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X.LIII. LEGUMINOS^. 
Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or 1-foliolate, with stipellse as in Phaseolea. 
Stipules usually dry. 
Pod flat, not folded 44. Desmodium. 
Pod turgid, not articulate, but with transverse lines 45. Pycnospora. 
Pod-articles folded over each other within the calyx. Calyx-tube small, 
lobes subulate 46. Uraria. 
Pod-articles globular, oblong-terete, or slightly flattened but thick. Calyx 
narrow, dry, deeply lobed. Leaves 1-foliolate 47. Alysicarpus. 
Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, rarely 1-foliolate, without stipell®. Ovule 1. 
Pod 1-seeded, flat, indehiscent 48. Lespedeza. 
Tkire VII. Vicieae. — Herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, the common petiole usually ending 
in a tendril or fine point. Flowers and fruit of Phaseoleee. Peduncles or racemes axillary. 
Style with a tuft of hairs at the top on the outside or all round (not bearded 
longitudinally inside) ■. . 49. *Vicia. 
Twiners. Leaves abruptly pinnate with small leaflets. Upper stamen 
wanting, the other 9 united in a sheath open on the upper side . . . 50. Abhus. 
Tribe VIII. Phaseoleas. — Herbs usually twining or prostrate, rarely erect or shrubby at 
the base, very rarely trees. Leaves pinnately H-foliolate or 1-foliolate, rarely 5 or 1-foliolate, with 
stipellee (digitate in Flemingia and a very few species of other genera, stipellce minute or none in 
Rhynchosia and its allies). Upper stamen usually free, at least at the base or all but the base. 
Anthers uniform or nearly so ( except in Mucuna). Pod not articulate, 2-valved. Cotyledons 
usually thick and fleshy. 
Flowers in axillary short clusters with persistent striate bracts and 
bracteoles. Seeds not strophiolate. 
Calyx tubular 51. Clitoria. 
Calyx campanulate 62. Dolichos. 
Flowers pedunculate, umbellate, or racemose, the rhachis not nodose. 
Bracts persistent or deciduous. Seeds strophiolate. 
Flowers red, in 1 or 2 pairs or in umbels or in short racemes .... 54. Kennedya. 
Flowers small, blue or purple, in loose racemes. Keel usually small . 53. Hardenbergia. 
Flowers small, single, scattered in a loose raceme, the rhachis not nodose. 
Bracts small, deciduous. (Lower flowers often solitary in the axils.) 
Seeds not strophiolate 52. Glycine. 
Trees or tall erect herbs with conical prickles. Flowers large, red. Wings 
very short 55. Erythrina. 
Twiners, habit of Phaseolus. Flowers red. Standard and keel equal. 
Wings short 56. Strongylodon. 
Anthers alternately long and short. Flowers large, purple, yellow, or 
white. Standard short. Keel acuminate 57. Mucuna. 
Twining or erect at the base, not glandular. Flowers in pairs or clusters 
along or at the top of a common peduncle, the rhachis of the cluster 
gland-like or forming a protruding node. Bracts deciduous or none. 
Anthers uniform. 
Style beardless. 
Calyx-lobes 4 (the upper one of 2 united), acuminate 58. Galactia. 
Calyx 2 upper lobes united in a large upper lip, the 3 lower minute . 59. Canavalia. 
Style bearded under the stigma. 
Stigma oblique or lateral. 
Keel spirally twisted 60. Phaseolus. 
Keel straight, or with a curved beak not forming a complete spire . 61. Viona. 
Stigma small, terminal 62. Dolichos. 
Twining or erect. Flowers racemose, umbellate, or solitary, the rhachis 
not nodose. Bracts usually membranous and deciduous. Stipellee 
usually minute or none. Style beardless. Upper stamen free. 
Ovules 4 or more. 
Pod very flat, obliquely acuminate 63. Dunbaria. 
Pod flattened, very obtuse, with transverse lines or depressions between 
the seeds 64. Atylosia. 
Ovules 2 or rarely 1. 
Pod flattened. Hilum of the seed parallel to the suture with a central 
funicle 65. Rhynchosia. 
Pod flattened. Seed obliquely transverse, the funicle attached to one 
end of the hilum. Standard usually very silky 66. Eriosema. 
Pod turgid. Leaflets digitate 67. Flemingia. 
Tribe IX. — Dalbergiea. — Trees or woody climbers. Leaves pinnate with 5 or more 
leaflets or sometimes 1 leaflet, very rarely 3. Stipellee none or small and subulate. Stamens all 
united in a sheath or tube, or into two parcels of 5, very rarely the upper one free. Pod indehiscent. 
