428 CONNARACEX.—LEGUMINOS&. 
Series 3. Calyciflore. 
Cohort 1. Rosales.—Stamens perigynous or epigynous. Gynce- 
cium generally simple or apocarpous, or rarely syncarpous ; 
ovary superior or inferior ; placentation usually marginal or 
axile ; styles generally solitary or distinct, or rarely united ; 
seeds albuminous or exalbuminous. 
Order 1. CoNNARACES, the Connarus Order.—Character. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, without dots, compound, 
and generally exstipulate. Flowers usually perfect, or rarely 
unisexual. Calyx 5-partite, inferior, imbricate or valvate in 
vestivation. Petals 5, inserted on the calyx, imbricate or valvate. 
Stamens 10, usually monadelphous, nearly or quite hypogynous. 
Oarpels 1 or more ; ovules 2, sessile, collateral, ascending, ortho- 
tropous. Fruit follicular. Seeds with or without albumen, 
arillate or exarillate ; radicle superior, at the extremity most 
remote from the hilum. 
Distribution and Numbers.—Natives of the tropics and most 
common in tropical America. Illustrative Genera :—Connarus, 
Omphalobium. There are about 42 species. 
Properties and Uses.—Some have oily seeds ; others, as certain 
species of Omphalobiwm, have edible arils. The zebra-wood of 
the cabinet makers is said by Schomburgk to be furnished by 
Omphalobium Lamberti, a very large Guiana tree. (See (uet- 
tarda.) 
Order 2. Lecuminos#, the Leguminous Order.—C haracter. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, stipulate, usually 
compound (figs. 275, 377, and 380). Calyx ( figs. 943, s, and 
944, c) monosepalous, inferior, more or less deeply divided into 
five parts, the odd division being anterior (fig. 943, s). Petals 
usually 5 (fig. 943), or sometimes by abortion 4, 3, 2, 1, or rarely 
none, inserted into the base of the calyx, equal or unequal, often 
papilionaceous (fig. 944), the odd petal, if any, posterior (fig. 
943, ps). Stamens definite (figs. 943 and 945), or indefinite, 
usually perigynous, or rarely hypogynous, distinct or united 
into 1, 2 (figs. 552 and 945), or rarely 3 bundles. Ovary 
superior, usually formed of 1 carpel( figs. 603 and 943), although 
rarely of 2 or 5; 1-celled with 1, 2, or many ovules ; style and 
stiama simple ( firs. 603 and 945). Fruit usually a legume ( figs. 
6E8 and 689-691), or sometimes a lomentum ( figs. 686 and 692), 
or rarely a drupe. Seeds 1 or more, sometimes arillate, attached 
to the upper or ventral suture (fig. 946); albwmen usually 
absent ; embryo (fig. 16) straight, or with the radicle folded 
upon the cotyledons; cotyledons leafy or fleshy, and either 
hypogeal or epigeal. 
'- Diagnosis. —Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves nearly always 
alternate and stipulate, and usually compound. Flowers regular 
or irregular. Calyx inferior, 5-partite ; odd division anterior. 
Petals 5, and then unequal or equal ; or fewer by abortion, or 
