FLORA OF TROPICAL AFRICA, 
Orper XLVII. LEGUMINOSZ. 
Flowers irregular or regular, usually hermaphrodite. Calyx 
gamosepalous 5-toothed or -lobed or 2 or more teeth connate, rarely 
polysepalous. Corolla of 5 rarely fewer petals, usually irregular and 
imbricate in Suborders 1 and 2, regular and valvate in 3. Stamens 
10 rarely fewer or indefinite, perigynous or subhypogynous.  Pistil 1- 
carpellary, ovary free with 1 or more ovules on the ventral suture ; 
style simple. Fruit a legume dehiscing by both sutures, more rarely 
follicular or indehiscent. Seed exalbuminous or albuminous especially 
in genera of Suborder 2.—Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate 
With few exceptions, usually stipulate, compound 1-2 -foliolate, or 
rarely simple. Inflorescence various. . 
a second largest Natural Order of flowering plants, generally distributed over the 
globe. 
Susorper I. Papriionacez. (By Mr. J, G. Baker.) 
Flowers irregular, rarely subregular ; hermaphrodite. Calyx gamo- 
sepalous 5-toothed or -lobed, or 2 upper lobes more or less connate, or 
bilabiate 2 upper lobes opposed to the 3 lower; rarely closed in bud 
and spathaceous. Corolla papilionaceous, or rarely nearly regular ; 
petals 5 free or adnate below to the staminal tube; posterior (standard) 
outside in bud, 2 lateral (wings) intermediate, 2 lower inside and usually 
coherent by their lower margins (keel). Stamens perigynous or sub- 
~ Pogynous, 10, diadelphous monadelphous or free (in § Swartziee <). 
vary of the order. Embryo usually with an inflexed radicle, the 
cotyledons accumbent.—Herbs, shrubs, or trees, sometimes scandent. 
®aves alternate, digitate or pinnate, more rarely 1-foliolate or simple. 
utlorescence various. 
Ninety-one genera of this suborder are tropical African; of these but 9 are peculiar 
to this Flora, 
Turse 1. Genistese.—Stamens 10, monadelphous, the anthers usually of two kinds. 
tri two-valved, not articulated. Erect herbs or shrubs, with simple or digitately 
Tifoliolate leaves. Leaflets entire. 
ube of stamens slit along the top. 
Seg fe with the four upper teeth more or less connate . . . . . 1. Lorononis. 
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