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* Btameos 10. FetalB tree or connate. 



O Flowers in globnlar or pyriforni heads. 

 Paikia. Flowor-beada large, the lower flowers neater, with 10 long ooloared monadelphong staminods. Pod 



indehisoent, coriaoeoos. 

 Xtua. Flower-head small. Pods elastically dehiscing, woody. 



OO Flowers in spikes or racemes. 

 Entada. Flowers sessile. Pods often very large, woody with thick satnres, the alvea transversely articulate 



within the sntores. 

 Adchantheka. Flowers shortly pedicelled. Pods thin ooriaceoos, elongate, targid, inside transversely septate be- 

 tween the seeds, dehiscing. 



Stamens indefinite, often very nnmerons. 

 Acacia. Stamens free or rarely united at the base. Pods rarioas. 

 Albizzia. Stamens united in a tube. Pods various. 



MIUETnA. 



* Stamens monadelphous. Pods more or lees woody or rigidly coriaceous. Seeds much 



compressed. 



O The valves of pod flat or somewhat convex, without prominent ledges. 



Young parts and leaves beneath slightly pubescent ; corolla glabrous, lilac ; pods appressed 



puberulous M. pulchra. 



Toung parts slightly pubescent ; corolla pubescent, lilac ; pods glabrous, . .. .M. Brandisiana. 

 Young shoots silky pubescent ; corolla glabrous, white ; pods thick, lenticellate- 



rough, M. leucantha. 



Glabrous ; corolla glabrous, blue ; pods thick, warted, M. ovalifolia. 



00 The valves of pod extended into prominent ledges or wings. 

 Young shoots slightly pubescent ; leaflets bluntish acuminate ; racemes almost glabrous, 



flowers steel blue ; pods sharply edged, M. glaucescens. 



As former, but racemes pubescent, flowers white, 31. pubinervis. 



Shortly tomentose especially while young ; leaflets rounded ; flowers pale blue ; pods undulate 



winged, ... M. tetraptera. 



* Stamens diadelphous. Pods leathery, the valves very convex and smooth. Seeds 



not compressed. 



Glabrous; corolla purple, glabrous, M. atropurpurea. 



SESBANIA. 



X Flowers 2-3 inch long. Standard acute or hluntish. 



Glabrous ; flowers white, scarlet or variegated S. grandiflora. 



X X Flowers less than an inch long. Standard broad, more or less notched. 

 Glabrous ; racemes drooping already from the base, S. Aegyptiaca. 



ERYTHRINA. 



* Wings much longer than the calyx. Pods torose or almost moniliform, the valves 



opening at both sutures and exposing the continuous pithy chartaceous indehiscent 

 endocarp enclosing the seeds. 



Glabrous ; leaves membranous or chartaceous ; pods glabrous ,,, ,,E. Indica. 



* * Wrings minute, as long or shorter than the calyx. Pods follicle-like opening along 



the ventral suture, continuous. Seeds free. 



Leaflets glabrous, acuminate ; calyx spathaceous, ..E. stricta. 



Leaflets more or less shortly tomentose or puberulous beneath, blunt ; calyx spathaceous, 2- 

 lobed, E. suberosa. 



* * * Wings much longer than the calyx. Pods flat, torose, opening along the sinuate 



outer suture, the dorsal suture straight and prominent. Seeds free, hut usually 

 separated by spurious spongy septa. 



Glabrous, glaucous. Standard broad, notched ; pods minutely greyish-velvety, E. ovalifolia. 



* * * * Wings much longer than the calyx. Pods on a 1-2 inch long stalk, butea-like 



dilated at base and flat, opening at both sutures bearing the 1-3 free seeds at or 

 towards the narrowed end. Flowers almost sessile. 



Standard minutely velvety, keel-petals free at summit and at base, E. holoscricea. 



Standard glabrous ; keel-petals connate, obcordate . and shortly acuminate in the si- 

 nus E. lithosperma. 



BOTE*. Only tree, , B.frondosa. 



DALBERGIA, 



* Stamens united in a single slit sheath. Flowers while. 



Bracteoles deciduous, wanting at the time of expansion of flowers. 

 All parts glabrous. Leaflets 3-7, almost orbicular to obovate, notched or blunt,. .D. latifolia. 



