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Tbibe VI. Hedysabes, Herbs, undershrubs or glu-ubs fiometimes 
twining or climbing, laix'ly trees. Leaves odd- or i-ai-ely even-pinnate, 
)>etiolc if produced not cirrlmte, leaflets 3-oo , miely digitately 3—4- 
foliolate, 1-foliolate or eimple. Stawefis diatlelplious, 9 connate iti a 
slieatli as high as their middle or liiglier and split along the upper side, 
the upper being free, or monadelphona in a sheath split along the upper 
side, or diadelphous in two equal lateral half-sheaths (split simultfineously 
alojig Gpper and lower sides) or rarely nil free ; hhiments free at their 
tips, filiform or dilated upwards; anthers unifoi-m versatile, or rarely 
2-HKirphoiis, the alternate larger subbasifixed. Pod indehiscent separa- 
ting into 1-seeded aegmeiits, rarelj'' unsegmented (Arachis)^ or by abor- 
tion or organically {Phyhiciuin) 1 -seeded. Seeds mvely strophiolate. 
Stamens iiionftdelphous, arithoTS E-morptiona i leaflets eyen- 
plnriaLo or digitftto, eisUpeUate ... ... ... A. Stylmanth^. 
Stuiiitiiis liiadelplioua, autliorB uniftjrm ; leaflets odd>pitiaate 
or simple. 
Leaflets eiatipellate, Btaminal ptialungea 5+5 ... B. Aenchynomenese. 
LeafietB atipellate, fltammiil pbaUnj^ea D-ii- 1 ... C. Desmodiea, 
Suh-tribe A. Sf'Jjtosa7ithe^, Herbaceous approaching aiiderahrubs, 
often viscid; leaves exstipellate, leaflets few ; flowei^ epicate, capifcjite 
or rarely subracemose, in terminal spikes, or axillary by suppression of 
floral branches ; bracts l-foliolate and 2-stipulate, or etipaloid from 
snppression of the leaf-element; stamen^ monadelphous ; anthers 5 
oblong Ijftsifixed, 5 alternate shorter versatile, 
^2, Arachis. Calyit-hibe long jUiform ; leaiies even-pinnate; pod 
not segmented ripening underground. 
33. Zornia, Calyx-tuhe fioi elongated ; learns digitately 2-A-f olio- 
late 
Snh-irihe B. Aeschynommem. Herbs, undershriibs or shrabs ; leaves 
pinnate, leaflets oo , or rarely 1-3, exatipellate ; flowers uanally in few- 
fid, axillary racemes, rarely in axillary fascicles or Bubcymose ; keel 
obtuse ,or beaked^ incurved ; wings usually transversely folded ; ^id,- 
niGnB {in Malayan genera) coniiafce in two lateral phalanges; stylo 
filiform. 
.34. Smithia, Pod folded within calyx. 
35. Ormocarpum. Pod straiyht escserted, joxnt^ ohlong ; ovary 
sessile, 
36. Aeschynoraene. Pod Jitraight exserted, johtis quadrate or sub- 
orhiculnr ; ovary sii}ntate. 
Siih-trihe 0. Des^nodiew, Herbs, rarely twining^ or nndenehruhs, leas 
often shrubs, very rarely trees; leaves pinnately 3-folioInte or 1-folio- 
late the distal leaflets 2-stipellate the lateral lenflets opposite, each 1- 
stipellatc, raiely 5-7-foliolate ; stipules often striate ; flowers in pairs 
