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which is often planted and known as False Acacia. Glycyrrhiza, Liquorice, is a 

 native of S. Europe (Fig. 644). Colutea, Caragana, Indigo/era. Wistaria sinensis 

 is a cliraher with beautiful blue flowers, often grown against the walls of houses. 

 7. Hedysareac. Distinguished by the jointed pods, in which the seeds are 

 isolated by transverse septa. Coronilla (Fig. 645). Ornitkopus sativus, Bird's- 

 Foot. Arachis hypogaea, Ground-nut, an important, oil-yielding fruit of the tropics 

 and sub-tropics. After flowering the flower-stalks penetrate the soil in which the 

 fruits ripen. 8. Vicieae. Leaves 

 with terminal tendrils, corre- 

 sponding to the terminal leaflet ; 

 the leaves may thus appear to 

 be paripinnate. The cotyledons 

 remain within the seed-coat 

 and do not become green. 

 Stamens (9) -f 1. Ficia, Vetch ; 

 Pis-urn, Pea ; Ervum, Lentil ; 

 Lathyrus, Everlasting Pea. 

 Faba, the Broad -Beau, is an 

 erect plant, without tendrils ; 

 the terminal leaflet is reduced 

 to a bristle-shaped stump. 9. 

 Phaseoleac. Twining plants 

 with tripinnate leaves. Coty- 

 ledons usually come above 

 ground and turn green. Stamens 

 (9) +1. Pkaseolus, Kidney 

 Bean. Physostigma. 



POISONOUS. Among our 

 common Leguminosae only Cyt- 

 iaus Laburnum is extremely 

 poisonous. The other species 

 of the genus, e.y. C. alpinus, C. 

 purpureus, 0. Wcldeni, and C. 

 lifloms are poisonous, but are 

 more rarely met with than the 

 ordinary Laburnum. Coronilla 

 varia (Fig. 645), with umbels 

 of rose-coloured flowers, and Wistaria sinensis are also poisonous. 



OFFICIAL. Astragalus gummifer and other species yield TRAGACANTHA. 

 (ii.vt YiiUHiz.YE RADIX is obtained from Glycyrrhiza glabra. Spartium scoparium 

 yields SCOPARII CACUMIXA. Physostigma venosum, a West African climber, 

 yields PHYSOSTIGMATIS .SKMINA, Calabar Bean. Andira araroba, a Brazilian 

 tree, contains a powdery excretion in cavities of the stem called ARAROBA ; 

 if KYSAROBINUM is obtained from this. The heart-wood of Pterocarpus santalinus, 

 an East Indian tree, is PTEROCARPI LIGNUM. KINO is obtained from the juice 

 flowing from incisions in the trunk of Pterocarpus marsupium. Myroxylon 

 tuluifcra (S. America) yields BALSAMUM TOLUTANUM, and M. Pereirae (San 

 Salvador) BALSAMUM PERUVIANUM. 



FIG. 645. Coronilla varia (nat. size). PoisOA'OCS. 



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