190 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY, 
suborders Mimoseae and Caesalpineae. The former of these form a single tribe, Mimoseae the 
latter, is divided into three tribes, namely, Geoffreae, Cassieae and Detaricae. One species only — 
of the first of these tribes is found in India, (the earth nut Arachis Aypogea) and the third 
is altogether unknown here. : 
After this explanation I presume there can be no difficulty in understanding the table, which 
I prefer giving in the original Latin, after adding with, reference to the characters of the tribes, 
that “ folia cirrhosa’’ alludes to the tendrils with which the leaves of many, the common garden 
pea for example, are furnished, and “ folia primordea” to the first pair of leaves above the seed 
lobes, not to the seed lobes themselves, which might sometimes be mists 
j then can scarcely be 
that characters taken from 
this organ are required, and even here, viewed as a means of assisting in the discrimination of 
genera, seem to be of little use, though, in a physiological point of view 
nate primordial leaves seems curious, as being confined to that tribe having 
‘e now proceed to consider in succession the several suborders 
principal, both as to its extent and importance to mankind, namely. 
Suborder—Paritionacem. 
This large suborder, which is scattered in greater or less profusion over every part of the 
known world, is composed of herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees. The leaves are usually 
alternate, unequally pinnate, or if abruptly pinnate, the rachis fre 
in place of the odd leaflet, or they are digitate 
lateral leaflets, and occasionally though rare! y, the leaf itself is al 
unequal, alternate, with lobes of the calyx unguiculate—the upper one, (virillum) larger and 
overlapping the others in wstivation: the lateral ones ( alae ) usually unequal sided, the two 
wer ones often cohering nearly their whole length into one boat-shaped petal with a double 
united into a tube Surrounding the ovary, or, with 9 ¢ 
x ey t. Legume not jo; ed bee 
trees pated: Cotsledons foliaceons durag (etme net jointed, frequently contract a. 4 
trees : leaves simple, ternate, or eit ante germination, suffruticose, or shrubby, rarely 
wardia, (which They nents but few the Berge! this tribe Sophora, Vigilia, and Ed 
in laghaut mountains) being the only ones knowB- 
® not find any useful Properties assigned to the plants of ey sera 
Be ee eae ee 
peda 5 Po ota ae eS = 
Stamens inserted with the petals, double — 
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