208 LEGUMINOS^. (PULSE FAMILY.) 



Ordeb XXXV. I^EGUMINOSiE. (Pulse Family.) 



Trees, shriibs or her'hs, with jpajpilionaceous or regular 

 fiowers, 10 (rarely 5-qo ) stamens, monadelphous, diadel- 

 ^Jious, or rarely distinct, and a single, sim/ple, free jpistil 

 becoming a legume. Albumen 0. Leaves alternate, stijpu- 

 led, usually compound — Calyx S-toothed, the fifth tooth 

 below, or bilabiate, rarely parted to disk. Petals perigynous, 

 rarely connate and adherent to stamens, in the irregular 

 flowers 5, imbricated, in the regular valvate. Staaiens hypo- 

 gynous, or inserted at margin of disk, adnate to base of calyx. 

 Placenta along dorsal suture of the pod. Ovules generally 

 numerous, rarely solitary, amphitropous or anatropous. 

 Legume sometimes nearly two-celled by introflexion of suture, 

 or many-celled by transverse partitions. 



Suborder I. PAPIL.IO»[ACE^. 



Corolla papilionaceous, calyx united beyond the disk. 

 Petals imbricated, the uppermost exterior. Eadicle in flexed, 

 accumbent on the cotyledons, or (in Cicer) straight, short. 



Fig. 87. 



(c) A papilionaceous corolla. 

 (6) The standard, (cc) The 

 wings, {d d) The keel, (e) A 

 group of diadelphous stamens, 

 consisting of nine in ose bundle 

 y\^C and one alone. (/) A monadel- 

 phous group often stamens. 



