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1. Or. Crista (L.) Small. Straggling or spreading shrub: leaflets numerous; 

 blades ovate, oblong-ovate, or nearly oblong, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, mucronate: 

 racemes or panicles 1-4 dm. long: sepals 9-11 mm. long, mostly obtuse: petals 

 dull-yellow, the narrower ones 10-13 mm. long, truncate and 3-toothed at the 

 apex: pods oval or oval-oblong, 5-7 cm. long. Coastal sand-dunes and shore 

 hammocks. F. K. (Ber., Bah., Cuba, Ant.) GRAY-NICKER. 



2. G. Bonduc L. Plants similar to G. Crista in habit, but leaflets relatively 

 larger: sepals mostly acute: narrower petals rounded and merely uneven at 

 the apex. Coastal sand-dunes and shore hammocks. F. K. (Bah., Cuba, 

 Ant.) YELLOW-NICKER. 



5. TAMAEINDUS [Tourn.] L. Unarmed trees. Leaves relatively small: 

 leaflets numerous. Sepals 4. Petals 3, often with 2 additional rudiments. 

 Stamens 3, the filaments united to about the middle, alternating with 3 minute 

 staminodia. Ovary elongate: pod indehiscent, succulent within. 



1. T. indica L. Tree with spreading branches: leaflets 18-36, 1-2 cm. long, 

 the blades oblong to linear-oblong, becoming reticulate: sepals 10-12 mm. 

 long: petals yellowish or reddish, 13-16 mm. long, crisped: pod thick, 6-13 

 cm. long, more or less curved, the edges rounded. Hammocks. Nat. of the E. 

 Indies. F. K. (Bah., Cuba, Ant.) TAMARIND. 



FAMILY 5. FABACEAE. PEA FAMILY. 



Herbs, shrubs, trees, or vines. Leaves alternate: blades 1-compound, 

 1-many-foliolate, or rarely simple. Flowers mostly perfect, irregular. 

 Calyx of 5 more or less unequal partially united sepals. Corolla of 5 

 (or of 1 petal in Amorpha), unequal distinct or nearly distinct petals 

 which are 2 keel-petals, 2 wings, and 1 standard which surrounds the 

 others. Androecium of 10 monodelphous, diadelphous or rarely distinct 

 stamens, or rarely 9 or 5. Gynoecium 1-carpellary. Ovary superior. 

 Fruit a dehiscent or indehiscent legume, or a loment. 



Stamens 10: filaments distinct. TKIBB I. SOPHOREAB. 



Stamens 10 or fewer : filaments monadelphous or 



diadelphous. 

 Leaves destitute of tendrils. 



Herbs or 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. 



Anthers of 2 kinds : filaments mona- 



delphous. TRIBE II. GEMSTEAE. 



Anthers all alike : filaments diadel- 

 hous at least beyond the middle. 



TRIBE I. SOPHOREAE. 

 Inflorescence racemose : pods moniliform. 1. SOPHORA. 



TRIBE II. GENISTEAE. 

 Stipules at least the upper ones decurrent : pods inflated. 2. CROTALARIA. 



TRIBH III. GALEGEAE. 

 Leaf-blades unequally pinnate. 



Pods 4-angled or very turgid. 3. INDIGOFERA. 



