Flowers without bracteoles. Ovary sessile. Fruit flat. Leaflets without stipels, usually with numerous parallel side-nerves.--Species 130. Some of them yield dyes, poisons, and medicaments. (_Cracca_ L., including _Pogonostigma_ Boiss. and _Requienia_ DC.) =Tephrosia= Pers. 234. Connective of the stamens ending in a small point, a gland, or a tuft of hairs. Keel straight or slightly curved. Fruit with transverse partitions. Plants clothed with appressed hairs fixed by the middle. 235 Connective without an appendage. Hairs rarely affixed by the middle. 236 235. Keel beaked. Anthers bearded at base and apex. Style boat-shaped below. Ovules 4-6. Fruit short-stalked, turgid. (See 151.) =Rhynchotropis= Harms Keel blunt or somewhat pointed, gibbous or spurred on each side. Style thread-shaped. Fruit sessile or nearly so. (See 215.) =Indigofera= L. 236. Ovule 1. 237 Ovules 2 or more. 238 237. Leaflets with stipels. Flowers in racemes, with broad bracteoles. Calyx-lobes narrow, subequal. Fruit dehiscing by two valves.--Species 2. Madagascar. =Leptodesmia= Benth. Leaflets without stipels. Leaves gland-dotted. Fruit indehiscent; pericarp adnate to the seed. (See 153.) =Psoralea= L. 238. Ovules 2. Corolla usually yellow. 239 Ovules 3 or more. Corolla usually red. 240 239. Seeds oblong, without an outgrowth at the hilum; hilum linear, the funicle affixed at its apex. Upper calyx-lobes separate or shortly united. Standard oblong or obovate. Erect or decumbent, rarely twining plants.--Species 55. Tropical and South Africa. The roots of one species are used in making beer. =Eriosema= DC. Seeds orbicular or reniform, with a more or less distinct outgrowth at the hilum; hilum orbicular or oblong, the funicle affixed at or nearly in the middle. Upper calyx-lobes more or less united. Standard orbicular or obovate. Twining or decumbent, more rarely erect plants.--Species 100. Tropical and South Africa and Egypt. (_Dolicholus_ Medik.) =Rhynchosia= Lour. 240. Calyx-lobes long, stiff, very unequal, the two upper ones united high up. Style thread-shaped, glabrous. Fruit jointed, indehiscent. Leaves unifoliolate, usually stipellate. Stipules membranous. Flowers small, in racemes, with bracteoles.--Species 9. Tropical and South Africa. (_Fabricia_ Scop.). =Alysicarpus= Neck. Calyx-lobes subequal. Style flattened, bearded towards the apex. Fruit not jointed, dehiscing by two valves. Seeds with a small aril. Leaves reduced to the broadened or tendril-bearing petiole. Stipules leaf-like. Flowers without bracteoles. (See 128.) =Lathyrus= L. 241. (224.) Filaments all united into a tube split on one or on both sides. Bracteoles present. 242 Filaments united into a tube, excepting one which is free, at least at the base. 240