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style filiform ; stigma terminal, or situated laterally on the inner side, below the 

 extremity of the style. POD either 1 -celled, opening in 2 valves, which sometimes 

 separate from the placentas (Carmichcelia) ; or divided into 2 cells by a longitudinal 

 septum (Astragalus, Oxytropis) ; or divided by transverse septa into superimposed 

 cellules; or divided by strangulation (isthmus) into 1 -seeded joints, which separate 

 when ripe. SEED with a soft, generally carunculate testa. EMBKTO exalbuminous 

 or -albuminous; radicle bent. 



[Divided by Bentharn in the ' Genera Plantarum ' into the following eleven 

 tribes. 



TRIBE I. PODALYRIE.E. Shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves simple or digitately compound. 

 Stamens 10, free. Anagyris, Thermopsis, Baptisia, Podalyria, Brachysema, Oxylobium, Chorizema, 

 Mirbelia, and numerous other (chiefly Australian) genera. 



TRIBE II. GENISTE^E. Shrubs or herbs. Leaves simple or digitately compound, leaflets 

 quite entire. Flowers solitary, fascicled, or in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes. Stamens 10, 

 usually monadelphous. Priestleya, Bossicea, Hovea, Goodia, Rafnia, Lotononis, Lebeclcia^ Aspa- 

 lathus, Crotalaria, Lupinus, Laburnum, Genista, TJlex, Cytisus, &D. 



TRIBE III. TRIFOLIE^;. Herbs, rarely shrubby. Leaves 3-foliolate, usually toothed by 

 the excurrent nerves. Stamens 10, monadelphous or diadelphous. Ononis, Trigonella, 

 Medicago, Melilotus, Trifolium, Parochetus. 



TRIBE IV. LOTE^E. Herbs or shrubs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, leaflets quite entire. 

 Flowers usually umbelled or capitate. Stamens 10, monadelphous or diadelphous ; alternate 

 filaments often dilated. Antliyllis, Lotus, Hosackia, &c. 



TRIBE V. GALEGE^;. Herbs (not climbing), trees, or erect or climbing shrubs. Leaves 

 pinnately 5-x - (rarely 3-1-) foliolate ; leaflets usually quite entire. Pod 2-valved or small, 1-2- 

 seeded, and vesicular. Psoralea, Amorpha, Dalea, Indigo/era, Galega, Teplirosea, Milletia, 

 Wistaria, Robinia, Sesbania, Carmiclicelia, Cliantlms, Lessertia, Sivainsonia, Colutea, Caragana, 

 Astragalus, Oxytropis, Glycirrliiza. 



TRIBE VI. HEDYSARE^E. Habit of IV., V., and VIII., but pod inarticulate. Scorpiurus, Or- 

 nitlwpus, Coronilla, Hippocrepis, Hedysarum, Onobrychis, Ormocarphtm, jEschynomyne, Smithia, 

 Adesmia, Arachis, Desmodium, Uvaria, Alysicarpus, Lespedeza. 



TRIBE VII. VICIE^E. Herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, petiole ending in a tendril or 

 point, leaflets usually toothed at the tip. Stamen and pod of VIII. Cicer, Vicia, Lens, 

 Lathyrus, Pisum, Abrus, &c. 



TRIBE VIII. PHASEOLE^E. Herbs, usually twining, rarely erect, or shrubs or trees. Leaves 

 usually pinnately 3- (rarely 3-7-) foliolate; leaflets entire or lobed. Pod 2-valved. Centro- 

 scma, Clitoria, Glycine, Hardenbergia, Kennedya, Erythrina, Mucuna, Butea, Galactia, Campto- 

 sema, Dioclea, Pueraria, Canavalia, Phaseolus, Vigna, Dolichos, Rhynchosia, &c. 



TRIBE IX. DALBERGIE^:. Erect or climbing trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnately 1-3-5-cc - 

 foliolate. Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous. Pod indehiscent. Dalbergia, Pterocarpus, 

 Loncliocarpus, Derris, Dipteryx, Inocarpus, &c. 



TRIBE X. SOPHORE^;. Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing, rarely small or subherbaceous. 

 Leaves pinnately 5 oo -foliolate, or broad and 1 3-foliolate. Stamens 10, free. Dalhousvea, 

 Baphia, Calpurnea, Sophora, Ormosia, Myroxylon, &c. 



TRIBE XI. SWARTZIE^. See sub-order SWARTZIEJE, p. 366. Ei>.] 



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