titi LEGUU1MO&4B. (PULBE FAMILY.) 



lobe- of the caranck subulate, varying in length ; seeds hairy ; radical spikes 

 bracted. — Mountain! of Goorgia and northward. May. — Stems 4' -6' high, 

 from a long prostrate base. Flowers ^' long, purple. 



Order 40. KRAMERIACE/E. (ttn ataxy Family.) 



Silky-pubescent herbs or shrubs, with diffuse stems, alternate leaves, and 

 irregular hypogynous purplish flowers, on axillary 2-bracted and jointed 



peduncles. — Sepals 5, colored, deciduous. Petals 5, shorter than the 

 sepals; the ;> posterior ones, Kong-clawed, often united; the 2 anterior 

 broad, sessile and fleshy. Stamens 4, the posterior ones distinct or united. 

 Anthers 2 -celled, opening by a terminal pore. Ovary 1 -celled, 2-ovuled. 

 Fruit 1-seeded. wooily, indehiscont, armed with hispid prickles. Albumen 

 none. Radicle concealed in the cotyledons. 



1. KRAMERIA, Locfl. 

 Characters of the order. 



1. K. lanceolata, Torr. Herbaceous; stems slender, prostrate, mostly 

 branching ; bines lanceolate or linear, acute; peduncles longer than the leaves, 

 leafy -biachd above the middle ; claws of the posterior petals, and stamens, 

 united ; fruit globose, downy, armed with few strong spreading spines. — Tampa 

 Bay, South Florida, and westward. — Root long and woody. Stems 1° long. 



Order 47. L.EGUMINOSJE. (Pulse Family.) 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with chiefly compound alternate stipulate leaves, 

 and papilionaceous or regular perigynous or hypogynous flowers. — Sepals 

 a, more or less united. Totals o, rarely fewer, or none. Stamens niona- 

 delphous, diadelphous, or distinct. Ovary simple, free, forming a legume 

 in fruit. Seeds without albumen. Leaves almost always with entire mar- 

 gins. 



Synopsis. 



Suborder I. PAPILIOXACL.L. Corolla of o (rarely fewer) irreg- 

 ular petals, inserted into the base of the calyx, rarely perigynous, imbri- 

 cated in the bud, mostly papilionaceous: viz. one upper and exterior, 

 termed the vexillum or standard : two lateral, called wing* : and two lower 

 and Interior, oftener united by their contiguous margins, forming together 

 the/"/. Stamens 10 (rarely 5), separate, monadelphous. or diadelphous 

 (9 & 1. or 5 & ■"-). Legume 1 -celled (sometimes partly 2-celled by the in- 

 troversion of the Butures), or several-celled by transverse partitions. Style 



Simple. Cotyledons thick. 



Triiif. T. IiOTK.lv C.rull.i pnj.ilioinrpous. Stamens 10 (except No. S). Legume con- 

 tinuous (not joint.-.!). Cotyledon! leafy in germination. — Stems (except No. 12) not 

 twining nor climbing. 



