Petals short-or not clawed, white, yellow or violet. Ovary more or less distinctly stalked. Fruit tardily or not dehiscing. 120 120. Fruit compressed, winged at the upper suture, membranous. Calyx-lobes unequal. Petals yellow; those of the keel curved. Flowers in racemes. Bracteoles none.--Species 9. South and Central Africa. =Calpurnia= E. Mey. Fruit terete or nearly so, constricted between the seeds, 4-winged or wingless, leathery, woody or fleshy.--Species 6. Tropical and South-east Africa. They yield timber, dye-stuffs, and medicaments, and are also used as ornamental plants. =Sophora= L. 121. Standard broad-oblong or narrow-ovate, clawed and auricled. Calyx very shortly toothed. Filaments slightly united at the base, excepting one. Ovary long-stalked, hairy. Style very short, almost straight. Ovules numerous. Trees. Flowers in panicles.--Species 1. Madagascar. (Under _Cadia_ Forsk.) =Pseudocadia= Harms Standard broad-ovate or orbicular. Ovary short-stalked or almost sessile. 122 122. Calyx shortly toothed or entire. Stigma terminal. Fruit almost terete, constricted between the seeds. 123 Calyx deeply cleft. Fruit flat. 124 123. Stalk of the ovary obliquely adnate to the curved receptacle (calyx-tube). Standard suborbicular, slightly exceeding the other petals. Filaments free. Flowers in racemes arising from the old wood.--Species 5. Central Africa. =Angylocalyx= Taub. Stalk of the ovary not adnate to the receptacle. Style curved at the apex. Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles. (See 120.) =Sophora= L. 124. Ovule 1. Stigma terminal. Flowers in racemes. Leaflets 5-7.--Species 1. East Africa. =Platycelephium= Harms Ovules 2 or more. Leaflets 7-13. 125 125. Stigma terminal. Corolla blue. Flowers in racemes. Leaflets curved and pointed.--Species 1. South Africa. =Bolusanthus= Harms Stigma lateral. Corolla red or green. Flowers in panicles.--Species 2. West Africa. They yield timber. =Afrormosia= Harms 126. (104.) Filaments all, or the alternate ones, broadened at the apex. [Especially tribe LOTEAE.] 127 Filaments not broadened at the apex. 147 127. Filaments monadelphous, i.e., all united into a tube or sheath, at least when young. 128 Filaments diadelphous, i.e., united into a sheath, excepting one, which is free from the others, at least at the base, but sometimes connate with them in the middle or slightly cohering with them at the very base. 131 128. Leaves equally pinnate or reduced to the broadened stalk, usually ending in a tendril or bristle. Stipules large, leaf-like. Flowers solitary or in racemes, without bracteoles. Petals short-clawed. Anthers all alike. Ovary more or less distinctly stalked. Style-apex bearded on the inner face. Fruit opening by two valves. Herbs.--Species 35. North Africa and the mountains of the tropics. Several species yield edible tubers or seeds, vegetables, fodder, medicaments, or perfumes; some are poisonous or used as ornamental plants. (Including _Orobus_ L.) =Lathyrus= L.