" includes also nearly the same proportion of the Australian 

 " JLeguminosce, 







" P(fpi/!onacecc admit of subdivision into several natural 

 sections, hut in Terra Australis they may be divided al- 

 most equally, and without violence to natural affinities, 

 " into those with connected and those with distinct stamina. 



" The decandrous part of the whole order hears a very 

 " small proportion to the diadelphous, which in Persoon's 

 " synopsis is to the former as nearly 30 to 1, while in Terra 

 " Australis, as I have already stated, the two tribes are 

 " nearly equal. 



u This remarkably increased proportion of Decandrous 

 Papilionaceous plants, forms another peculiarity in the 

 vegetation of New Holland, where their maximum exists in 

 " the principal parallel. They are not so generally spread 

 " over the whole of Terra Australis, as the leafless Acacia? ; 

 " for although they extend to the southern extremity of Van 

 tc Diemen's Island, they are even there less abundant, and 

 " very few species have been observed within the tropic. 

 " Papilionaceous plants with distinct stamina do not in fact 

 " form a very natural subdivision of the whole order, though 

 " those of New Holland, with perhaps one or two excep- 

 ' tions, may be considered as such : this Australian portion, 

 however, forms nearly three fourths of the whole section, 

 at present known: the remaining part, consisting of 

 genera, most of which are very different, both from 

 " each other and from those of Terra Australis, are found 

 " at the Cape of Good Hope, in sequinoctial and north 

 " Africa, in the different regions of America, in New Zea- 

 land, in India, very sparingly in North Asia, and lastly 

 in the South of Europe, where, however, only two species 

 have been observed, namely, An agyms fast Ida and Cercis 

 " Siliquastrum ; but the latter having a straight embryo 

 " and a habit approaching to that of Bauhinia, rather be- 

 li longs to Lomentacece" 



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