Leaves unequally pinnate, digitate, or unifoliolate. Style glabrous. 129 129. Leaflets minutely toothed, 1 or 3, very rarely more. Stipules adnate to the leaf-stalk. Flowers solitary or in racemes. Calyx-lobes long, subequal. Petals short-clawed. Anthers usually of two kinds. Ovary more or less distinctly stalked. Fruit dehiscing by two valves.--Species 60. North Africa and Abyssinia. Some are used as vegetables or in medicine. =Ononis= L. Leaflets entire. Stipules small or wanting. Flowers in heads or umbels, sometimes almost solitary. Petals long-clawed. Anthers all alike. Fruit not or tardily dehiscing. 130 130. Ovary sessile. Ovules 2. Fruit protruding beyond the calyx, linear, shortly or not beaked, slightly 4-angled, spirally coiled. Silky herbs. Flowers in umbels, very small, reddish-yellow, without bracteoles.--Species 1. Abyssinia. =Helminthocarpum= A. Rich. Ovary more or less distinctly stalked. Fruit enclosed by the calyx or slightly protruding; in the latter case beaked. Flowers in heads or nearly solitary.--Species 12. North Africa and Abyssinia. Some species (especially _A. Vulneraria_ L.) are used as fodder-, dyeing-, medicinal-, or ornamental plants. (Including _Cornicina_ Boiss., _Dorycnopsis_ Boiss., and _Physanthyllis_ Boiss.) =Anthyllis= L. 131. (127.) Keel beaked. 132 Keel blunt or somewhat pointed. 138 132. Ovary short-stalked. Ovules 2. Calyx deeply and equally divided. Corolla yellow. Fruit spirally coiled, flat, margined, indehiscent. Herbs. Lowermost leaves simple, with adnate stipules, upper pinnate, without stipules. Flowers in few-flowered heads.--Species 1. North Africa. (_Circinus_ Medik.) =Hymenocarpos= Savi Ovary sessile. Ovules more than two. Calyx more or less unequally divided. Flowers solitary or in umbels. 133 133. Leaves simple, undivided. Stipules adnate to the leafstalk. Upper calyx-teeth united high up. Petals long-clawed, yellow. Fruit spirally coiled, almost terete, ribbed. Herbs.--Species 5. North Africa and Abyssinia. =Scorpiurus= L. Leaves pinnate, sometimes apparently digitate. 134 134. Fruit jointed. 135 Fruit not jointed. Herbs or undershrubs. 136 135. Joints of the fruit and seeds curved. Fruit more or less flattened, with the upper edge notched at each seed. Corolla yellow. Leaves with 5 or more leaflets.--Species 9. North Africa. =Hippocrepis= L. Joints of the fruit and seeds straight, oblong. Fruit not or slightly flattened. Leaves with 3 or more leaflets, stipulate.--Species 12. North Africa. Some species are poisonous or used as ornamental or medicinal plants. =Coronilla= L. 136. Leaves with many leaflets. Stipules small, membranous. Corolla yellow. Fruit flat, slightly curved. Seeds quadrate. Glabrous herbs.--Species 1. North Africa. (_Bonaveria_ Scop., _Securidaca_ Gaertn.). =Securigera= DC.