FAB ACE AE. 177 



Standard spurred at the base. 

 Standard not spurred at the base. 

 Pod covered with stinging hairs. 

 Pod without stinging hairs, pubescent or 

 glabrous. 

 Rachis of the inflorescence thickened 

 at the nodes. 

 Calvx-Iobes unequal. 

 Calyx 2-lipped. 

 Rachis of the inflorescence not thickened 

 at the nodes. 

 Erect ; half-shrubby ; seeds numerous. 

 Herbaceous, our species vines ; seeds 

 only 2 or 3. 

 Keel of the corolla coiled or curved. 

 Keel spirally coiled. 

 Keel not spirally coiled, incurved. 

 Stigma terminal. 

 Stigma oblique or lateral. 



1. ATELEIA Moc. & Sesse; Benth. Ann. Wien. Mus. 2: 101. 1837. 



Unarmed shrubs or small trees, with unevenly pinnate leaves, and small 

 white or greenish flowers, in narrow, simple or branched, axillary racemes. 

 Stipules minute or none. Bracts minute. Calyx truncate or minutely 5-toothed. 

 Wings and keel-petals wanting; standard hooded, clawed. Stamens 10, distinct; 

 anthers ovate, all alike. Ovary short-stipitate, 2-ovuled ; stigma inflexed, nearly 

 sessile. Pod irregularly obovate-orbicular, stipitate, flat, indehiscent, the upper 

 suture narrowly winged. Seed flat, reniform; cotyledons fleshy; radicle in- 

 flexed. [Greek, defective.] Three known species of Central America and the 

 West Indies. Type species: Fterocarpus Ateleia DC. 



1. Ateleia cubensis Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8 : ISO. 1S60. 



Swartzia multijnga A. Eich. in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 10: 201. pi. 42. 1845. 



Not Vogel. 1837. 

 Ateleia multijuga Hitch. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 80. 1893. 



A shrub or small tree up to 5 m. high, the slender twigs glabrous, gray, the 

 inflorescence and young foliage densely brown-pubescent. Leaves 1-2 dm. long, 

 5-11-foliolate, glabrous or nearly so when old; leaflets oblong to elliptic or ob- 

 long-obovate, densely and finely reticulate-veined, subcoriaceous, entire, 3-6 cm. 

 long, 1-2 cm. wide, sessile, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, narrowed at the 

 base; racemes spike-like, shorter than the leaves, or as long; pedicels very 

 short; calyx broadly campanulate, truncate, 2-3 mm. long; standard about 3 

 mm. long ;"^ pod sleuder-stipitate, glabrous, 1.5-2 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, veiny, 

 cuneate-narrowed at the base. 



Thickets, coppices, pine-lands and scrub-lands. Great Bahama. Andros, New 

 Providence, Eleathera, Cat Island and Caicos Islands: — Cuba. .Stinkin«; tka Root. 



2. SOPHORA L. Sp. PI. 373. 1753. 



Leaves odd-pinnate. Flowers white, 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 in- 

 curved. Pod stalked, coriaceous or fleshy, terete, constricted between the seeds, 

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

 warm and tropical regions. Type species: Sophora alopecuroides L. 



