same time also axillary ; standard usually 

 cuneate at the base, wings as long as or longer than keel and usually 

 adherent to its base ; upper stamen free or coherent with the rest from 

 the base upwards; pod sometimes (Phylacium) 1-jointed, sometimes 

 (Desmodium § Nicholsonia) opening along the lower suture. 



37. Phylacium. Ovary 1-ovuled ; pod 1-seeded. 



38. Uraria. Ovary 2- or more-ovuled ; pod folded inside calyx ; 



calyx-tuhe short, teeth long, not accrescent. 



39. Lourea. Ovary 2- or more-ovuled; fod folded inside calyx; 



calyx-tuhe large, teeth small, accrescent in fruit. 



40. Alysicarpus. Ovary 2- or more-ovuled; pod straight exserted ; 



joints of pod coriaceous as thick as they are long and broad. 



41. Desmodium. Ovary 2- or more-ovuled ; pod straight exserted; 



joints of pod membranous or, if coriaceous (§ Dendrolobium), 

 broader than their thickness, and, if as thick as they are broad, 

 ( § Scorpiurus) then much longer than broad. 

 Tribe VII. Sophore^. Trees or tall shrubs, very rarely sub- 

 herbaceous or large climbers. Leaves pinnately 5-co -foliolate or 1 -folio- 

 late. Corolla papilionaceous or almost regular the upper petal outer in 

 bud, the lower ones occasionally absent. Stamens 10, free or very slight- 

 ly connate at the base. Fod indehiscent unsegmented, or 2-valved. 

 Radicle straight, incurved or inflexed. 



42. Sophora. Pod moniliform elongated, indehiscent. 



43. Ormosia. Pod short thickly coriaceous, 2-valved. 



B. SuBOTtBEB II. G^SALPINIE^. Calyx-segments partite to the disc, 

 very rarely {some Bauhinias) gautosepalous. Petals imbricated the upper- 

 most internal. Radicle straight or, rarely, slightly oblique. Stamens 

 almost alivays free. 



Tribe YIII. Gassier. Trees, rarely shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves 

 odd- or even-pinnate. Calyx segments or sepals 5, rarely 4-3, divided 

 to the disc, imbricate or rarely snbvalvate. Petals 5 or fewer or 0. 

 Anthers erect, thick, basifixed, dehiscence longitudinal or 2-porose; or 

 rarely dorsifixed and 2-porose. Ovary or stipe free inside calyx-tube. 

 Ovules 2 — CO , rarely 1. Seeds albuminous. 



44. Cassia. Sepals 5, petals 5 ; stamens 10 or 5, leaves even-fiwiate. 



45. Koompassia. Sepals 5, petals 5 ; stamens 5 ; leaves odd-pinnate. 



46. Dialiura. Sepals 5, petals 2 or 1 or 0, stamens 2 ; leaves odd- 



pinnate. 

 Tribe IX. Bauhinie^. Woody tendril-bearing climbers, rarely 

 trees. Leaves simple, entire or 2-lobed ; rarely 2-foljolate. Calyx gamo- 

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