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Wings and keel more or less adnate to the filament-tube; ovules 2-6- leaves odd- 

 pinnate. 



Stamens 9 or 10. 14. P ARO SELA. 



Stamens 5. 15. PETALOSTEMON. 



TRIBE VII. GALEGEAE. 



Leaflets with stipels; pods margined on one edge; trees or shrubs. 16. ROBINIA 

 Leaflets without stipels; pods not margined; herbs or undershrubs. 



Stipules modified into spines. 17. PETERIA. 



Stipules not modified into spines. 



Keel (lower petal) not produced into a beak. 

 Leaves odd-cinnate, or unifoliolate or simple. 

 Pods papery, strongly inflated. 



Pods strictly 1-celled. 18. PHACA. 



Pods 2-celled. 



Pods terete or nearly so. 19. CYSTIUM 



Pods sharoly 3-angled in cross-section. 20. ONIX. 



Pods coriaceous or chartaceous, if thin-walled, not inflated. 

 Pods 2-celled with a perfect or nearly perfect partition. 

 Pods fleshy, indehiscent or very tardily dehiscent. 



21. GEOPRUMNON. 

 Pods membranous, leathery or woody, dehiscent. 



Pods ovoid or oblong, rarely almost didymous, terete or vertically 



flattened, leathery or woody. 22. ASTRAGALUS. 



Pods linear, somewhat laterally flattened, membranous. 



23. HAMOSA. 

 Pods 1-celled, the partition, if any, rudimentary. 



Lower suture strongly intruded, making the pod sagittate or ob- 

 cordate in cross-section; pod membranous, rarely leathery. 



24. TIUM. 



Lower suture not intruded or merely slightly so; pods in the latter 



case woody. 

 Pods woody or chartaceous, never flattened laterally; both 



sutiires not prominent. 

 Pods more or less stipitate. 



Pods with two grooves on the upper side, strictly 1-celled. 



25. DIHOLCOS. 

 Pods without grooves on the upper side, usually with a 



partial parti ton. 



Leaves unifoliolate. 26. JONESIELLA. 



Leaves odd-pinnate. 27. RYDBERGIELLA. 



Pods sessile, usually without even a rudimentary partition. 

 Valves of the pods not winged. 



Pods with a fleshy epicarp, in fruit cross-ribbed; leaf- 

 lets obscurely articulated to the rachis, fleshy, nar- 

 row. 28. CTENOPHYLLUM. 

 Pods without fleshy epicarp ; leaflets distinctly articu- 

 lated to the rachis. 

 Calyx cylindrical; flowers large; plant mostly low 



and cespitose. 30. XYLOPHACOS. 



Calyx campanulate; flowers small. 



Corolla yellow; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, 

 equalling the tube; stipules united; stem 

 low. 29. CNEMIDOPHACOS. 



Corolla purple; calyx-lobes triangular, much 

 shorter than the tube ; stipules free or nearly 

 so; stem tall and slender. 



31. MlCROPHACOS. 



Valves of the pods winged. 32. PTEROPHACOS. 



Pods membranous, usually somewhat flattened laterally, if terete, 



both sutures prominent. 



Partial partition present. 33. ATELEPHRAGMA. 



Partial partition wanting. 



Leaflets not spinulose- tipped; pods several-seeded. 



34. HOMALOBUS. 



Leaflets spinulose- tipped; pods 1-2-seeded. 



35. KENTROPHYTA. 

 Leaves digitately 3-foliolate. 



Flowers racemose. 36. OREOPHACA. 



Flowers capitate (some species of). 4. TRIFOLIUM. 



Keel (lower petals) produced into a beak. 37. ARAGALLUS. 



TRIBE VII. GLYCYRRHIZEAE. 

 One genus. 38. GLYCYRRHIZA. 



TRIBE IX. HEDYSARIEAE. 



Leaves odd-pinnate, with several pairs of leaflets, without stipels. 



Pods 4-several-seeded, neither spiny nor dorsally toothed. 39. HEDYSARUM. 



Pods 1-2-seeded, more or less spiny or toothed. 40. ONOBRYCHIS. 



Leaves 3-foliolate, with stipels. 41. MEIBOMIA. 



