Orprr XLI. CONNARACES, 
Flowers mostly bisexual, regular or subirregular. Calyx 
5-fid or 4-5-parted, often persistent. Petals 5, perigynous, in- 
serted in the bottom of the calyx, sessile or clawed, mostly 
imbricate. Stamens 5-10, inserted with the petals ; filaments 
free or slightly connate. Ovarian carpels 5 (rarely fewer), se- 
parate, either all fertile or some abortive, the fertile 1-celled, 
with 2 collateral ascending ovules; styles terminal, as many 
as the carpels. Ripe carpels mostly solitary, follicular, 
leathery, rarely indehiscent. Seed solitary, with or without 
-albumen ; radicle remote from the hilum.—Trees or shrubs, 
chiefly tropical. 
1. CNESTIS, Juss. 
Calyx 5-cleft, valvate. Petals 5, shorter than the calyx, 
glabrous. Stamens 10; filaments free ; anthers at length re- 
curved. Carpels 5, sessile; styles short; stigmas capitate. 
Capsules 1-2, oblong, reniform or cylindrical, and curved or 
undulate, velvety without, within clothed with rigid and 
stinging hairs. Seed without aril, albuminous.—#7. Cap. i. p. 
527. 
Shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; leaflets coria- 
ceous, entire. Flowers in racemose panicles.—C. Natalensis, Pl. and Sd., 
is our only species. 
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Orpvrr XLII. LEGUMINOSZ. 
Calyx free, 5-toothed, cleft or parted, equal or unequal, the 
odd segment in front. Petals 5 (some or all occasionally 
wanting), usually unequal, inserted in the base of the calyx. 
Stamens perigynous or hypogynous, definite or indefinite, va- 
riously combined. Ovary of one carpel, with 1, 2 or many 
ovules, attached sometimes by long cords to the ventral suture ; 
style proceeding from the upper margin (?. e. continuous with 
the ventral suture); stigma simple. Fruit a legume or a 
lomentum, rarely drupaceous. Seeds usually exalbuminous. 
—A vast Order, very varied in habit, but naturally divisible 
into 8 Suborders, as follows :— 
1. Papitionace®. Corolla papilionaceous ; petals 5, imbricated in sesti- 
vation, the upper petal (veail/um, standard) exterior, folding over the 2 
lateral petals (ale, or wings), which fold over the 2 anterior (or carina, or 
keel). Stamens 10, all perfect, either diadelphous (9 united and 1 free) 
monadelphous or free. 
2. CMSALPINIEH. Corolla irregular or subregular, not papilionaceous ; 
petals imbricating, the 2 anterior folding over the 2 lateral, which enclose 
the upper petal. Stamens 10 or fewer, free or monadelphous. 
3. Mimosrem. Flowers minute, in dense heads or spikes. Corolla re- 
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