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7. INDIGOFERA. Keel spurred on each side near the base, 

 pod usually linear or cylindrical. 



8. PSORALEA. Leaves simple, dotted with glands, petals 

 all clawed, pod ovoid or oblong, one-seeded, indehiscent. 



9. TEPHROSIA. Petals clawed, pod linear, flat, many- 

 seeded. 



10. SESBANIA. Herbs or soft wooded shrubs, leaflets very 

 numerous, deciduous, petals long-clawed, pod very long and 

 narrow. 



(d) HEDYSARE^E. Pod either one-seeded or made up of 

 many separate joints, and so not easily recognized as a pod. 



11. TAVERNIERA. Undershrubs, leaves simple or trifoliate, 

 ovary stalked, pod of 3 or 4 joints, or simple. 



12. GEISSAPSIS. Leaflets 2 pairs, flowers with conspicuous 

 membranous bracts, pod of 2 turgid joints, or simple. 



13. ALHAGI. A low thorny shrub with simple leaves, pod 

 of several joints. 



14. ZORNIA, Leaflets one or two pairs, flowers with large 

 bracts, pod of several round flat warty joints. 



15. SMITHIA. Leaflets many, small, pod of several flattened 

 joints folded together within the calyx. 



10. vEscHYNOMENE. Leaflets as in the last, pod straight, 

 exserted from the calyx, stalked, and with several flat joints. 



17. PSEUDARTHRIA differs from the last in the pod not being 

 jointed but linear, one to six-seeded. 



18. URARIA. Flowers very numerous, small, pod of about 

 4 joints, twisted or pressed together within the calyx. 



19. ALYSICARPUS. Diffuse plants, leaves generally simple, 

 calyx quite as large as corolla, pod of several joints, not 

 flattened or twisted. 



20. OUGEINIA. A tree, leaves trifoliate, pod linear flat, of 

 two to five large joints. 



21. DESMODIUM. Leaves trifoliate or simple, pod of 

 several joints often straight on one edge, divided on the other. 



(e) VICIE^). Vetches. Leaves even-pinnate ending in a 

 tendril, pod dehiscent, not jointed. 



22. ABRUS. Climbing shrubs with only 9 stamens, united 

 into a tube split above, style short incurved. 



23. CICER. Leaflets toothed, flowers solitary, pod sessile, 

 turgid, tipped with the style. 



(f) PHASEOLEJI. Usually climbers with trifoliate leaves, 

 pod as in the last tribe, stamens usually diadelphous. 



