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SUBORDEE I. PAPILIOJfACE.E. 
Flowers 5-merouH. Corolla very irregular, papilionaceous, or 
very rarely nearly regular, the petals 5, imbricate, the upper one, or 
standard, always outside in the bud. Stamens 10, or, very rarely, 
9 or 5. This suborder supplies many important fodders, culinary 
vegetables, dyes, fibres, and medicines. 
Tribe 1. PodaltrxevE.- — S hrubs, rarely herbs and very rarely 
climbers or small trees. Leaves simple or digitately compound, very 
rarely pinnate. Stamens 10, all free or scarcely united at the base. 
Pod not articulate. Esamples: Daviesia, Pulten<sa, or the common 
Dogwood, Jacksonia scoyaria. Species of the two first as well as the 
last named plants are amongst the most common of our Queensland 
shrubs. 
Tribe 2. GENisxEiE. — Shrubs or herbs, very rarely small trees. 
Leaves simple or with 1 or 3 or more digitate leallets, rarely 1- 
foliolate. Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side in 
all the Australian genera (except in a species of Hovea), Example : 
Croialaria, or “ Eattlepod,” common garden plants; some yield 
good fibre, and are cultivated for that purpose. Zupinus, the well- 
known flower ; Oe7tisfaB.rid Spartium, the Brooms ; or Ulex Europmus, 
the Furze bush. 
Tribe 3. Trifoete^. — Herbs, very rarely shrubs. Leaflets 
usually 3, pinnate or rarely digitate, the veiulets extending to the 
edge and often produced into minute teeth. Peduncles, racemes, or 
flower-heads axillary (or apparently terminal by the redaction of the 
upper floral leaves), never leaf-opposed. Upper stamens free (except 
OnoniH^yiho others unitedin a sheath. Pod not articniate. Examples: 
Medicitpo^ Trifoliiim (clover), the Imcerue and Cloveis. 
Tribe 4-. LoTEiE. — Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves pinnate, leaflets 
entire. Flowers capitate or umbellate on axillary peduncles. Upper 
stamen usually free, at least at the base, the others united in a sheath; 
filaments either all or 5 only dilated towards the end. Pod not 
articulate. Example; Lotus, or Birdsfoot Trefoil. ISome of the 
species are pretty border jflants. 
Tribe 5. Gauegea;. — H erbs not twining, shrubs, or rarely trees 
or tall woody climbers. Leaves pinnate, rarely reduced to 3 or 1 
leaflets. Stipelhe none, or setaceous in a few p)inuate genera. 
Stamens 9, iip|)er one usually free, at least at the base, the others 
united in a sheath, very rarely all united ; filaments filiform. Ovules 2 
or more (except in Indigofera linifotii and P^ora]ea). Pod not 
articulate, 2-valved (except iu Psoraded), Examples: Indigofera^ 
Millefiia, Swainso}}a or Darling I’ea. 
Tribe G. Heutsaeeje. — Herbs, or very rarely shrubs or trees. 
Leaves various. Pod separating transversely into 1-seeded articles, 
usually indehiscent, or sometimes reduced to a single 1-seeded 
indehiscent reticulate article. An artificially distinguished group, 
having the foliage and other characters sometimes of the Loteie, 
sometimes of the Galegese, or of the Phaseolcse. Examples: Zornia^ 
Eesmodiumj Lespedeza, or the Earth-nut, Arachis ligpogcsa. 
Tribe 7. Vicieje. — Herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, the common 
petiole usually ending in a tendril or fine point. Flowers and fruit of 
Phaseoleie. Peduncles or racemes axillary. Examples: Pfstfjn, Pea; 
Vida, the Yetch; lathyrus, the Sweet Pea; or Abrus, Crab’s-eyes. 
