372 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
It. Puasrotza.—Flowers papilionaceous, in racemes or fascicles, 
usually axillary or lateral. Stamens and fruit as in Viciee. Erect 
or twining herbs ; rarely arborescent plants. Leaves pinnate, rarely 
digitate, 3-foliolate, rarely 1-, 5-, or 7-foliolate, stipellate (45 genera). 
IIT. Gatzrczrz.—Herbs (not twining), trees, or shrubs (rarely 
climbing). Leaves pinnate, rarely 1-3-foliolate; leaflets usually 
entire; petiole not transformed into a tendril. Flowers in simple 
or compound racemes or solitary. Stamens 2-adelphous (9-1), all 
along, or only at the base, and L-adelphous above. Pod bivalved, 
or indehiscent and membranous or 1—2-seeded (55 genera). 
IV. Lotx#.—Herbaceous or suffrutescent plants. Leaves pinnate, 
with 3-o entire leaflets. Flowers solitary, or more frequently 
forming a sort of capitulum or umbel; peduncles axillary, or approxi- 
mated at the ends of the branches. Stamens 1- or 2-adelphous; 5 
usually having their filaments dilated above (8 genera). 
V. Trirot1za.—Herbaceous or rarely frutescent plants. Leaves 
pinnate, rarely digitate, 3-foliolate; leaflets often denticulate. 
Flowers solitary racemose or spicate; peduncles usually axillary. 
Stamens 1- or 2-adelphous (6 genera). 
VI. Hepysarza.—Characters of last four series; fruit possessing 
more or less distinct transverse articulations (49 genera). 
VII. Da.sireizz.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, rarely 
1-3-foliolate. Inflorescence variable. Stamens 1- or 2-adelphous. 
Fruit indehiscent, ay or partly fleshy, often few- or one-seeded 
(26 genera). 
VIII. Guimaras or shrubs, with simple or digitate 
leaves. Flowers in termizial or leaf-opposed racemes; rarely solitary 
or fascicled in the axils of the leaves. Stamens usually 1-adelphous 
(41 genera). 
IX. Popatyriz#.—Shrubs or rarely herbaceous plants. Leaves 
as in Genistee. Stamens free (26 genera). 
X. Sopnorr#.—Trees or shrubs, rarely subherbaceous plants. 
Flowers and free stamens of Podalyriee. Leaves usually pinnate 
(28 genera). 
XI. Tounatum.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate; leaflets o, 
rarely 1-3. Calyx closed valvate entire before anthesis. Stamens o, 
rarely subdefinite, free or nearly so (5 genera). 
Tn this group, taken as a whole, there is no character absolutely 
