208 LEGUMINOS^. (PULBE FAMILT.) 



Order XXXV. LEGUMIl^OSiE. (Pulse Family.) 



Trees, shruls or herls, with jpajpilionaceous or regular 

 flowers, 10 (rarely 5-ooj stamens, monadelj)hous, diadel- 

 2)hous, or rarely disti7ict, and a single, sim])le, free jpistil 

 hecoming a legume. Albumen 0. Leaves alternate, stipu- 

 led, usually comjpound — Calyx 6-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. Stamens hypo- 



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

 *lacenta 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^ACEiE. 



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. 



(a) A papilionaceous corolla, 

 (d) The standard, (c c) The 

 wingB. {d d) The keel, (e) A 

 group of diadelphous stamens, 

 consisting of nine in ose bundle 

 and one alone. (/) A monadel- 

 phous group of ten stamens. 



