Victorian Plants. 47 



231. Fruit unjointed. 



Shrubs; leaves consisting of three leaflets; flowers in racemes; 

 petals yellowish ; anthers alternately elongated and 

 abbreviated ; fruit much compressed ; seeds with an 

 appendage. Goodia. 1024 



Fruit jointed. 



Herbaceous plants; leaves usually consisting of two leaflets; 

 anthers alternately elongated and abbreviated; fruit- 

 articules separately seceding, indehiscent. Zornia. 1025 



232. Fruit jointed. 



Herbs or shrubs; stipules present; sometimes all the stamens 

 connate into a tube ; anthers equal ; fruit narrow, mostly 

 elongated, the joints often partly seceding. 



Desmodium. 1026 



Fruit unjointed 233 



233. Leaves consisting of one or three leaflets, or of several 



leaflets placed radiatingly. (Exception: elsewhere Psoralea 

 partly) 234 



Leaves nearly always pinnate ... ... ... 239 



234. Fruit with one seed 235 



Fruit with two or more seeds ... ... ... 236 



235. Seed free from the outer portion of the fruit. 



Herbs or shrubs ; stipules absent ; anthers equal ; ovulary 

 with a single ovule ; fruit minute, compressed, indehiscent. 



Lespedeza. 1027 

 Seed adherent to the outer portion of the fruit. 



Herbs or shrubby plants, few arborescent, always glandular- 

 dotted ; stipules unlike the leaflets ; petals usually red 

 or blue ; fruit minute, indehiscent ; seed without any 

 appendage. Psoralea. 1028 



236. The two lowest leaflets replacing stipules. 



Herbaceous or somewhat shrubby plants ; leaves consisting 

 of five leaflets or the floral leaves trifoliolate ; lower petals 

 pointed ; filaments alternately dilated upwards ; fruit 

 narrow ; seeds without any appendage. Lotus. 1032 



Stipules very dissimilar to the leaflets ... ... 237 



