Leaflets numerous. Flowers in racemes. Calyx with a wide tube, truncate or with subequal lobes. Keel blunt or somewhat pointed. Filaments united, excepting one. Ovules numerous. Fruit linear, with transverse partitions.--Species 15. Tropics to Natal and Egypt. Some species yield timber, fibre, fodder, or medicaments, or serve as garden-or hedge-plants. =Sesbania= Pers. 197. Leaflets 3. 198 Leaflets numerous. 203 198. Leaflets with stipels. 199 Leaflets without stipels. 201 199. Filaments all united. Corolla red; standard unappendaged; keel almost straight, blunt, shorter than the wings. Style short and thick. Flowers very small. Twining herbs.--Species 3. Tropical and South-east Africa. Used medicinally. =Teramnus= Swartz Filaments united, excepting the uppermost, which is free at least at the base. Standard auricled at the base; keel curved. Flowers large or rather large. 200 200. Uppermost stamens free at the base, but united with the others at the middle. Corolla red; keel somewhat shorter than the wings. Twining shrubs.--Species 1. Tropics. =Dioclea= H. B. & K. Uppermost stamens free throughout. Corolla red or yellowish-green; keel as long as or longer than the wings.--Species 20. Tropics. Some of them yield poisons, medicaments, vegetables, fodder, and dyes, or serve as ornamental plants. (_Stizolobium_ P. Br.). =Mucuna= Adans. 201. Stipules free, stem-clasping. Corolla red, blue, or white; keel blunt. Ovule 1. Fruit ovate, indehiscent. Gland-dotted plants. (See 153.) =Psoralea= L. Stipules adnate to the leaf-stalk. Corolla red or yellow; keel usually beaked. Ovules 2 or more. 202 202. Leaflets toothed. Calyx with a short tube and subequal segments. Fruit dehiscing by two valves, usually terete. (See 129.) =Ononis= L. Leaflets entire. Calyx with a thread-shaped tube and unequal segments, four of which are connate. Corolla yellow. Ovules 2-3. Base of the style persistent. Fruit flat, separating in two joints or indehiscent. Herbs. Flowers usually intermixed with feathery bristles.--Species 5. Tropical and South Africa. =Stylosanthes= Swartz 203. (197.) Stem woody. Corolla white or red; wings free. Stamens diadelphous at the base, at first monadelphous at the middle. Ovary stalked. Style hairy at the apex. Fruit flat.--Species 1 (_R. Pseudacacia_ L.). Naturalized in North Africa. Yields timber and medicaments and is used as an ornamental plant. The bark and the leaves are poisonous. =Robinia= L. Stem herbaceous. Corolla blue, yellow, or whitish. Ovary sessile. 204 204. Filaments united, excepting one, or all united into a sheath split above. Wings free. Fruit oblong or ovate, flat or constricted between the seeds.--Species 2. North Africa. They yield medicaments (liquorice), dyes, and material for papermaking. =Glycyrrhiza= L.