FABACEAE 748 
base.—(CRAB'S-EYE. INDIAN-LICORICE. LICORICE-VINE. ROSARY-PEA. gos 
VINE ae thickets and roadsides, pen. Fla. Nat. of Eu.—(W. I., Mex 
C. A., S. A.) —The bright- RA seeds, designed, E to attract n are 
used as beads in various countri 
ORDER GERANIALES 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate or opposite: blades simple 
or compound. Flowers perfect, monoecious, or dioecious, mostly regular. 
Calyx of distinct sepals. Corolla of distinct or nearly distinct petals, 
or rarely wanting. Androecium of as many stamens as there are sepals or 
twice as many, or rarely more. Gynoecium of 2 or several united carpels. 
Ovary superior. Fruit various. 
Plant without secreting glands or cells in their tissues. 
e seen partially united. 
S adnate around a column from which they break at maturity. 
Fam. 1. GERANIACEAE. 
Styles not united around a central column. 
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S twice as many as eee cepa Fam. 2. OXALIDACEAE. 
Stan Ene as many as the sepal Fam. 3. LINACEAE. 
ere _appendaged, each bearing ae or two 
lands the bac Genera in Fam. 8. MALPIGHIACEAE. 
Filaments pe : 
alyx irregular, one sepal spurred or saccate. 
"A : 
nthers distinct: carpels 1-ovuled. Fam. 4. TROPAEOLACEAE. 
Anthers united over the top of the gynoe- 
eium : carpels several-ovuled. Fam. 5. BALSAMINACEAE. 
C. regular, none of the sepals spurred or 
Style i arising from between the nearly 
distinct carpel- bodies Fam. 6. LIMNANTHACEAE. 
PEE o basal, the carpel-bodie s well-united. 
, shrubs or trees with conspicuously 
or altern ate mostly compound eaves, 
the 
leaves re id : gan withous 
glands anther with inconspicuous 
connectives ; : filaments usually wi a 
cale at the base: gyno Suena mostly 
4-12- carpellary, and with united styles 
and 2-several ovules, or rarely a single 
ovule in each carpel: embryo straight 
or nearly so. Fam. 7. ZYGOPHYLLACEAE. 
Shrubs, trees ly vines with incon- 
spicuously jointed stems and opposite 
imple leaves: calyx commonly with a 
glan r of glands on the back 
each sepal; anthers mostly with 
conspicuous connectives ; filaments with- 
out sca as noecium 
styles and a single ovule in each car- 
pel: embryo usually abruptly bent or 
coiled. Fam. 8. MALPIGHIACEAE. 
Plants with E glands or cells which are often in 
the leaves, or only in the bark. 
Filaments distinct nearly or w to the base. 
eaves tiat 2 oil gla Fam. 9. RUTACEAE. 
Leaves not punct 
Gynoecium of. distinct carpels. am. 10. SURIANACEAE. 
Gynoecium of more or less united carpels. 
B Made shrubs or trees with oil-sacs 
am. 11. SIMARUBACEAE. 
Re SIRO. shrubs or trees. Fam. 12. BURSERACEAE. 
Filaments united into a cup or tube, wholly or in 
part. Fam. 13. MELIACEAE. 
