327. Fruit oblong, blunt or shortly pointed. Seeds with an outgrowth at the hilum. Herbs or undershrubs. Stipules persistent. Flowers in fascicles or short racemes.--Species 2. Madagascar and Mascarenes. (Under _Atylosia_ Wight & Arn.) =Cantharospermum= Wight & Arn. Fruit linear, ending in a long point. Seeds without an outgrowth at the hilum. Style broadened in the middle and towards the apex. Erect shrubs or undershrubs. Stipules deciduous, awl-shaped. Flowers in racemes. (See 307.) =Cajanus= DC. 328. Flowers in long, more or less spike-like racemes. Ovules few. Fruit oblong to globose, thick, straight, indehiscent, 1-3-seeded. Herbs. (See 324.) =Melilotus= Juss. Flowers solitary or in short racemes, heads, or umbels. 329 329. Fruit linear or oblong, straight or slightly curved. Herbs.--Species 25. North Africa, Nile-land, and South Africa. _T. foenumgraecum_ L. is cultivated for its seeds, which are used as food, fodder, vermin-poison, in medicine, and in the manufacture of cloth; it is also used as a vegetable. =Trigonella= L. Fruit spirally twisted, more rarely sickle-or kidney-shaped. (See 324.) =Medicago= L. 330. (251.) Stem herbaceous or woody at the base only. 331 Stem woody throughout. 347 331. Uppermost stamen united with the others from the base, at least when young. 332 Uppermost stamen free from the others, at least at the base. 336 332. Filaments united into a closed tube, at least when young. Corolla red, blue, or white. Fruit dehiscing by two valves. 333 Filaments united into a sheath split on one or both sides. Corolla yellow, sometimes veined with red. Fruit breaking up into joints, more rarely indehiscent. 335 333. Stem twining. Leaflets 5-7, stipellate. Bracteoles present. Uppermost stamen finally separating from the others. (See 266.) =Glycine= L. Stem erect or decumbent. Leaflets not stipellate. Bracteoles absent. Uppermost stamen remaining united with the others. 334 334. Leaflets 5-7. Stipules bristle-like. Corolla red; standard sessile; wings free. Connective ending in a short point. Fruit septate. (See 313.) =Cyamopsis= DC. Leaflets numerous. Stipules semi-sagittate. Corolla blue or white; standard short-clawed; wings adhering to the keel. Connective without an appendage. Fruit 1-celled. (See 204.) =Galega= L. 335. Fruit enclosed by the enlarged calyx, folded, with 2 or more flat joints. Calyx 2-lipped. (See 208.) =Smithia= Ait. Fruit much exceeding the calyx. Ovary stalked. (See 209.) =Aeschynomene= L. 336. Uppermost stamen united with the others in the middle, at least when young. 337 Uppermost stamen free throughout. 339