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Leaves alternate, petiolate, unifoliolate, elliptical elliptic-oval 

 or broadly lanceolate, acute obtuse or narrowly retuse, often 

 broadly acuminate, obsoletely crenate-serrulate, rather coriaceous, 

 translucently glandular-dotted, lamina articulated at the base to 

 the petiole, which is often more or less distinctly winged. 



Flowers in shortly pedunculate or sub-sessile few-flowered 

 fascicles from the axils of the upper leaves, regular, hermaphro- 

 dite, white and fragrant. 



Calyx inferior, cup-shaped, persistent, quinque-dentate, teeth 

 deltoid. 



Corolla hypogynous, polypctalous, much exceeding the 

 calyx ; petals normally five (varying to eight), linear or oblong, 

 fleshy, spreading or recurved, imbricate in aestivation. 



Stamens hypogynous, indefinite, polyadelphous ; filaments 

 compressed, variously coherent ; anthers oblong, two-celled, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. 



Pistil syncarpous ; ovary superior globose, seated upon a 

 fleshy annular or hemispherical disk, many-celled ; style erect, 

 terete, deciduous, stigma capitate loDulate ; ovules mdefinite, 

 biseriate. 



Fruit globose, many-celled : pericarp fleshy, replete with 

 minute immersed receptacles of aromatic essential oil, glabrous, 

 rugulose ; septa membranous ; cells usually few-seeded (or seeds 

 abortive), filled with a succulent cellular tissue developed from 

 the inner wall of the pericarp. 



Seeds exalbuminous ; testa coriaceous ; embryo with fleshy 

 cotyledons and a small superior radicle, usually deformed from 

 mutual pressure, the seeds being most frequently polyembryonous. 



GARDEN PEA : Pisum sativum. 

 Class, Dicotyledons. Division^ Calyciflorae. 



A weak climbing annual herb, with alternate stipulate com- 

 pound leaves ending in tendrils, and irregular (papilionaceous) 

 flowers. 



Root fibrous, branching. 



