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Calyx deeply 2-lipped ; ovary stalked, ovules 



many ; joints of pod suborbicular or quadrate... 36. Aeschynomene. 

 Leaves stipellate ; (stamens 9+1, anthers uniform) : — 



Ovary 1-ovuled ; (leaves pinnately 3-foliolate) ... 37. Phylacium. 

 Ovary 2- or more-ovuled : — 



Pod folded together within the calyx : — 



Calyx-teeth setaceous, not accrescent ... 38. Uraria. 



Calyx-teeth lanceolate, accrescent ... ... 39. Lourea. 



Pod straight exserted : — 



Joints of pod coriaceous about as thick as they 



are broad and long ... ... ... 40. Alysicarpus. 



Joints of pod thin, or if coriaceous (§ Dendrolo- 

 bium) much broader than thick, and if as thick as 

 broad (§ Scorpiurus) much longer than broad ; 

 opening along lower suture in § Nicholsonia and 

 in § Pleurolobium ... ... ... 41. Desmodium. 



Stamens free : — 



Stigma terminal, pod long moniliform ... ... 42. Sophora. 



Stigma oblique, pod short turgid ... ... ... 43. Ormosia. 



1. Abrus Linn. 

 Climbing shrubs. Leaves with numerous deciduous leaflets. Flowers 

 small, in dense racemes on axillary peduncles or short branches. Calyx 

 campanulate, equal ; teeth very short. Corolla much exserted ; standard 

 ovate, acute, adhering below to the staminal tube ; wings narrow ; keel 

 arcuate. Stamens 9, united in a tube slit above, the tenth absent ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled ; style short, incurved, 

 beardless, stigma capitate. Pod oblong or linear-oblong, flat or turgid, 

 moderately firm, thinly septate. Species 5 ; cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



Pod oblong turgid 3-5-seeded ... ... ... 1. A. precatorius. 



Pod linear flat incurved 8-12-seeded ... ... 2. A. pulchellus. 



1. Abrus precatorius Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. XII, 472. A copiously 

 branched climber with thin stems and slender glabrous or thinly silky 

 branches. Leaves 2-3 in. long; leaflets equally pinnate in JO-20 

 opposite pairs membranous glabrous above thinly silky beneath, green 

 deciduous, lignlate-oblong -35-'65 in. long, *15--2 in. wide. Racemes 

 many-flowered, crowded, usually shorter than the leaves, rachis usually 

 distinctly thickened in fruit. Calyx 1 in. thinly silky. Corolla *5 in. 

 pink, or white with pink tinge. Pod oblong, turgid, 1-1'5 in. long, 

 •4-5 in. wide, valves rugose thickened, 3-5-seeded. Seeds various, 

 usually bright scarlet with black hilum in wild specimens ,• sometimes 

 white with black hilum, uniformly white, or uniformly black in culti- 

 vated forms. DO. Prodr. II, 381; Roxb. Flor. Ind. 111,258; Wall. 

 Cat., 5818 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 158 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 

 175. A minor Desv. Ann. Sc. Nat. IX, 418. A. paucijlorus Desv. Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. IX, 418. 



