144. Leaflets toothed. Stipules leaf-like. Flowers solitary. Corolla white or blue. Fruit ovate to oblong, turgid, 2-valved.--Species 2. North Africa and Abyssinia; one species also cultivated in Angola. They yield edible seeds (chick-peas) and are used medicinally. =Cicer= L. Leaflets entire. Flowers in umbels or heads, rarely solitary, but then corolla yellow. 145 145. Leaflets numerous. Leaf-stalk long. Flowers very small, in heads or umbels. Keel nearly straight. Fruit jointed.--Species 6. North Africa and high mountains of Central Africa. Some are used as fodder. “Birds-foot.” (Including _Arthrolobium_ Desv.) =Ornithopus= L. Leaflets 3-5, the lower usually stipule-like. Leaf-stalk short or wanting. 146 146. Corolla yellow; standard suborbicular, with a long claw. Fruit jointed. Undershrubs with long silky hairs. Stipules small. Flowers solitary or 2-3 together in the axils of the leaves.--Species 1. North-west Africa (Algeria). (_Ludovicia_ Coss.) =Hammatolobium= Fenzl Corolla white or red; standard oblong or ovate, short-clawed; wings coherent towards the apex, longitudinally folded or transversely gibbous; keel gibbous on each side. Fruit continuous, terete, 2-valved. Stipules very small or wanting.--Species 6. North Africa. (Including _Bonjeania_ Reichb.) =Dorycnium= Vill. 147. (126.) Anthers of two kinds, five shorter and attached by the back, the others longer and attached by the base, or the alternate ones rudimentary. 148 Anthers all alike. 205 148. Leaves digitate, unifoliolate, simple, or wanting. [Tribe GENISTEAE.] 149 Leaves pinnate, but sometimes with three leaflets. 195 149. Uppermost stamen free or nearly so. 150 Uppermost stamen united with the others into a tube or sheath. 158 150. Stem herbaceous or woody at the base only. Leaves stipulate. 151 Stem woody throughout. Leaves usually exstipulate. 154 151. Keel with a straight beak. Anthers bearded. Stigma lateral. Fruit linear. Leaves simple, sessile. Flowers in axillary racemes.--Species 2. Southern West Africa. (Under _Indigofera_ L.) =Rhynchotropis= Harms Keel with a spirally twisted beak or without a beak. Anthers not bearded. Stigma terminal. Leaves unifoliolate or digitate. 152 152. Keel spirally beaked. Fruit oblong. Flowers opposite the leaves, solitary or 2-3 together. Bracteoles 2.--Species 2. South Africa to Amboland. =Bolusia= Benth. Keel curved inwards, not beaked. Flowers in axillary or terminal inflorescences. Bracteoles none. 153 153. Keel somewhat pointed. Ovules several. Fruit linear. Leaves digitate. Corolla reddish.--Species 1. East Africa. =Parochetus= Hamilt. Keel blunt. Ovule 1. Fruit ovate. Gland-dotted plants.--Species 60. Some are used as ornamental or medicinal plants. =Psoralea= L. 154. Keel with a lateral gibbosity or spur. Anthers distinctly unequal. Leaves simple. 155 Keel without a lateral appendage. Anthers nearly equal. 156