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Tribe 7. Oalegej^. (aen. 32-37.) 



32. TEPHROSIA, Pers. 



Calyx ebracteolate, bell-sliapecl, subcqually 5-toothed or 

 cleft. Standard suborbicular, large, spreading, silky or villous 

 externally ; wings adhering to the keel. Stamens monadelphous 

 or diadelplious. Ovary many-ovuled ; style filiform, glabrous 

 or bearded. Legume linear, compressed, coriaceous, straight 

 or curved, sessile or stipitate, continuous or with partitions 

 between the seeds ; seeds compressed. — Fl. Cap. ii, p. 203. 



A considerable genus of hot countries. Shrubs half-shrubs or herbs, with 

 imparipinnate, rarely digitate or 1-foliolate leaves and free stipules. 

 Flowers racemose, red purple or white. — 21 South African species, chiefly 

 from the Eastern district and frontier, Caffraria, and Natal. 



33. MILLETTIA, W. and A. 



Calyx urceolate, bluntly toothed. Standard recurved, emar- 

 ginate, longer than the wings, w^hich are longer than the keel. 

 Stamens imperfectly monadelphous, the upper stamen free 

 at base. Legume elliptical or lanceolate, few-seeded, hard 

 and woody, with thickened margins, tardily splitting open. — 

 Fl. Cap. ii. p. 211. 



Trees of subtropical Africa and Asia. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets opposite, 

 stipelled. Hacemes or panicles axillary or terminal. Flowers purple or 

 reddish. — 2 South African species, both from Natal. 



34. SESBANIA, Pers. 



Calyx 2-bracteolate, cup-shaped, subequally toothed or cleft. 

 Petals subequal in length; standard roundish, complicate, 

 crested on the claw or nude ; wings oblong ; keel long- clawed, 

 ascending, sharply eared or toothed at base. Stamens diadel- 

 phous, the tube wide and eared at base. Legume very long, 

 slender, compressed or cylindi'ical, wdth thickened sutures, 

 constricted between the seeds, and divided by cross septa into 

 many 1-seeded loculi. Seeds cylindrical, oblong. — Fl. Cap. ii. 

 p. 212. 



Tropical shrubs or tall herbs. S. aculeata, a tall, mostly glabrous and 

 glaucous shrub-like annual, several feet liigh, grows in the Natal country. 

 Leaves abruptly pinnate, multijugate ; leaflets linear, obtuse, mucronulate. 

 Kacemes short ; flowers yellow. Pod 1 foot long, not 2 lines wide. 



35. SUTHERLANDIA, E. Br. 



Calyx bell-shaped, 5-toothed. Standard oblong, shorter than 

 the oblong,boat-shaped keel, its sides reflexed; wings very short. 

 Stamens diadelplious. Ovary stipitate, many-ovuled ; style 

 bearded along the upper side and in front below the terminal 



