rU LSE FAMILY. 119 



roiiiidod, ^i.irailinf;; koel strnnfrly incurved, blunt, on Ifing, united claws. Style in- 

 curved, bearded down one side. Pod raised out of the calyx on a stalk of its own, 

 thin and bladdery-inllated, flattish on the .seed-bearing side, several-seeded. 

 =-==-- Woody climbers. 

 27. WI.S'IW i;i.\. High climber, with numerous leaflct.s. and large, showy, bluish flowers, 

 in luingiiig, terminal, dense racemes. Calyx with '2 short teeth on the ujiper, 

 and longer ones on tlic lower, side. Standard large, roundish, turned back; keel 

 merely incurved, blunt. Pod knobby, several-seeded. 



+^ +^ Pod jointed or constricted between the seeds (joint rarely reduced to 1) ,• leaflets 



;i or more; herbs (or Xo. 31 woody at base), not tunning or trailing. 



=" Leaflets 3 (or rarely hut 1 in No. 30). 



o Floioers yellow. 



26. STYLOS.WTTIES. Flowers in heads or short spikes, Itafy-bracted. Calyx with a 

 slender stalk-like tube, and 4 lobes in the upjjer lip, one for the lower. Stamens 

 monadelphous ; 5 longer anthers lixed by their base, 5 alternate ones by their 

 middle. Pud flat, reticulated, sometimes raised on a stalk-like, empty, lower joint. 

 Stipules iiuitc^d witli t)ic petiole. 



c o Floicers purple to white. 



29. LESPKDr.Z.\. Stipules small and free, or falling early. Flowers in spikes, clusters, 

 or panicled, or scattered. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Pod flat and 

 thin, ovate or orbicular, reticulated, sometimes raised on a stalk-like, empty, lower 

 joint. 



80. DESMODIU.M. Leaflet rarely only 1, stipellate. Pod of very flat joiiils (Lessons, 

 p. 122, Fig. 304), usually roughish and adhesive by minute-hooked pubescence. 

 Herbs, with small flowers, in racemes, which are often panicled. 



31. EI!VTHRINA. Shrubby, or from a woody base. Stem, branches, and even the leaf- 



stalks usually prickly. Flowers large and showy, usually red, in racemes. Wings, 

 and sometimes keel small and inconspicuous. Caly.^c without teeth. Standard 

 elongated ; wings often wanting or so small as to be concealed in the calyx ; keel 

 much shorter than the standard, sometimes very small. Pod stalked in the calyx, 

 linear, knobby, u.sually opening only down the seed-bearing suture. Seeds scarlet. 



32. GLYCINE. Leaflets large, thin, and bean-like. .Stipules very small and free, usually 



jiersistent. Flowers small and hairy, in short, axillary racemes, the calyx toothed. 

 Pod flat and bean-like, .short, in ours hanging, very hairy. Seed mostly short or 

 globular, and somewhat pea-like. Strong, erect, haiiy herbs. 

 ^ == Leaflets more than 3. 

 o Leaflets 4. 



33. ARACHIS. Annual. Flowers small, yellow, in a.\illary heads or spikes. Calyx with 



one narrow lobe making a lower lip, the ui)per lip broad and 4-toothed, and a long, 

 thread-shaped or stalk-like tube. Keel incurved and pointed. Stamens monadel- 

 phous, .5 anthers longer and fixed by or near their base, the alternate ones short and 

 tixed by their middle. Ovary at the bottom of the very long and stalk-like tube of 

 the calyx, containing 2 or 3 ovules ; when the long style and the calyx with the rest 

 of the flower falls away, the forming pod is protruded on a rigid, deflexed stalk which 

 then appears, and is pushed into the soil, where it ripens into the oblong, reticulated, 

 thick, coriaceous fruit, which contains the 1-3 large and edible seeds; the embrvo 

 composed of a pair of very thick and fleshy cotyledons and an extremely short, nearly 

 straight, nidicle. 



o o Leaflets 5 or more, often many. (Xo. 'Ju mai/ be sought here.) 



84. .^SCHYNO.MENE. Leaflets several, odd-pinnate, small. Pod of very flat Joints. 



Herbs, with small yellow flowers (sometimes purplish externally), few or several on 

 axillary peduncles. 



85. COKONILLA. Leaflets several, odd-pinnate, small. Pod of thickish, oblong or linear 



joints. Herbs or shrubs, with flowers in head-like umbels raised on slender, axillary 

 peduncles. 



