104. ». LEOUMINOSAE. 



17. Keel beaked. Lower two leaflets like stipules. 13 LOTUS. 



Keel blunt or slightly pointed. 18. 



18. Herbs. Petals adnate to the staminal tube. 12 TRIFOL1UM. 



Shrubs. Stem woody. 17 MUNDULEA. 



19. Herbs with equally pinnate leaves, the common petiole pro- 



duced into a bristle or tendril (introduced). 20. 



Petiole not produced. 2l. 



20. Stamens 9. 32 ABRUS. 



Stamens 10. 31 VICIA. 



21. Fruit ripening underground (cultivated plants). 22. 

 Fruit not ripening underground. 23. 



22. Filaments all united (monkey nut). 25 ARACHIS. 

 One stamen free. 40 VOANDZEIA. 



23. Leaves simple, unifoliolate or wanting. 24. 

 Leaves compound. 34 



24. Anthers of 2 kinds, S basifixed, 5 versatile (or 5 rudimentary).. 



2S. 

 Anthers uniform. 29. 



25. Leaves stipulate. Style bearded on inside near apex. 



9 CROTALARIA.. 

 Leaves exstipulate. Style not bearded. 26. 



26. Calyx lobes distinctly unequal. 2 upper broadest. 27. 



Calyx lobes more or less equal. 28. 



27. Leaves scattered, flat. 2 RAFNIA. 

 Leaves fascicled, linear. S ASPALATHUS. 



28. Leaves sessile, fascicled. 5 ASPALATHUS. 

 Leaves more or less stalked, not fascicled. 4 LEBECKIA. 



29. Uppermost stamen united with the others in the middle, at 



least when young, free at the base. _ 30. 



Uppermost stamen free throughout. 31. 



30. Fruit jointed. Upper calyx lobes more or less united. 

 Leaflets usually with stipels. 28 DESMODIUM. 

 Fruit not jointed. Stigma usually hairy. Leaflets usually 



with parallel side nerves and no stipels. 16 TEPHROSIA. 



31. Ovules 3 or more. Fruit jointed. 30 ALYSICARPUS. 

 Ovules 2. Fruit not jointed. 32. 



32. Fruit turgid. 44 FLEMINGIA. 

 Fruit compressed. 33. 



33. Upper calyx lobes separate or shortly united. Seeds oblong 



without an outgrowth at hilum. Seedcord excentral. 

 Ovary usually very hairy. 43 ERIOSEMA. 



Upper calyx lobes more or less united. Seeds orbicular or 

 reniform with an outgrowth at the hilum. Seed cord 

 central. Ovary glabrous or pubescent. 



42 RHYNCHOSIA. 



34. Anthers of 2 kinds, 5 basifixed, 5 versatile (or 5 rudimentary) 



35. 



