1897.] G. King ^Maieriah for a Flora of tJie Malayatr Peninsula. 31 
Srs-OKD^B I. PAFTLTOTfACS^. 
Herbs or shrubs (often climbing), rarely ti-ees. Leaves simple or 
di^itatel J or pinTiatcly compound ; usually stipellate mroly even-piiiTiate. 
Injlnrescence Tarious, often racemose. Flowers irreg^ular, usually her- 
maphrodite^ rarely regular. Sepah 5, united beyond the disc in a 
campanulate ot- tubular calyx with a truncafce^ 5- toothed or 5-Iobed 
limb, or with limb 4-tootIied by union of the two upper segments or 
2-lipped by simiiar union of tliree lower. Petals 5 imbricate or rarely 
spreading, the upper (standard) onterj two lateml (mngs) usually over- 
lying and free from or attached about the middle to tlie two lower 
inner rarely free usually connate below in a curved sheath {keel} ; petals 
rarely subsirailar and subequal. Stamens inserted with the petals on a 
disc lininff the base of the calys^ usually 10 diadclpbons in a sheath 
of 9 connate next keel with 1 free nest standand, rarely in 2 lateral 
sheaths of 5 each ; sometimes 9 by abortion of upper filament, or 5 by 
abortion of alternate stamens; occasionally 10, monadelphous, very 
rarely 10, free ; anthers usually dehiacinj* loug^itudinally. Emhnjo witli 
radicle usually inflfixed, acoumbent. Alhume^t 0 or very scanty. 
StameTia mon- or di-atlelphons : — 
Pods dehiscent by both sutures : — 
Leaves eron -pinna fee fcho petiole ending in a bristle j 
fltametia 9, ih& tenth abortive ,„ ... ... 1. Asavs. 
Leaves odd-pmnate or sinipTo, or digitatelj 3< or more- 
foliolate ; — 
LeftVBB aimple ordigitatQly componnd; (pods tuiTfid) : — 
LeaveB siimiplei, s^ssil^, or dig'itately 3-7*foliol&te; sta* 
mens moniidelphoaB ; seed a many ... ... 2, Crotalaiua. 
Leaves digitatety S-foliolate orpf l-folioUte, petioled ; 
Btanaens diadelphons ; ae^ds 2 ... „, 3. Fleming u, 
LeAves pinnately cotnpoiind : — 
Leaves 3-foliolate (5-7-faliolate in one species of 
CUtoria) (PHkntoi.'&x except Ffemintfia) ; — 
Pods dehiflcent from end to oad : — 
Leaves glandular beneath ; fpod oompressed j 
atamens 9 + 1) ( Cnjanete except Flevtingia) -. — 
Ovnles 2 ; tlie2 npper ealyi-lobea almost free ; 
(stif^ma amall terminal ; need not strophiolate,) 
fnnicle attached to end of hilum ... .„ 4. Erioskma. 
Ovnlea 4 or more j the 2 upper calyx-lobes 
mucli connate ; funiole centric : ■ — ■ 
Climbers ; stigma smnll terminal ; aeeda 
Btrophiolate or snb*etrophiolato ; — 
Pod linear aonmiuats, hardly depressed 
between the seeds ; funiolo expanded but 
seeds not distinctly atrophiolate ... 5. DrxBARtA 
