Leguminosae, Pea Family, 
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Ours herbs with alternate, stipulate, Compound, usually pinnate leaves. 7 
Flowers perfect, in racemes or head-like clusters, strongly irregular, 
Calyx of 5 partially united sepals, or Sometimesaby the nearly complete 
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union of the sepals, (2-lippeds Corélia 2ygomorphic 
with 5 dissimilar petals, the upper (the banner) larger, 
the-binde—oreet, the lateral pair (the wings) oblique and enclosing the 
lowermost pair which are more or less united along their edges to form a 
boat-shaped structure (the keel), all déeeimet—end more or less clawed, 
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Stamens 10, nest-sften8y hypogynous, filaments! united into atubuler ., 
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sheath surrounding the ovary, ome uppermost stamen distinct,” Pistil 1, 
superior, l-chambered, rarely 2-chambered at maturity by the intrusion of “fi 
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sutres, forming ab—metunise a pod (legume ) usually dehiscent by 2 valves, buf 
See es sometimes indehiscent, Seeds mostly kidney-shaped 
or slobose, without endosperm, Stamens-ei}-di-stinet-in-Thermopsts;-ai4 
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