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Inflorescenoes in axillary or terminal racemes or panicles ; 

 leaves scattered along the branches : — 



Standard not auricledat the base of the lamina (§ Eumil' 

 lettia), or auricles only represented by callosities : — 



Leaves lustrous beneath with thin lepidote silky pubescence ; 

 (pods turgid silky ; leaves exstipellate^ 

 Leaves opaque beneath, glabrous when mature, or silky 

 only on the nerves beneath (M. Hemsleyana) ; (pods 

 woody) : — 



Pods targid rugose; leaves rigidly coriaceous ; racemes 

 densely thyrsoid ; flowers dark-red or purple : (leaves 

 without sfcipels) : — 



Bracts large suborbicular, young racemes strobilate ; 

 standard silky externally ; pods pubescent 

 Bracts small ovate early deciduous ; standard glab- 

 rous externally ; pods glabrous 

 Pods flat smooth (lenticelled in M. glaucescens) ; 

 leaves membranous (subcoriaceous in M. coerulea) ; 

 racemes htx ; flowers white, pink or blue : — 

 Leaflets without stipels, membranous ; racemes 

 distinctly peduncled ; pods glabrous (standard 

 2-callose) : — 



Standard glabrous externally : — 



Pods lenticelled, the sutures slightly winged ; 

 leaflets subglaucous quite glabrous beneath ... 

 Pods not lenticelled the sutures thickened 

 but not winged ; leaflets pubescent on midrib 

 and nerves beneath ... 

 Standard silky externally ; (pods not lenticelled, 

 sutures not winged ; leaflets glabrous beneath) . 

 Leaflets stipellate, subcoriaceous; racemes very 

 close and short peduucled ; pods pubescent exter- 

 nally ; (leaves glabrous beneath ; flowers blue) 

 Standard auricled at base of lamina (§ Otosema) ; (leaves 

 subcoriaceous opaque beneath, pods pubescent) : — 



Pods very wide turgid ; leaflets small many obtuse ; 

 flowers pink, or white with pink tinge ; panicles wide 

 short : — 



Leaflets densely velvety beneath ; pod obpyriform, 

 longitudinally channelled, pubescence short, pale- 

 purple brown ... 



Leaflets glabrescent beneath ; pod oval, not chanel- 

 led, pubescence long, dark-brown 

 Pods flat ; leaflets large few caudate-acuminate ; 

 flowers pure white : — 



Leaflets 5-7, rarely 3 ; pods soft brown- velvety ... 

 Leaflets solitary ; pods pale yellowish-velvety 

 Flowers solitary along leafless stem on conical processes in 

 axils of leaf -scars ; leaves tufted at top of slender stems 



1. M. sericea. 



M. eriantha. 



M. atropurpurea. 



4. M. glaucescens. 



5. M. Hemsleyana. 



6. M. decipiens. 



7. M. coerulea. 



8. 



M. Maingayi. 



9. 



M, oocarpa. 



10. 



M. albiflora. 



11. 



M. unifoliata. 



12. 



M. cauliflora. 



