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Standard orbicular or reniform, large. Ovules 4 or more (except in a few 

 Mirbelias). 



Calyx-lobes shorter or scarcely longer than the tube. Leaves simple 



or none. — 14. Mirbelia. 

 Calyx-lobes much longerthan the tube. — 15. Isotropis. 

 Standard orbicular or reniform, large. Ovules 2 (4 to 6 in Jacksonia 

 piptomeris). 



Calyx-lobes much longer than the tube, valvate. 



Funicles long and thick, one folded or curved upwards, the other 

 downwards. Pod globular or nearly so. Leaves pinnate, 

 digitately 3 to 5-foliolate or simple. — 16. Burtonia. 

 Funicles short and slender. Pod flattened or oblong. Leaves 

 none or very rarely 1-foliolate. — 17. Jacksonia. 

 Calyx-lobes shorter than the tube, or, if longer, imbricate or opening 

 in the bud. 



Pod triangular, 2-valved. Seeds strophiolate. Calyx shortly 

 5-toothed. Leaves simple, alternate, or none. — 18. 

 Daviesia. 



Pod ovate or oblong, 2-valved. Calyx 5-lobed or toothed 

 or 2-lipped. Leaves simple, sessile or shortly petiolate. — 

 19. Gastrolobium. 



Tribe II. Genistece. — Shrubs or herbs, very rarely small trees. Leaves 

 simple or with 1 or 3 or more digitate leaflets. Stamens all united in a sheath 

 open on the upper side in all the Austrahan genera (except in one species of 

 Hovea). 



Leaves all simple or none. Flowers axillary,, solitary or clustered. Seeds 

 strophiolate. 



Anthers uniform. Pod very flat. — ^20. Bossiaea. 

 Anthers alternately longer and shorter. Leaves alternate or none. 

 Pod at least twice as long as broad, with coriaceous convex 

 valves. Flowers red, yellow, or reddish -purple. — ^21. 

 Templetonia. 

 Pod turgid, scarcely longer than broad. Flowers blue or bluish- 

 purple. — 22. Hovea. 

 Leaves digitate or simple. Flowers or racemes terminal or leaf-opposed. 

 Seeds not strophiolate. 



Anthers alternately longer and shorter. Style (often very minutely) 



bearded under the stigma. — ^24. Crotalaria. 

 Anthers uniform. Style beardless. Pod hnear, follicular. Flowers 

 minute, solitary or in short racemes. — 23. Rothia. 



Tribe III. Euloteoe. — Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves pinnate, leaflets 

 entire. Flowers capitate or umbellate on axillary ped-uncles. Upper stamen 

 usually free, at least at the base, the others united in a sheath ; filaments 

 either all or 5 only dilated towards the end. Pod not articulate. — 25. Lotus. 



Tribe IV. GalegecB. — Herbs not twining, shrubs, or rarely trees or tall 

 woody chmbers. Leaves pinnate, rarely reduced to 3 or 1 leaflets. StipeUse 

 none, or setaceous in a few pinnate genera. Upper stamen usually free, at 

 least at the base, the others united in a sheath, very rarely all united ; filaments 

 filiform. Ovules 2 or more (except in Indigofera linifoha and in Psoralea). 

 Pod not articulate, 2-valved (except Psoralea). 



Ovule 1. Fruit small, the pericarp adhering to the seed. Herbs or 

 shrubs with black glandular dots. Leaflets (in Austraha) 1 or 3, sometimes 

 toothed. — ^27. Psoralea. 



