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numerous, all leaflets parallel-nerved, usually silky beneath; 

 stipules free from the petiole, usually lanceolate or subulate, 

 sometimes reduced to spines ; stipels scarce or or, in one case, 

 almost spinous. Flowers reddish or white, in terminal or leaf- 

 opposed racemes or solitary or in pairs in the axils of the leaves, 

 bracteate ; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tube campanulate, teeth subequal 

 or the lower longer, the 2 upper often slightly connate. Petal* 

 clawed; standard suborbicular; wings obliquely oblong or obo- 

 vate, slightly adherent to the incurved keel petals. Stamens dia- 

 delphous, the vexillary filament at first free below connate above, 

 afterwards quite free ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, linear, 

 many-ovuled ; style incurved, often flattened, glabrous or bearded ; 

 stigma terminal, often penicillate. Pod linear, flattened, con- 

 tinuous within or obscurely septate, dehiscing by both sutures. 

 Seeds many, reniforni elliptic or ovoid ; strophiole usually 0, 

 sometimes small, sometimes rather conspicuous. 



ANALYSIS AND DESCRIPTIONS AFTER J. R. DRUMMOND. 



Flower (including calyx) less than '125 in. long; claw of standard 

 more than one-third as long as the limb ; pod not more than 1 in. 



long; style in fruit deflexed 1. tennis. 



Flower (including calyx) at least '125 in. long ; claw of standard less 

 than one-third as long as the limb ; pod l-3'5 in. long ; style in fruit 

 more or less recurved or ascending : 



Petiole angled and compressed, the angles and margins winged, the 

 marginal wings excurrent as a pair of short stipellary spines ; 



leaflet-margin indurated 2. calophylla. 



Petiole not compressed, its margins not winged ; wings exstipellate ; 

 leaflet-margin not indurated: 



Calyx-teeth broadly deltoid, the anterior alone equalling or longer 

 than the tube ; pedicels in fruit manifestly articulate upon the 

 axis : 



Pod more than 2- 5 in. long ; inflorescence not elongate : 

 Terminal leaflet larger than the lateral ones which are about 

 1 in. long, white-silky beneath ; stipules and bracts deltoid- 

 lanceolate, deciduous ; pod closely covered with short dull 

 golden (when dry) toinentum ; seeds oblong-reniform in 

 outline, hardly compressed, '2 by '1 in., smooth; strophiole 



narrowly horseshoe-shaped, chalk-white 3. wynaadensis. 



Terminal leaflet about equalling the lateral, T5-2 in. long j 



