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ORDER LVI. LEGUMINOSZ. 
Trees shrubs or herbaceous plants: leaves alternate, usually 
trifoliate or pinnated, with stipules at the base of the petiole 
‘and at the hase of each leaflet: pedicels generally articulated: 
calyx 5-partite, toothed or cleft, with the odd segment anterior : 
segments often unequal and variously combined: petals 5, or 
less by abortion or wanting, inserted into the base of the calyx, 
usually unequal, the odd petal superior: stamens definite or 
indefinite, perigynous or hypogynous, distinct, monadelphous or 
diadelphous: anthers 2-celled, versatile: ovary 1-celled, almost 
always solitary: style and stigma simple: fruit a legume or a 
drupe: seed solitary or several, occasionally with an aril: albu- 
men none. 
TRIBE I. PAPILIONACEA. 
Sepals imbricated or slightly valvate in estivation: corolla pa- 
pilionaceous, irregular : stamens inserted into the bottom of the 
calyx or perigynous: leaves simple or simply compound, never 
twice or thrice pinnated. 
GENUS I. SOPHORA. 
Decandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From the Arabic word Sophero, the name of a tree with 
pea flowers. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx 5-toothed, campanulate: petals of the keel 
usually combined at the apex: legume moniliform, not winged, 
several seeded. 
(1) S. erauca. (Lesch. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 179.—Dec. prod. II. p. 95. 
Engrav. Wight’s Spicil. I. t. 51.—Icon. t. 979. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub: leaves irregularly pinnated ; leaflets 19~ 
23, elliptical, mucronate, upper side glaucous and velvety, under 
villous: racemes terminal, crowded: flowers middle-sized, white 
tinged with rose. 
Neilgherries, flowering nearly all the year. 
