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XXIX. CORIARIACEJE 
axis ; styles 5, simple, long, thick ; ovule, solitary. Fruit of 5 
small, distinct, one-seeded, prominently ridged carpels, enclosed 
within the much enlarged, purple, succulent petals and separated 
from one another by the projecting petal-keels. (Fig. 35.) 
Simla, common ; March, April. — Temperate Himalaya, 3000-7000 ft. — 
China. 
Native name Masuri ; this shrub is said to have been abundant on the site 
of Mussoorie, and to have given its name to the station. 
XXX, LEGUMINOS^E 
Herbs, shrubs or trees, of extremely varied habit and appearance. 
Leaves simple or compound, alternate, rarely opposite or whorled, 
stipulate. Flowers usually 2-sexual. Sepals 5, rarely fewer, 
often unequal, usually combined in a 5-toothed calyx. Petals 5, 
rarely fewer, dissimilar or nearly alike, free or more or less united, 
usually longer than the calyx and inserted at the bottom of its 
tube. Stamens 10, rarely fewer, numerous only in Acacia and 
Albizzia, free or variously united, commonly hypogynous ; fila- 
ments thread-like, sometimes dilated towards the tip ; anthers 
2-celled, usually uniform. Ovary free, 1-celled ; style simple, 
slender, continuous with the ovary ; stigma usually small and 
terminal ; ovules several or many, rarely only 1 or 2. Fruit a 
pod, usually dry and opening by 2 similar valves, in a few genera 
ultimately breaking up into indehiscent, one-seeded joints ; seeds 
attached alternately along the upper margin of the valves, some- 
times separated from one another by partitions or by constrictions 
of the pod. — Leguminous plants constitute a vast Order spread 
over nearly the whole globe, Papilionacese being generally dis- 
persed, Csesalpiniese and Mimosese most abundant in the warmer 
regions. 
Many species are cultivated, either for their flowers or as forage plants or 
for their seeds which are used as food by both man and beast ; among the 
last the two following species are cultivated near Simla in addition to those 
subsequently mentioned. 
Cicer arietinum. A herb. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets about 13. Flowers 
pea-like, blue-purple or white. _ Pod 1 in. ; seeds 2. The common gram. 
Cajanus indicus. A shrub. Leaves of 3 sessile leaflets. Flowers pea-like, 
yellow, veined with red. Pod 2-3 in. ; seeds 3-5. The arhardhal. 
The False Acacia, Bobinia Pseud-acacia, a N. American tree, common in 
Britain, is often planted at Simla. Leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets entire. Flowers 
white, fragrant, in pendulous racemes. 
