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LEGUMINOSJE, LES LÉGUMINEUSES. 
Cirrx mono hyllus, varie divifus. Corolla po- 
lypetala , rariflime nulla aut monopetala fummo ca- 
lici inferta infrà ejufdem  divifuras. Petala nunc 
quinque aut interdum pauciora, regularia fubzqualia , 
nunc fzpius" quatuor irregularia ,. papilionem fimul 
emulantia (und& flos papiionaceus ) , nempe vexillum 
fuperius & exterum catera femiample&ens & iifdem 
plerumque majus , a/z dux laterales, carina inferior 
& intima fimplex aut bipartita. Stamina: decem , raro 
pauciora aut plura, calici fub petalis inferta , fila- 
-mentis modó- diftindis aut. bafi tantum fubcoalitis , 
modo fzpiüs diadelphis feu novem connatis in tubum 
fub vexillo fiffüim & decimo folitario fifurz applicito , 
ant interdüm monadelphis tubo indivifo decandro ; 
antherz diftindz , fxpius fubrotunde parva, inter- 
dum oblongz incumbentes. Germen fimplex fuperun ; 
itylus unicus; ftigma fimplex. Fru&us in paucis cap- 
fularis unilocularis fubmonofpermus bivalvis aut non 
dehifcens ; in plurimis leguminofus (undé nomen or- 
dinis ) longior bivalvis ( trivalvis in Moringà , quadri- 
valvis in Mimofz fpecie unic& ) feminibus uni futurz 
laterali affxis, nunc unilocularis mono aut po'y- 
fpermus, nunc multilocularis diffepimentis traniveriis. 
& loculis monofpermis interdüm poo In poly- 
petalis irregularibus radicula corculi in lobos inclinans 
abfque perifpermo ; in regularibus eadem re&a , pe- 
rtfpermo feu membran craffiuículà corculum invol | 
vente ; lobi in folia feminalia plerumque mutabiles 
generaliori Dicotyledonum more , interdum fub iifdem —— 
foliis perfiftentes diftin&ti. Caulis herbaceus aut fru- —— 
tefcens arboreufve, fzpius alterne ramofus. Folia Ri- — 
Pulacea alterna (in pauciflimis füboppofita), nunc - 
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