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the different families of vicia or vetch, lathyrus, lupinus 

 or lupin, pisum or pea, and numerous others. 



Perianth of one leaf, irregular, inferior, generally withering 

 Corolla nearly the same in all; its standard either emarginate or 

 entire, either reflexed or not at the sides, for the most part very large 

 compared with the other petals ; wings, if present, always two, 

 opposite, frequently large ; keel simple, either pointed, obtuse, or 

 abrupt; stamens ten, united by their filaments into sets ; pistil gene- 

 rally uniform ; the style downy or woolly, either above or below ; 

 stigma either acute or capitate ; seed-vessel a legume of two-valves. 



ORDER XXXIII. LOMENTACE/E. 



34. This order is named from lomentum, a colour 

 used by painters, because some of its plants are much 

 employed in the art of dyeing. Polygala or milk-wort, 

 bauhinia or mountain-ebony, cassia, caesalpiniaor brasi- 

 letto, &c. 



The plants of this order are all shrubby or arboraceous. Leaves 

 alternate, compound, pinnate or bipinnate, without a terminal leaflet, 

 moringa excepted. Stipules always large. Calyx five-cleft ; corolla 

 in some degree irregular, polypetalous, except ceratonia and several 

 mimosse ; stamens differing \n number, mostly ten ; pistil univer- 

 sally single ; fruit a legume, for the most part having transverse 

 partitions. 



ORDER XXXIV. CUCCRBITACEjE. 



35. This order has received its name from cucurbita, 

 a gourd, on account of its being constituted by plants 

 similar in their habits and character to the gourd family. 

 Cucurbita or gourd, cucumis or cucumber, momordica, 

 bryonia or bryony, and so on. 



In this order there are, properly, no trees. Some of the plants, 



