Filaments all united into a closed tube. Wings slightly adhering to the keel. Style glabrous. Fruit linear, subterete.--Species 1. North Africa (Algeria). Used as an ornamental, medicinal, or fodder-plant. “Goats rue.” =Galega= L. 205. (147.) Leaves abruptly pinnate. [Especially tribe VICIEAE.] 206 Leaves imparipinnate, digitate, unifoliolate, simple, or wanting. 220 206. Calyx distinctly two-lipped, the upper lip entire or shortly 2-toothed, the lower one entire, 3-toothed, or 3-parted. Corolla yellow; standard suborbicular. Fruit jointed. Flowers in racemes. 207 Calyx equally or subequally toothed or divided, or entire. 210 207. Bracts very large, imbricate, hiding the flowers and fruits. Bracteoles none. Flowers very small. Filaments all united. Ovules 2. Herbs. Stipules produced at the base into a spur-like appendage.--Species 9. Central Africa. =Geissaspis= Wight & Arn. Bracts not hiding the flowers, usually small and deciduous. Bracteoles present. 208 208. Fruit enclosed by the enlarged calyx. Filaments all united. Ovules more than two.--Species 30. Tropical and South-east Africa. (_Damapana_ Adans., including _Kotschya_ Endl.) =Smithia= Ait. Fruit much exceeding the calyx. 209 209. Ovary sessile. Uppermost stamen free. Keel obtuse. Fruit ring-shaped or spirally twisted, flat, glabrous except at the shortly spinous sutures, 2-valved. Herbs. Leaves with 2-4 pairs of leaflets. Stipules spurred at the base. Bracts not spurred.--Species 1. West Africa. =Cyclocarpa= Afz. Ovary stalked. Fruit straight, curved, or spirally twisted; in the latter case covered with glandular hairs.--Species 60. Tropical and South Africa. Some species (especially the ambatch, _A. Elaphroxylon_ Taub.) yield cork-wood, fibre, and medicaments. (Including _Herminiera_ Guill. & Perr.) =Aeschynomene= L. 210. Style hairy, usually bearded lengthwise. Fruit more or less flattened, 1-celled, 2-valved. Seeds with an outgrowth near the hilum. Herbs. Bracteoles rudimentary or wanting. 211 Style glabrous. 214 211. Staminal tube obliquely truncate at its mouth. 212 Staminal tube evenly truncate. 213 212. Style bearded on the inner face. Flowers small. Corolla bluish-white; keel somewhat pointed. Uppermost stamen free. Ovary almost sessile. Ovules 2. Seeds flat.--Species 3. North Africa; also cultivated in northern Central Africa. The seeds of _L. esculenta_ Moench (lentils) are used as food, for the preparation of starch, and in medicine. (Under _Ervum_ L.) =Lens= Gren. & Godr. Style hairy all round or on the back only; in the latter case flowers large or middle-sized. Seeds globose or slightly flattened.--Species 40. North and East Africa; some species also naturalized in South Africa and the Mascarene Islands. They yield fodder, edible fruits and seeds (especially beans from _V. Faba_ L.), and medicaments; some are used as ornamental plants. “Vetch.” (Including _Ervum_ L. and _Faba_ Tourn.) =Vicia= L.