24. RHAMNACE^l. 25. LEGUMINOSJE. S3 



lanceolate minutely serrate, caps, obtusely angular not winged. 

 K B. 362. R. vi. 309. St. 27. 3. Orange-coloured aril en- 

 closing the seed. Bark green. L. glabrous. Fl. forming small 

 umbels, greenish white. Fruit rose-cok>ured. Hedges and 

 woods, tth. V. VI. E. S. I. 



Order XXIV. KHAMNACEJE. 



Cal. 4 5-cleft, valvate in the bud. Pet. distinct, inserted 

 in the throat of the calyx. Stam, opposite to the pet. and 

 equalling them in number. Ovary wholly or in part superior, 

 2 3 4-celled, surrounded by a glandular clisk. Seeds solitary, 

 erect. Embryo straight. Fr. fleshy or dry. Shrubs. Stip. 

 minute. 



1. RHAMNTJS. Cal. pitcher-shaped, 4 5-cleft. Pet. 4 or 5, 

 or sometimes 0, inserted with the stam. on the margin of 

 the tube of the calyx. Fruit fleshy, with 2 4 cells and 

 as many seeds. 



1. EHAM'NUS Linn. Buckthorn. 



1. R, cathar'ticus (L.) ; thorns terminal,^, deleft dioecious, 

 petioles much longer than the stipules, I. roundish-oval sharply 

 toothed, fr. with 4 seeds. E. B. 1629. Branches opposite. 

 Serratures of the 1. incurved, glandular. Notch in the seeds 

 closed. Styles 4, united halfway up. Hedges and thickets. 

 Sh. V. VII. Buckthorn. E. S. I. 



2. R. Frarigula (L.) ; spineless, fl. 5-cleft perfect, I. elliptic- 

 obovate acuminate narrowed below entire, fr. with 2 seeds, style 

 simple. Sy. E. B. 319. Branches alternate. Fl. in small 

 clusters greenish white, small. Hedges and thickets. Sh. V. 

 VI. Black Alder. E. S. ? I. 



Order XXV. LEGUMETOS.^. 



Cal. inferior. Sep. 5, more or less combined, odd one inferior. 

 Cor. papilionaceous (in our plants), inserted into the base of the 

 calyx. Pet. 5, odd one superior and external. Stam. 10 (in 

 our plants), monadelphous or diadelphous. Ovary free, 1-celled. 

 Fruit a legume ; placenta on the upper suture ; style from the 

 upper suture. Embryo bent over the edge of the cotyledons, or 

 straight. All our plants have papilionaceous flowers and 10 

 stamens in one bundle or in two bundles of 9 and 1 L. mostly 

 stipulate ; Its. often stipulate 



