Petals distinct from the staminal tube, inserted on the hypanthium. Ovary 1-ovuled and pod 1-seeded. Calyx-lobes not much enlarging in fruit, erect; corolla papilio naceous. Pod indehiscent. Plants shrubby, with spinescent-tipped leaflets; leaves odd-pinnate with a sessile terminal leaflet or 3-foliolate. 1. Psoraleae. Plants herbaceous or shrubby, with innocuous leaflets. Pericarp adherent to the seed; leaves pinnately 1-3 foliolate; introduced genera. Pod conspicuously glandular-warty, with a short persistent beak; leaflets coarsely dentate. 2. Cullen. Pod not conspicuously warty, with a long flat beak, which ultimately breaks off; leaflets entire-3. Asphalthium. Pericarp not adherent to the seed; indigenous genera. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Pod coriaceous or bony, cross-wrinkled, neither hairy nor included in the calyx. 4. Orbexilum. Pod membranous or leathery, not cross-wrinkled, hairy, included in the calyx. 5. Hoita. Leaves digitately compound. Pod crescent-shaped, flat, cross-ribbed; claw of banner twice bent. 6. Rhytidomene. Pod orbicular to oblong-ovate, slightly compressed, glandular-dotted but not crossribbed; claw of banner straight to the base of the blade. 7. Psoralidium. Pod circumscissile or bursting irregularly; beak long; leaves digitately compound, or the median leaflet petioled, and if 3-foliolate apparently pinnate. 8. Pediomelum. Calyx-lobes much enlarging and spreading in fruit, reticulateveined; corolla scarcely papilionaceous, all petals distinct; shrubs, with odd-pinnate leaves and many leaflets-9. Apoplanesia. Ovary 2-6 ovuled. Filaments distinct, or united only at the base; corolla wanting or reduced to the banner only. Banner wanting; stamens free. 10. Parryella. Banner present; stamens united at the base. 11. Amorpha• Filaments united more than half their length into an elongate tube split on the upper side; corolla usually present. Pod flat, exserted; stamens diadelphous. 12. Eysenhardtia. Pod turgid; stamens monadelphous. Corolla scarcely papilionaceous; petals all free and nearly clawless; stipules spinescent. 13. Psorobatus. Corolla papilionaceous; petals clawed and those of the keel usually adnate or coherent. Pod exserted; flowers pedicelled. 14. Psorodendron.