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Tribe 8. PnASEOLEiB. — Herbs, usually twining or prostrate, 
rarely erect or shrubby at the base, very rarely trees. Leaves 
pinnately 3-£oliolate or 1-foliolate, rarely 5 or 7-foliolate, with stipelli© 
(digitate in Flemingia and a very few species of other genera, stipellaa 
minute or none in HhynGliosia and its allies). Upper stamen usually 
free, at least at the base or all but the base. Anthers uniform or 
nearly so (except in Mueuna, in which they are alternately longer and 
erect, and shorter versatile and often bearded). Pod not articulate, 
2-valved. Examples: Phaseolus, Qanamlia^ QJycine^ Hardenhergia^ 
the Bushman’s Sarsaparilla; Frythrina^ the Cork or Coral tree; 
Canaoalia gladhtay Sword Bean, &e. ; all plentiful in gardens. 
Tribe 9. Daliiebgte.T3. — Trees or woody climbers. Leaves 
pinnate, with 5 or more leaflets or sometimes 1 leaflet, vary rarely 3. 
Stipella; none or small and subulate. Stamens all united in a sheath 
or tube or into two parcels of 5, very rarely the upper one free. Pod 
indehiscent. Examples : Lonchocarpas^ Bonyamia. The first is a 
common woody climbing plant of the Brisbane Biver bank ; the other 
is a tree very plentiful in Tropical Queensland anil in plantations about 
Brisbane. 
Tribe lU. Sophore-®. — T rees, woody climbers, or rarely tall 
shrubs or almost herbaceous. Leaves pinnate, with several leaflets, 
without stipellsB, or reduced to a large leaflet. Stamens all free or 
scarcely united at the base. Examples : Sophora, Castanospermmn^ 
the Moreton Bay Oliestnut or Beau tree. A species of the first-named 
genus is often to be met with on the borders of scrubs ; another forms 
a small tree on the tropical coast. 
Tribe 11. Swartzieje. — Tall shrubs or trees. Leaves pinnate, with 
many or reduced to 1 leaflet. Petals fl, 1, or none. Stamens indefinite 
or rarely 10, free. Pod not articulate. So far as known, no repre- 
sentative of this tribe is to be seen in Queensland. 
Suborder II. CiESALPINIEA:. 
Flowers usually 5-merous, very rarely l-merous or 3-merous ; 
the sepals united at the base into a short tube, lined by the disk, bearing 
at its margin the petals and stamens, rarely forming a campanulate 
or tubular calyx with the stamens near the base, as in Papilionace^e, 
the free part of the sepals or lobes of the calyx imbricate or rarely 
valvate. Corolla irregular or nearly regular, either with the 5 (or 4 
or 3) petals variously imbricate in the bud, but the upper one never 
outside and usually quite inside, or in some genera some or all of the 
four lower petals wanting. Stamens 10 or fewer, or indefinite, free 
or rarely more or less united, all perfect or several of them reduced 
to staminodia. Ovules anatropous or nearly so. Badicle of the 
embryo short and straight. From this suborder is obtained timber, 
dyes, gains, medicines, and perfumes. 
Tribe 12. ScLEROUORiEiii:.— Leaves impari, or rarely abruptly 
piimutc. Calyx segments usually divided to the disk, imbricate. 
Petals 5, slightly unequal. Ovary stipitate. Ovules 3 or many. Ho 
representatives to be seen in Queensland. 
Tribe 13. Euca^sAUPiNiEJE. — Leaves all bipinnate or rarely 
bipinnate and simply pinnate on the same plant (see Gleditsohia). 
Calyx divided to the disk. Petals usually 5, subequal or but slightly 
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