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fascicled in the axils of the leaves. The flowers have muticous 
anthers, usually indefinite ovules and an often rigid style. The 
Indigofera tinctoria (Indigo-plant). 
Fie. 160. 
Habit (3). 
pod opens in two valves. The subseries consists of erect or 
climbing trees, or more rarely of trees; it includes eleven genera ; 
Galega, Ptychosema, Barbieria, Peteria, Sylitra, Tephrosia, Mundulea, 
Chadsia, Milletia, Sarcodum, and Wistaria. 
The Robinias (fig. 159), vulgarly termed False-Acacias (Fauz- 
Acacias) have been made the types of a second subseries Robiniee, 
which is quite artificial, presenting all the general characters of the 
preceding but with the inflorescences all axillary, or fascicled on 
the wood of the old branches. It contains fifteen genera: Rodinia, 
Gliricidia, Diphysa, Sabinea, Corynella, Poitea, Vilmorinia, Lennea, 
Olneya, Coursetia, Poissonia' (Bn.), Cracca, Sesbania, Microcharis, Car- 
michela, and Notospartium. 
1 Given only in the addenda in the French edition. 
