430 : BENGAL PLANTS. 
pinnate, rarely simple or 1-foliolate, very rarely digitately 3-folio- 
late, sometimes pinnately 8-foliolate; leaflets usually opposite — 
except the terminal, occasionally alternate ; stipules usually small, 
shortly adnate ; stipels setaceous or 0. Flowers usually reddish 
or purple, in axillary spikes or racemes, solitary sessile or pedi- — 
celled in the axils of caducous bracts; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, 
connate in a minute campanulate calyx; teeth subequal, or the 
lowest eee Petals caducous; standard ovate or orbicular, 
sessile or clawed; wings oblong, slightly adnate to the e 
laterally gibbous or spurred keel. Stamens 10; vexillary filament 
free, the others connate; anthers uniform, connective gland-like, 4 
apiculate. Ovary sessile or clauckila: 1-2 or many-ovuled; style . 
beardless, but the capitate ea wags penicillate. Fruita globose, 
1-seeded, or oblong or linear, straight or curved, 3-4-angled or 
compressed astevidnetiod Sd, en within. Seeds globose, or 
cylindric and truncate, or compressed or quadrate ; strophiole 0. 
Leaves simple :— 
Pods 1-seeded :— 
Pods recurved, sickle-shaped, muricated along the ventral meee 
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Pods globose, unarmed, minute’ : soveesnslinifolia. 
Pods 2-seeded wave cordifolia, 
Leaves compound, odd-pinnate or digitate :— 
Leaflets 3—one terminal and a lateral pair :— peo 
Leaves digitately 3-foliolate—end leaflet sessile ......++...++ trifoliata | 
Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate—end leaflet stalked :— ’ 
s short, 1-2-seeded; flowers in dense sessile heads; leaflets 
oblanceolate, thinly pubescent ; a herb...........++++00++* see 
Pods elongated, 4-angled, 6-10-seeded ; flowers in racem 
lin. long; leafiets obovate, grey-silky ; a woody aati aria 
Leaflets 5 or more :— 
Leaflets rege aay leaves sessile or nearly so 
Leaflets silvery-hoary, 7-9; pods 2-seeded ; flowers 1% 5 in dee 
sessile heads... .......s060.86..) C ccc ak ane enneap oo 
Leaflets nate! adpressed-hirsute, 5-9; p ight, 
ods 8 Ila 
ded ; flowers in close racemes, 1-4 in. long........+ endecaphy 
tipped hairs ; racemes laxly 6-12-flowered ; leaflets 7-9 oblancee : 
late ; pods faintly torulose, straight, 10-12-seeded ; a diffuse - 
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