CLASSIFICATION. 



included in the fleshy hypanthium (as in the Rose) or a pome 

 (Apple, pear). 



40. The Rose Family. 40. Rosacea (p. 282). 



Order XI.— Legaminosse. 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs often scandent, with alt. stipulate 

 compound or unifoliolate rarely simple leaves. Fls. small or 

 yery showy, usually zygomorphous (always so in the gynaecium) 

 perigynous, sometimes only slightly so, or even hypogynous. 

 Calyx with 5-(4)-lobes, the odd sepal or lobe inferior (ventral). 

 Sometimes calyx 2-lipped or sub-entire. Petals free, or 

 ventral pair connate, or corolla gamopetalous (Mimosaceas), if 

 corolla regular then sepals and petals always valvate in bud. 

 St. definite or many. Ovary of 1 elongate linear (short or 

 even globose in a few small herbs, e.g., Indigofera Hnifolia) 

 declinate carpel which bears usually several ovules in one or 

 two series alovig the ventral suture. Fruit a legume (pod). 



41. The Mimosa Family. 



Trees ov shrubs, often scandent (rarely undershrubs) 



with 2- pinnate leaves, and small regular 4-5-merous flowers, 

 couspicuous by bsiDg collected into dense heads or spikes. 

 Calyx and corolla valvate, usually gamopetalous. St. free or 

 monadelphous, diplostemonous or many. 



41. Mimosaceae (p. 284). 



42. The Cassia Family. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, with pinnate or 2-pinnate 

 leaves (or apparently simple in Bauhinia) and small or showy 

 fiowers always more or less zygomorphous. Corolla imbricatt , 

 dorsal petal interior in bud. St. definite, diplostemonous, or 

 fewer by reduction, free or united. 



42. Csosalpiniaceae p. (294). 

 43. The Pea Family. 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs with simple, digitate or pinnate 

 leaves and small or showy distinctly zygomorphous 



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