178 MORINGE X. Morinea. 
dicle straight, small: cotyledons fleshy, plano-convex.—Leaves twice 
or thrice pinnate, with an odd leaflet. Racemes panicled. 
MORINGA. Juss. ; Lam. ill. t. 337. 
Character the same as that of the order. 
545. (1) M. pterygosperma (Geertn.:) 5 stamens without anthers: capsules 
triquetrous: seeds 3-angled, the angles expanding into wings.—Gerin. fr. 2. 
p. 314. t. 147 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 478; Wall.! L. n. 5814; Wight! cat. n. 632.— 
M. oleifera, Lam. encycl. Meth. 1. p. 398.—M. Zeylanica, Pers. syn. 1. p. 460. 
—Guilandina Moringa, Linn. sp. p. 546; Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. t. 58.—Hype- 
ranthera Moringa, Vahl, symb. 1. p. 30 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 827; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. 
p. acu Moringa, Lour.—Rheed. Mal. 6. t. 11; Rumph. Amb. 1. 
t. 14. 
*546. (2) M. polygona (DC.:)'all the stamens bearing anthers: capsules 
many-angled: seeds 3-angled, the angles expanding into wings.—DC. prod. 
2. p. 478.—Hyperanthera decandra, Willd. sp. p. 535 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 327.— 
Anoma Moringa Lour.—Burm. Zeyl.t.75; Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 15. 
Perhaps a mere variety of the last ; we have never seen specimens of it. 
ORDER LVI—LEGUMINOS/E. Juss. 
Calyx 5-parted, or toothed, or cleft, with the odd segment anterior; 
segments often unequal, and variously combined. Petals 5 (or, from 
abortion, 4, 3, 2, 1, or wanting), inserted into the base or upon tle 
tube of the calyx, usually unequal, sometimes variously combined; the 
odd petal superior. Stamens definite or indefinite, inserted with the 
petals, or sometimes hypogynous, distinct, or monadelphous, or diadel- 
phous, or rarely triadelphous : anthers bilocular, versatile. Ovaria free 
from the calyx, 1-celled, almost always solitary, very rarely 2-5: 
ovules solitary or several: style simple, proceeding from the upper 
or ventral suture: stigma simple. Fruit a legume or drupe. 
solitary or several, sometimes with an arillus or large carunculus. Al- 
bumen none. Embryo straight or with the radicle bent back along - 
the edge of the cotyledons: cotyledons thin and nearly foliaceous, 0r 
thick and fleshy.— Leaves alternate, usually trifoliate or pinnated, some 
times reduced to a solitary leaflet, with usually stipules at the base of 
the petiole, and at the base of each leaflet. Pedicels usually jointed. 
gulshed Polio quenti tet EB teas TENERE gaa E EE ED 
mains thick and fleshy, as in the common garden bean or pea ; while the other Lg 
comes more thin and foliaceous, resembling almost the leaves of the plant. 
have followed De Candolle pretty closely in his arrangement of the genera, 
it must be allowed, the characters of the subtribes and their divisions are not p 
very well defined. i 
TRIBE L—PAPILIONACER. Linn.; DC. | 
Sepals imbricated or slightly valvate in wstivation. Corolla meet 
maceous, irregular, and with the stamens inserted into the bottom © 
the calyx, or perigynous. Embryo with the radicle bent back on the 
