86 LEGUMINOSJE. (PULSE FAMILY.) 
lobes of the caruncle subulaté, varying in length; seeds hairy ; radical spikes 
bracted. — Mountains of Georgia and northward. May. — Stems 4'- 6' high, 
from a long prostrate base. Flowers $' long, purple. 
Orpver 46. KRAMERIACE/E. (Ruatany FAMILY.) 
Silky-pubescent herbs or shrubs, with diffuse stems, alternate leaves, and 
irregular hypogynous purplish flowers, on axillary 2-bracted and jointed 
peduncles. — Sepals 5, colored, deciduous. Petals 5, shorter than the 
sepals; the 3 posterior ones, long-clawed, often united; the 2 anterior 
broad, sessile and fleshy. Stamens 4, the posterior ones distinct or united. 
Anthers 2-celled, opening by a terminal pore. Ovary 1-celled, 2-ovuled. 
Fruit 1-seeded, woody, indehiscent, armed with hispid prickles. Albumen 
none. Radicle concealed in the cotyledons. 
. KRAMERIA, Loefl. 
Characters of the order. 
1. K. lanceolata, Torr. Herbaceous; stems slender, prostrate, mostly 
branching ; leaves lanceolate or linear, acute ; peduncles longer than the leaves, 
leafy-bracted above the middle; claws of the posterior petals, and stamens, 
united ; fruit globose, downy, armed with few strong spreading spines. — Tampa 
Bay, South Florida, and westward. — Root long and woody. Stems 1? long. 
ORDER 47. LEGUMINOSZ. (Purse FAMiLY.) 
. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with chiefly compound alternate stipulate leaves, 
and papilionaceous or regular perigynous or hypogynous flowers. — Sepals 
5, more or less united. Petals 5, rarely fewer, or none. Stamens mona- 
delphous, diadelphous, or distinct. Ovary simple, free, forming a legume 
in fruit. Seeds without albumen. Leaves almost always with entire mar- 
gins. | 
Synopsis. 
Suborder I. PAPILIONACEZ. Corolla of 5 (rarely fewer) irreg- 
ular petals, inserted into the base of the calyx, rarely perigynous, imbri- 
cated in the bud, mostly papilionaceous; viz. one upper and exterior, —— 
. termed the vezillum or standard; two lateral, called wings ; and two lower  -— 
and interior, oftener united by their contiguous margins, forming together 
the keel. Stamens 10 (rarely 5), separate, monadelphous, or diadelphous io 
(9 & 1, or 5 & 5). Legume 1-celled (sometimes partly 2-celled by the in- — — 
troversion of | a. or several-celled a partitions. Style 
simple. Mc Moe 
