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3AB2C. Pods with ventral suture not the more 

 arched rather fleshy. 

 Flowers not small, many. 



Pods erect or ascending. Flowers large. 



Flowers purple. Pods linear to narrowly oblong, 



reniform to elliptical in cross section, nearly 



straight. 19. Malaci. 



Flowers white or cream-colored. Pods curved, 



linear, triquetrous in cross section, smooth. 



20. Succumbens. 



Pods pendulous, narrow. Flowers v/hite or cre?.m- 



colored. 



Pods not long-tapering below. 25. Galegiformes. 



Pods long-tapering below. 26. Lonchocarpi. 



Pods spreading, rarely erect, broad and thick, mostly 



very fleshy. Leaflets long narrow and few. 



Stems coarse. 8. Podo-sclerocarpi. 



Flowers small. Pods spreading. Low plants. 



14. Lotiflori. 

 3A2B. Pods wholly 2-celled except at tip. Both sutures 

 variously intruded. 

 Pods inflated, mostly papery, not small, not shaggy. 

 Pods spherical to oval. Stems very slender. 



A. platytropis. 

 Pods oval to ovate, oblique. Stems not delicate. 

 Pods sessile. A. lentiginosus. 



Pods stipitate. A. Bolanderi and vallaris. 



Pods somewhat to not at all inflated. 



Pods not small, rarely narrow, not triquetrous. 

 Pods plum-shaped and very fleshy. 

 Pods sessile. 22. Sarcocarpi. 



Pods stipitate. A. accidens. 



Pods oblong and oblique, fleshy, stipitate. 



A. pachypus. 

 Pods narrowly oblong to oval, leathery, inclined 

 to be shaggy or leaves shaggy. 21. Mollissimi. 

 Pods small or narrow, triquetrous to didymous in 

 cross section. 

 Pods triquetrous in cross section, rarely reniform, 

 mostly narrow and curved, mostly reflexed. 



