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Oedee XLI. CONNARACE^. 



Elowers mostly bisexual, regular or subirregular. Calyx 

 5-fid or 4-5-parted, often persistent. Petals 5, perigynous, in- 

 serted in the bottom of the calyx, sessile or clawed, mostly 

 imbricate. Stamens 5-10, inserted with the petals ; filaments 

 free or slightly connate. Ovarian carpels 5 (rarely fewer), se- 

 parate, either all fertile or some abortive, the fertile 1-celled, 

 wdth 2 collatei'al ascending ovules; styles terminal, as many 

 as the carpels. E-ipe carpels mostly solitary, follicular, 

 leathery, rarely indehiscent. Seed solitary, with or without 

 albumen; radicle remote from the hilum. — Trees or shrubs, 

 chiefly tropical. 



1. CNESTIS, Juss. 



Calyx 5-cleft, valvate. Petals 5, shorter than the calyx, 

 glabrous. Stamens 10 ; filaments free ; anthers at length re- 

 curved. Carpels 5, sessile ; styles short ; stigmas capitate. 

 Capsules 1-2, oblong, reniform or cylindrical, and curved or 

 undulate, velvety without, within clothed with rigid and 

 stinging hairs. Seed without aril, albuminous. — Fl. Cap. i. p. 

 527. 



Shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; leaflets eoria- 

 ocous, entire. Flowers in racemose panicles. — C. Natalensis, PI. and Sd., 

 is our only species. 



Oedee XLII. LEGUMINOSiE. 



Calyx free, 5-toothed, cleft or parted, equal or unequal, the 

 odd segment in front. Petals 5 (some or all occasionally 

 wanting), usually unequal, inserted in the base of the calyx. 

 Stamens perigynous or hypogynous, definite or indefinite, va- 

 riously combined. Ovary of one carpel, with 1, 2 or many 

 ovules, attached sometimes by long cords to the ventral suture ; 

 style proceeding from the upper margin (i. e. continuous with 

 the ventral suture) ; stigma simple. Fruit a legume or a 

 lomentum, rarely drupaceous. Seeds usually exalbuminous. 

 — A vast Order, very varied in habit, but naturally divisible 

 into 3 Suborders, as follow^s : — 



1. Papilionace^. Corolla papilionaceous ; petals 5, imbricated in ajsti- 

 vation, the upper petal (vexillum, standard) exterior, folding over the 2 

 lateral petals {alee, or wings), which fold over the 2 anterior (or carina, or 

 keel). Stamens 10, all perfect, either diadelphous (9 united and 1 free) 

 monadelphous or free. 



2. C^SALPINIE^. Corolla irregular or subregular, not ]iapilionaceous ; 

 petals imbricating, the 2 anterior folding over the 2 lateral, which enclose 

 the upper petal. Stamens 10 or fewer, free or monadelphous. 



3. MiMOSE^. Flowers minute, in dense hcadd or spikes. Corolla re- 



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