~———_—— " *- 
- THERMOPSIS. LEGUMINOS &. 121 
leaves and small flowers in pedunculate dense terminal spikes or 
heads; petals 5, on filiform claws that are united to the stamen-tube 
the upper one free, all deciduous: stamens 5, monadelphous: ovary 
with two collateral ovules: pods 1-seeded. ; 
TRIBE vi. ASTRAGALE&. Erect or decumbent herbaceous, rare- 
ly suffrutescent, plants with unequally pinnate leaves and axil- 
lary or radical, racemose or ppicate inflorescence. Stamens diadel- 
phous (9 and 1). » Pods 1-celled or often spuriously 2-celled by 
the introflexion of one or both sutures, dehiscent, several-seeded 
or rarely 1-2-seeded. Radicle incurved. 
11. «stragalus. Unarmed herbs with unequally pinnate leaves without 
tendrils and axillary spikes or racemes of comparatively small flow- 
ers: herbage neither glandular nor dotted: pods various, often 
coriaceous and turgid, or thin and bladderly-inflated, or thin and 
flat, more or less 2-celled by the intrusion of the dorsal suture: keel 
obtuse. ~ 
12. Oxytropis. Unarmed herbs or sometimes suffruticose plants, with 
unequally pinnate leaves: the flowers spicate on axillary or radi- 
cal peduncles: pods partly 2-celled by the introflexion of the pla- 
cental suture: keel with a subulate point. 
13. Glycyrrhiza. Glandular-viscid perennials with unequally pinnate 
leaves and flowers in peduncled axillary spikes: pods short, com- 
pressed, prickly, indehiscent, few-seeded. 
TRIBE vil. HeEpysARE®. Herbs or shrubs with pinnate or 
simple leaves, the flowers in axillary or terminal spikes, racemes 
or umbels. Stamens10, monadelphous or diadelphous. Pods 
usually transversely divided into 1-seeded indehiscent joints. 
14. Hedysarum. Herbs with unequally pinnate leaves, the flowers in 
axillary or terminal racemes: keel obliquely truncate, longer than 
the wings: stamens diadelphous: pods of several 1-seeded joints 
connected by their middle. 
TriBe vin. VicreEm®. Herbs with abruptly pinnate leaves, the 
common petiole not articulated with the stem, produced at the 
apex into a bristle or tendril, the flowers in axillary racemes. 
Stamens 10, diadelphous. Pods not jointed, dehiscent. Cotyle- 
dons remaining under ground and unchanged in germination. 
Radicle inflexed. 
15. Vicia. Weak herbs with stems climbing by tendrils which termin- 
ate the pinnate leaves, and 1-—several-flowered axillary peduncles. 
Style bent upward at the apex and villous under the stigma on the 
under or outer side. 
16. Lathyrus. Herbs clinging by tendrils which terminate the pinnate 
leaves and few—several-flowered axillary peduncles: style bent at 
right angles to the ovary and villous in a line on the inside. 
Tribe 1 Podalyriex Benth. B.& H. Gen. i, 487. Mostly herbs 
with simple or digitately trifoliolate, rarely many-foliolate, leaves. 
and papilionaceous flowers. Stamens 10, free, or slightly united at 
base. Pod dehiscent. Radicle incurved or inflexed. 
1 THERMOPSIS R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. e. 2, iii, 3. 
Stout perennial herbs with erect. stems, digitately trifoliolate 
