FABACEAE. 49 



Shrubs, or trees or woody vines, with 1-foliolate 



or pinnate leaf-blades. 



Fruit 2-valved or indehiscent, not a loment. 

 Foliage not glandular-dotted. 



Pods dehiscent. Tribe II. GALEGBAB. 



Pods indehiscent. Tribe III. DALBERGIEAE. 



Foliage glandular-dotted. Tribe IV. PSORALEAE. 



Fruit a loment. Tribe V. HEDYSAREAE. 



Shrubs or trees with 3-foliolate leaf-blades. Tribe VI. PHASEOLEAE. 



TRIBE I. SOPHOREAE. 

 Inflorescence racemose : pods moniliform, drooping. 1. SOPHORA. 



TRIBE II. GALEGEAE. 

 Leaf-blades unequally pinnate. 



Erect or diffuse plants : wings cohering with the keel : keel- 

 petals slightly auricled at the base of the blades. 2. CRACCA. 

 Twining vines : wings not cohering with the keel : keel- 

 petals with slender auricles at the base of the blades. 3. KRAUNHIA.' 

 Leaf-blades equally pinnate. 



Pod somewhat flattened, wingless. 4. AGATI. 



Pod 4-angled and 4-winged. 5. DAUBENTONIA. 



TRIBE III. DALBERGIEAE. 



Calyx not 2-lipped : standard flabellately veined, long-clawed. 6. DALBERGIA. 



Calyx prominently 2-lipped : standard pinnately veined, short- 

 clawed. 7. AMERIMNON. 



TRIBE IV. PSORALEAE 



Leaf-blades digitately 3-5-foliolate. 8. PAROSELA. 



Leaf-blades pinnately several- to many-foliolate. 9. AMORPHA. 



TRIBE V. HEDYSAREAE. 

 Erect or diffuse plants with white, blue, violet or purple corollas. 10. MEIBOMIA. 



TRIBE VI. PHASEOLEAE. 

 Prickly shrubs or trees with broad leaflet-blades and red corollas. 11. EBYTHRINA. 



1. SOPHORA L. Shrubs, trees, or herbs. Leaf-blades several-foliolate. 

 Racemes erect. Calyx nearly equally 5-lobed or truncate. Standard markedly 

 clawed. Wings and keel-petals auricled on one side. Pod thick. Seeds thick. 



1. S. tomentosa L. Shrub with copiously pubescent foliage : blades of the 

 leaflets oblong, oblong-ovate, or oval, or rarely spatulate, 2.5-6 cm. long, finely 

 pubescent beneath: calyx 5-8 mm. long, the limb undulate: corolla yellow, 18- 

 25 mm. long: blades of the wings and the keel-petal narrowly oblong: pods 

 5-11 cm. long, torulose. 



Coastal sand-dunes and shore-hammocks, s. pen. Fla. and the F. Keys. (W. I.) 



2. CRACCA. L. Herbs partly wood plants, or shrubs. Leaflets several or 

 many, broad or narrow. Flowers in racemes or spike-like panicles. Calyx 

 2-lipped, the upper 2 lobes usually shorter than the others and partially united. 

 Corolla pink, purple, or red, or white: standard pubescent: wings auricled on 

 one side at the base of the blade: keel-petals usually with an angular auricle. 

 Pods flat or flattish. CATGUT. GOATS '-RUE. 



Calyx with short scattered appressed hairs : leaflets and rachis, glabrous. 



1. C. anyustissima. 

 Calyx permanently hirsute : leaflets, and rachis, hirsute. 2. C. corallicola. 



1. C. angustissima (Shuttlw.) Kuntze. Stems glabrous: leaflets 11-17; blades 

 of the lateral ones narrowly linear or very narrowly linear, 13-45 mm. long: 

 calyx 4-5 mm. long; lobes of the upper lip lanceolate; lower lobe lanceolate, 

 much longer than the lateral ones: standard 9-11 mm. long: pods about 3 

 mm. wide. 



Pinelands, E. Keys. (Endemic.) 



Shrubs of Florida 4. 



