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FABACEAE. 



Pods straight. 



Flowers in long narrow racemes ; pods cori- 

 aceous. 

 Flowers capitate, umbellate or short-racemose ; 

 pods membranous. 

 Leaves pinnate. 

 Vines (Cajan an erect shrub) ; leaves 3-foliolate. 

 Inflorescence simply racemose ; shrub. 

 Inflorescence nodose-racemose ; vines. 

 Keel spirally coiled. 

 Keel merely curved. 



Style bearded along the inner side. 

 Stigma oblique or lateral. 

 Stigma small, terminal. 

 Style glabrous. 

 Leaves pinnate with a terminal tendril or tip. 



1. SOPHORA L. 



4. llelilotus. 



5. Trifolium. 



6. IndUjofera. 



7. Cajan. 



8. Phaseolus. 



9. Vigna. 



10. Dolichos. 



11. Canavali. 



12. Vicia. 



Leaves odd-pinnate. Flowers vrhite, yellow or violet, in terminal racemes 

 or panicles. Calyx generally campanulate, its teeth short. Standard obovate 

 or orbicular; wings obliquely oblong; keel oblong, nearly straight. Stamens 

 all distinct or very nearly so; anthers versatile. Ovary short-stalked; style 

 incurved. Pod stalked, coriaceous or fleshy, terete, constricted between the 

 seeds, mainly indehiscent. [Name Arabic, yellow,] About 25 species, natives 

 of Avarm and tropical regions. Type species: Sophora alopecuroides L. 



1. Sophora tomentosa L. Coast 

 Sophora. (Fig. 195.) A shrub 3°- 

 9° tall, with tomentose foliage. 

 Leaves 4-8' long; leaflets 11-17, the 

 blades leathery, oblong, oblong-obo- 

 vate or oval, inequilateral, becoming 

 glabrous and revolute; racemes elon- 

 gating, 4'-16' long; pedicels 2"-5" 

 long; calyx oblong or oblong-funnel- 

 form, 3"-4" long, constricted at the 

 base, the edge undulate or indis- 

 tinctly 5-lobed ; corolla yellow ; stand- 

 ard with an ovate blade fully 5" 

 broad, and over 6" long; keel-petals 

 10" long; pods 2'-4' long, strongly 

 constricted between the seeds, long- 

 stalked. 



Local on coastal rocks, Smith's Is- 

 land, St. David's Island, southern shores 

 and Boaz Island. Native. Coasts of 

 Florida and the West Indies. Flowers 

 from summer to spring. Doubtless trans- 

 ported to Bermuda by floating. 

 Lefroy records failure in establishing Sophora cMnensis G. Don. 



2. CROTALAHIA L. 



Herbs, sometimes slightly woody, with simple (or in some tropical species 

 3-7-foliolate) leaves and racemose mostly yellow flowers. Calyx 5-toothed, 

 slightly 2-lipped; standard orbicular or ovate, often cordate; wings oblong 

 or obovate; keel curved. Stamens monadelphous, their sheath deeply cleft; 

 anthers of 2 forms, alternating with each other, the one small, versatile, the 

 other larger; style more or less curved; pod oblong or globose, inflated, many- 

 seeded, the seeds loose at maturity. [Greek, a rattle.] About 250 species, 

 mainly of tropical regions. Type species: Crotalaria lotifolia L. 



