360 BENGAL PLANTS. 
“Calyx divided into lobes (except in some Bauhinias) down to the top of 
the disk ; upper petal innermost; stamens almost always free [p. 359] 
Suborder CASALPINIEZ. 
{Flowers regular ; petals valvate ; stamens often indefinite fp. 359] 
Suborder MIMOSEZ, 
Suborder I, PAPILIONACEA. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, Leaves simple or digitately or 
pinnately compound, rarely 2-pinnate; stipels very common. 
Flowers irregular, rarely almost regular, almost always 
hermaphrodite, never capitate, very rarely spicate. Sepals 5, 
united above the middle and beyond the disk in a campan 
or tubular calyx with truncate, 5-toothed or 5-lobed limb, often 
the two upper sepals connate and the limb 4-toothed, or the two 
upper and three lower discretely connate and the limb 2-lipped; 
rarely closed in bud and spathaceous in flower. Petals 54, 
imbricate, erect or Spreading, the upper (standard) outmost, free 
or below to stamens, the 2 lower (keel) inmost 
accumbent cotyledons, 
“Stamens 1- or 2-adelphous :— [p. 365} 
tPlants with basifixed hairs or glabrous; anthers not mucronate of 
gland-tipped ;— [p. 365 
{Pod dehiscent by both sutures :— [p. 363] ‘ 
SLeaf-rachis ending in a bristle or tendril; leaflets even-Pit 
nate :—[p, 361 
‘Stems herbaceous; flowers axillary solitary, or T 
. 
**Style not bearded ; wings free from staminal tube; les a. 
toothed ; seeds with a slender funicle; pod turgid {p. 361) s 
