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Pueraria. Upper teeth, of calyx not projecting. Pod linear, fiattish, readily de- 

 hiscing, many-seeded. 



+ + Nodes of inflorescence not tumid. Stipules and bracts minute, 

 deciduous. 

 Teramntjs. Calyx-teeth free. Alternate anthers abortive. 



Glycine. Calyx-teeth free, the 2 upper ones more or less connate. Anthers all 

 fertile and conform. 



* * Leaflets more or less conspicuously resinose-dotted beneath. 



+ Ovules 3 or more. 



Dttnbaria. Pods plain or slightly turgid, often faleate, not depressed between the 

 obsoletely strophioled seeds. 



Attlosia. Pod transversely depressed or lined between the seeds. Arillus rather 

 large, grooved. 



Cajanus. Pod transversely depressed between the seeds. Arillus or strophiole 

 none. 



+ + Ovules 1 or 2. 



x Funicle arising from the centre of the hilum. 



Ctlista. Calyx accrescent and leafy, scarious-membranous, the lowermost lobe 

 largest. 



Ehynchosia. Calyx not accrescent in fruit. Pods compressed. Leaves pinnate- 

 ly 3-foliolate. 



Flemingia. Calyx not accrescent in fruit. Pod turgid. Leaves digitately 3= 

 foliolate. 



x x Funicle arising from the extremity of the linear hilum. 



Eriosema. Pod transversely depressed. Erect herbs with axillary flowers. 

 Leaves (in Ind. sp.) simple. 



Subtrib. 6. GEJYISTE2E. Stamens usually monadelphous, the filaments not di- 

 lated upwards ; anthers usually alternately longer and basifix or nearly so, the others 

 smaller and versatile. Leaves digitate. Pod often inflated. 



* Anthers dimorphous. Keel-petals firmly cohering. 



Crotalaria. Keel beaked. Pod turgid or inflated. Flowers in terminal or 

 leaf-opposite racemes. Herbs or undershrubs with simple or digitately 3 — 7-foliolate 

 leaves. 



Priotropis. As preceding, but pods much compressed. Leaves digitately 3- 

 foliolate. 



* * Anthers uniform. Keel-petal hardly cohering. 

 Pothia. Anthers small. Pods follicle-like dehiscing. Herbs. 



Subtrib. 7. LOTEM. Stamens usually diadelphous (9 + 1), the filaments dilated 

 upwards. Leaves digitately or pinnately compound. 



* Leaflets quite entire (Lotese). 



Lotus. Petals adnate to the staminal tube. Keel beaked. Pod 2-valved. 

 Leaves pinnately 5 -foliolate. 



Parochetus. Petals deciduous, free from the staminal tube, the keel rather acute. 

 Pod 2-valved. Flowers solitary or in poor umbels. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate. 



* * Veins of leaflets usually produced into marginal toothlets. Leaves pinnately 

 3-foliolate. Keel-petal blunt. 



x Pod spirally falcate or circinate. 

 Medicago. 



x x Pod straight or nearly so. 



