Rothia.] LEGUMINOSAE. 279 



Calyx not accrescent : 



Leaves pinnate ; pod compressed 51. Rhynchosia. 



Leaves digitate ; pod turgid 52. Flemingia . 



Tribe YII. DALBERGIEAE. Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing ; 

 leaves imparipimiate ; stamens moiiadelphous or diadelphous ; pod 

 continuous, indehiscent : 

 Leaflets alternate : 



Flowers small, whitish reddish or pale blue ; pods oblong or 

 linear ; anthers terminal, dehiscing in a vertical slit 



.->:'. Dalbergia. 

 Flowers large, yellow ; pods suborbicular ; anthers versatile, 



dehiscing longitudinally ."34. Pterocarpus. 



Leaflets opposite : 



Pods flattened, thick, almost woody, not winged... 55. Pongamia. 

 Pods flat, thin, winged down one or both sides 5G. Derris. 



Table VIII. SOPHOREAE. Trees or shrubs; leaves imparipinnate, 

 rarely simple; stamens free or very slightly connate at base; pod 

 not jointed, indehiscent or 2-valved : 



Stigma terminal ; pods usually indehiscent : 



Pod monilif orm ; calyx-teeth very short 57. Sophora. 



Pod flat, membranous; calyx-teeth short 58. Calpurnia. 



Stigma oblique ; pod turgid, dehiscent, fleshy or coriaceous ; calyx 

 deeply cleft 59. Ormosia. 



1. Rothia, Pers. 



Annuals. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate, stipules free. Flowers 

 small, solitary, or in short racemes from the axils of the leaves. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate, teeth subeqnal, lanceolate, the 2 upper 

 broader and falcate. Corolla scarcely exserted, the petals long- 

 clawed, standard ovate or oblong ; wings narrow ; keel-petals like 

 the wings scarcely cohering. Stamens monadelphous ; filaments 

 united in a tube cleft above ; anthers minute, uniform. Ovary 

 sessile, linear, many-ovuled ; style straight, filiform ; stigma 

 minute, capitate. Pod linear, slender, compressed, nearly straight, 

 many-seeded, dehiscing at the dorsal suture. Seeds reniform on 

 filiform funicles. 



ROTHIA TRIFOLIATA, Pers.; F. B. I. ii. 63 ; W. & A. 195; 



Wt. Ic. t. 199. 



N. Circars, Deccaii and Carnatic, in dry Districts, in fields 

 and on waste land. 



