Tribe 8. GALEGEAE 



By Per Axee Rydberg 



Herbs, shrubs, trees, or woody vines, only in Glycyrrhiza with glandular- 

 dotted foliage. Leaves odd-pinnate or abruptly pinnate, with or- without 

 stipels, very rarely with malpighiaceous hairs Calyx campanulate to tubular, 

 5-toothed or 5-lobed, or more or less 2-lipped. Corolla papilionaceous, with 5 

 petals, the keel-petals more or less adnate along the lower margin. .Stamens 10, 

 diadelphous or monadelphous, the connective of the anthers not produced nor 

 appendaged Ovary usually many-ovuled; style usually more or less curved or 

 bent upwards; stigma small Fruit usually several- or many-seeded (except in 

 Kenlrophyta), two-valved (but evidently indehiscent in Glycyrrhiza) . 



Seeds strophiolate; embryo with a straight radicle; flowers 1 or 2 

 in the axils of the leaves or in terminal racemes or panicles; 

 calyx subtended by a pair of deciduous bractlets; pods flat; 

 trees or shrubs. 



Seeds not strophiolate (rarely slightly so in species of Cracca) ; 

 embryo mostly with an incruved radicle; flowers mostly 

 racemose. 

 Bractlets 2 under the calyx; pods internally with more or less 

 distinct false cross-partitions. 

 Calyx tubular, with long lobes; petals long-clawed, their 

 blades cuneate at the base, that of the banner oblong, 

 not spreading; pods flat, many seeded, dehiscent; 

 shrubs with odd-pinnate leaves. 

 Calyx campanulate, with short tooth-like lobes; petals 

 short -clawed, at least the blades of the wings with 

 basal auricles, blade of the banner sub-orbicular or 

 broadly ovate; pods not flattened or if flat 2-seeded 

 (Glollidium) . 

 Exocarp of the pod not inflated; hypanthium obsolete, 

 not differentiated from the calyx; shrubs or trees, with 



Subtribe .V Brungniartianae. 



Subtribe 4. Barbierianae. 



abruptly pinnate leaves. Subtribe 5. Sesbanianae. 



Exocarp of the pod inflated, forming two elongate 

 bladders, one on each side of the pod; hypanthium 

 well developed and differentiated from the calyx, ob- 



conic; shrubs and trees, with odd-pinnate leaves. Subtribe 6. Dipiiysanae. 

 Bractlets tinder the calyx wanting; pods usually without 

 cross-partitions, except in Benlhamanlha, Sphincto- 

 spermum, and Hchcstigma. 

 Base of the pistil or of its stipe usually surrounded by a 

 more or less developed saucer-shaped disk within the 

 staminal sheath; racemes terminal, or terminal and 

 in the upper axils, or opposite the leaves, or if 

 axillary, the leaflets with parallel oblique lateral 

 veins. 

 Leaflets with parallel or indistinct lateral veins; pods 

 obliquely striate; leaves without stipels; herbs or 

 low shrubs. 

 Leaflets nctted-veined; pods not obliquely striate; 

 leaves mostly with stipels; trees or (ours) woody 

 vines. 

 Base of the pistil or its stipe without a disk; racemes 

 always axillary; leaflets not with parallel oblique 

 lateral veins. 

 Pods flat, or if terete with prominent sutures, neither 

 inflated nor with even a vestige of a longitu- 

 dinal partition. 

 Flowers in fascicles, on short branches arising in the 

 axils of fallen leaves; leaves abruptly pinnate; 

 banner usually enveloping the other petals. 



Volume 24, Part 3, 1923] 



Subtribe 1. Craccanae. 



Subtribe 2. Mii.i.ettianae. 



Subtribe 7. Cokvneixanae. 



