96 PULSE FAMILY. 



M. ++ Pod indehiscent, very thick, 1 - 3-seeded. Calyx ueith a long, thread-shaped 

 or stalk-like tube. Leaves abruptly pinnate : stipules united with the petiolr, 

 at base. 



80. ARACHIS. Annual. Leaflets 4, straight-veined. Flowers small, yellow, in 

 axillary heads or spikes. Calyx with one narrow lobe making a lower lip, 

 the np'per lip broad and 4-toothed. Keel incurved and pointed. Stamens 

 monadelphous, 5 anthers longer and fixed by near their base, the alternate 

 ones short and fixed by their middle. Ovary at the bottom of the very lr>rg 

 and stalk-like tube of the calyx, containing 2 or 3 ovules : when the long style 

 and the calyx with the rest of the flower falls away, the forming pod is pro- 

 truded on a rigid deflexed stalk which then appears, and is pushed into the 

 soil where it ripens into the oblong, reticulated, thick, coriaceous fruit, which 

 contains the 1-3 large and edible seeds; the embryo composed of a pair 

 of very thick and fleshy cotyledons and an extremely short nearly straight 

 radicle. 



++++++ Pod continuous, i. e. not in joints, at length opening, 2 - several-seeded. 

 a* Leaves abruptly pinnate : plants not twining. ( Flowers in ours yellow. ) 



tl. SESB ANIA. Herbs, with many pairs of leaflets, and minute or early deciduous 

 stipules. Flowers in axillary racemes, or sometimes solitary. Calyx short, 

 5-toothed. Standard rounded, spreading: keel and style incurved. Pod usu- 

 ally intercepted internally with cellular matter or membrane between the 

 seeds. 



92. CAR AGANA. Shrubs, with mostly fascicled leaves of several pairs of leaflets, 

 and a little spiny tip in place of an end leaflet: stipules minute or spiny. 

 Flowers solitary or 2 - 3 together on short peduncles. Calyx bell-shaped or 

 short-tubular, 5-toothed. Standard nearly erect with the sides turned back: 

 the blunt keel and the style nearly straight Pod linear, several-seeded. 



b. Leaves odd-pinnate : stems not twining. 

 1. Anthers tipped vnth a tittle aland or blunt point. 



23. IND1GOFERA. Herbs, or sometimes shrubby, when pubescent the close- 

 pressed hairs are fixed by the middle. Flowers rose-color, purple, or white, 

 in axillarv racemes or spikes, mostly small. Calyx 5-cleft. Standard round- 

 ish, oftn"persistent after the rest of the petals have fallen: keel with a pro- 

 jection or spur on each side. Pod oblong, linear, or of various shapes, com- 

 monly with membranous partitions between the seeds. 



2. Anthers blunt and pointless. 



84. TEPHROSIA. Herbs, with obliquely parallel-veined leaflets often silky to- 

 neath, and white or purple flowers (2 or more in a cluster) in racemes; the 

 peduncles terminal or opposite the leaves Calyx 5-cleft or 5-toothed. Stand- 

 ard rounded, silky outside. Style incurved, rigid: stigma with a tuft of 

 hairs. Pod linear, flat, several-seeded. 



25. ROBINI A. Trees or shrubs, with rietted-veined leaflets furnished with stipels, 

 and often with sharp spines or prickles for stipules. Flowers large and 

 showy, white or rose-color, in axillary racemes. Base of the leafstalk hollow 

 and covering the axillary bud of the next year. Calyx 5-toothed, the two 

 upper teeth partly united. Standard large, turned back : keel incurved, 

 blunt. Ovary stalked in the calyx. Pod broadly linear, flat, several-seeded, 

 margined on the seed-bearing edge, the valves thin. 



86. COLUTEA. Shrubs, not prickly, and no stipels to the leaflets: the flowers 

 rather large, yellow or reddish, 'in short axillary racemes. Calyx 5-toothed. 

 Standard rounded, spreading: keel strongly incurved, blunt, on long united 

 claws. Style incurved, bearded down one side. Pod raised out of the calyx 

 on a stalk 'of its own, thin and bladdery-inflated, flattish on the seed-bearing 

 side, several-seeded. 



27- ASTRAGALUS. Herbs, without stipels, and with white, purple, or yellowish 

 rather small flowers in spikes, heads, or racemes : peduncles axillary. Co- 

 rolla narrow: standard erect, mostly oblong. Style and stigma smooth and 

 beardless. Pod commonly turgid or inflated and "within more or less divided 

 lengthwise by intrusion of the back or a false partition from it. 



(SWAINSONA, SUTHEKLANDIA, and CbiANTHUS, plants from Australia, 

 New Zealand, and South Africa, with showy flowers and bladdery-inflated 

 pods (like Colutea), are sometimes cult, in conservatories, but are not com- 

 mon enough to find a place here.) 



