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Orpen XXXVI.—CORIARIEA. 
This order consists of one genus and about six species, rather 
widely dispersed, occurring on the shores of the Mediterranean, 
through the mountains of Northern India to Japan, and in 
New Zealand and South America. 
1. CORIARIA. 
Unarmed shrubs with simple opposite 1- to 5-nerved leaves 
and small green axillary flowers. Disk none. Sepals 5, per- 
sistent, membranous on the margin. Petals 5, hypogynous, 
shorter than the sepals, fleshy, keeled on the inside. Stamens 
10. Carpels 5 to 10, distinct, more or less fleshy, with one 
pendulous seed ineach. The name is from cortwm, a covering 
or hide, from the crustaceous carpels. 
1. C. myrtifolia.—This is a handsome shrub from 3 to 6 
feet high. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire, 3-nerved, glabrous 
and glaucous; petioles very short. Flowers inconspicuous. A 
native of the Mediterranean region. 
Orper XXXVII—LEGUMINOSZE. 
Sus-Orprr I.—Papilionaces. 
Trees, shrubs, or herbs of very diverse habit. Leaves bisti- 
pulate, alternate, rarely opposite, pinnate, digitate, or more 
rarely simple; leaflets entire, lobed or toothed, sometimes 
stipellate. Inflorescence various. Flowers irregular, usually 
hermaphrodite. Sepals normally 5, more or less united, the fifth 
lobe anterior, the two posterior sometimes combined, forming 
a bilabiate calyx. Petals 5, unequal, imbricate, erect, rarely 
spreading ; the upper one (standard) free, broad, often reflexed ; 
the two lateral (wings) enclosing and sometimes adhering to 
the two lower (keel), rarely smaller; the two lowest inside the 
others and usually more or less united and curved upwards. 
Stamens 10, perigynous: filaments united in a sheath, or the 
upper one free or rarely all free. Fruit a 1-celled pod, dehis- 
cent along one or both sutures, or rarely indehiscent, sometimes 
transversely septate ; seeds 1 or more, inserted on the ventral 
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