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leaves and small flowers in pedunculate dense terminal spilies or 

 heads; petals 5, on filiform claws that are united to the stamen-tube 

 the upper one free, all deciduous: stamens 5, mouadelphous: ovary 

 with two collateral ovules: pods 1-seeded. 



Tribe vi. Astragaleje. Erect or decumbent herbaceous, rare- 

 ly stiffrutescent, plants with unequally pinnate leaves and axil- 

 lary or radical, racemose or spicate inflorescence. Stamens diadel- 

 phous (9 and 1). Pods 1 -celled or often spuriously 2-celled by 

 the introflexion of one or both sutures, dehiscent, several-seeded 

 or rarely l-'2-seeded. Radicle incurved. 



11.- A.stragaluB. Unarmed herbs with unequally pinnate leaves without 

 tendrils and axillary spilies or racemes of comparatively small flow- 

 ers: herbage neither glandular nor dotted: pods various, often 

 coriaceous and turgid, , or thin and bladderly-inflated, or thin and 

 flat, more or less 2-celled by the intrusion of the dorsal suture: keel 

 obtuse. 



12. Ozytropis. Unarmed herbs or sometimes sufiruticose plants, with 

 unequally pinnate leaves: the flowers spicate on axillary or radi- 

 cal peduncles: pods partly 2-celled by the introflexion of the pla- 

 cental suture: keel with a subulate point. 



13. Glycyrriiza. Glandular-vlscid perennials with unequally pinnate 

 leaves and flowers in peduncled axillary spikes: pods short, com- 

 pressed, prickly, indehiscent, few-seeded. 



Tribe vii., Hedysa-re^. Herbs or shrubs with pinnate or 

 simple leaves, the flowers in axillary or terminal spikes, racemes 

 or umbels. Stamens 10, mouadelphous or diadelphous. Pods 

 usually transversely divided Into l-seeded indehiscent joints. 



14. Hedysarum. Herbs with unequally pinnate leaves, the flowers in 

 axillary or terminal racemes: keel obliquely truncate, longer than 

 the wings: stamens diadelphous: pods of several 1-seeded ioints 

 connected by their middle. 



Tribe viii. Vicie^. Herbs with abruptly pinnate leaves, the 

 common petiole not articulated with the stem, produced at the 

 apex into a bristle or tendril, the flowers in axillary racemes. 

 Stamens 10, diadelphous. Pods not jointed, dehiscent. Cotyle- 

 dons remaining under ground and unchanged in germination 

 Radicle inflexed. 



15. Vicia. Weak herbs with stems climbing by tendrils which termin- 

 ate the pinnate leaves, and 1— several-flowered axillary peduncles 

 Style bent upward at the apex and villous under the stigma on tlip 

 under or outer side. . , ° 



IG. tathyrus. Herbs clinging by tendrils which terminate the pinnate 

 leaves and few-several-flowered axillary peduncles: stvle bent at 

 nght angles to the ovary and villous in a line on tlie inside. 



Tribe 1 Podalyriew Benth. B. & H. Gen.i,4S7. .Mostly herbf< 

 with simple or digitately trifolinlate, rarely many-foliolate, leaves 

 and papilionaceous flowers. Stamens 10, free, or slightly united at 

 base. Pod dehiscent. Radicle incurved or inflexed. 



1 THERMOI*SIS R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. e. 2, iil, 3. 



Stout perennial herbs with erect -stems, digitately trifoliolate 



