105- LEGUMINOSAE 287 



356. Flowers in axillary racemes, without bracteoles. Corolla white. Ovary 



stalked, not surrounded by a disc. Style hairy at the apex. Stipules 



spine-like. (See 203.) Robinia L. 



Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles, with bracteoles. Corolla red, 

 bluish, or white. Ovary usually surrounded at the base by a disc 

 Style glabrous. — Species 60. Tropical and South-east Africa. Some 

 species yield timber, dyes, and poison. . . Millettia Wight & Arn. 



357. Calyx-teeth distinctly developed. Fruit dehiscing by two valves. Shrubs. 



Bracteoles absent 358 



Calyx-teeth very short or wanting. Fruit indehiscent. Trees or climbing 

 shrubs. Bracteoles present 359 



358. Petals acuminate, red; standard lanceolate; keel beaked. Style 



glabrous. — Species 10. Madagascar Chadsia Boj. 



Petals obtuse or subacute, white or red ; standard suborbicular ; keel, 

 not beaked. (See 233.) Tephrosia Pers. 



359. Fruit winged. Seeds flat. Ovary sessile or short-stalked. (See 351.) 



Derris Lour. 

 Fruit not winged 360 



360. Fruit with a thick-leathery, almost woody pericarp, oblique-oblong, not 



thickened at the sutures. Seed i, kidney-shaped, rather thick. Ovary 

 subsessile, with 2 ovules. Climbing shrubs. Flowers in racemes,, 

 reddish. — Species i. Seychelles. The wood and the oily seeds are 



used. {Galedtipa Lam.) Pongamia Vent. 



Fruit with a membranous or leathery pericarp. Seeds flat. (See 303.) 



Lonchocarpus H. B. & K. 



361. (354.) Stem shrubby, erect or climbing. 302 



Stem tree-like 371 



362. Stjde bearded lengthwise towards the apex. Ovules numerous. Fruit 



indehiscent or dehiscing at the top (jnly. Flowers in axillary racemes. 



3f>3 

 Style glabrous, or hairy at the base only, or bearing a penicillate stigma. 



363. Style bearded on the back or all round. Stigma terminal. Corolla red 



or white; keel blunt, shorter than the standard. Fruit finally de- 

 hiscing at the top. (See 340.) Lessertia DC 



Style bearded on the inner side only, (jvary stalked. Fruit inflated, 

 indehiscent 364 



364. Stigma terminal. Corolla red ; keel pointed, exceeding the standard. 



Bracteoles present. — Species i. South Africa. Used as an orna- 

 mental plant Sutherlandia R. Br. 



Stigma placed beneath the hooked apex of the style. Corolla yellow ; 

 keel blunt ; standard with two callosities on the inner side. — Species 

 2. North Africa and Abyssinia. They (especially C. arborescens L. 

 bladder senna) are used as ornamental plants and yield a d3-e and 

 medicaments Colutea L. 



