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Order XLVII. LEGUMINOS^. 
Herbs, shrubs often climbing, and trees. Leaves stipulate 
usually alternate, pinnate or digitate, rarely simple; rachis in 
climbers often ending in a tendril. Inflorescence axillary, leaf- 
opposed or terminal, racemose or panicled, with bracts and brac- 
teoles. Flowers usually irregular, bisexual. Sepals 5, connate or 
free, often unequal. Petals 5, fewer to o, by abortion, usually 
free, unequal. Stamens normally 10, rarely fewer or indefinite, 
perigynous or nearly hypogynous; filaments free or connate. 
Ovary free; ovules 1 to many on the ventral suture; style simple; 
stigma capitate or oblique. Pod usually dry, dehiscent, or inde- 
hiscent, 1- to many-seeded, rarely baccate. Species about 8000, 
whole world, divided into 3 sub-orders, (A) Papilionaceae, 
(B) Caesalpiniese and (C) Mimosese (Pram, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
lxvi. (2), No. 1, p. 21). 
(A) Papilionacese. Herbs, climbing or erect, shrubs or trees. 
Flowers irregular. Calyx gamosepalous beyond the disc. Petals 
imbricate, upper one erect, spreading (standard), 2 lateral free 
parallel horizontal (wings), 2 lower connate into a boat-shaped 
organ (keel). Stamens 10. Disc turbinate or cylindric. 
i. Vicie^e. Climbers, slender. 
Leaves even-pinnate; flowers racemose; stamens 
9 and 1 abortive; pod dehiscent; seeds red 
with a black spot . . . . . 1. Abrus 
ii. GenistejE. Shrublets or herbs. Stamens monadelphous; pod dehis¬ 
cent not jointed; leaves simple or trifoliate. 
Anthers uniform; keel-petals scarcely cohering; 
prostrate annual . . . . .2. Rothia 
Erect shrubby herbs; anthers dimorphous; keel- 
petals firmly cohering; racemes terminal; 
pods turgid . . . . . • 3 > Crotalaria 
iii. Cajaneje. Shrubs or climbers. Leaves gland-dotted below; leaves 
trifoliate (except Flemingia and Eriosema unifoliate). Upper stamen free. 
Climbers; seeds 3 to 8. 
Pods with 6 to 8 seeds, not depressed between 
seeds ....... 
Pods with 3 to 6 seeds, depressed between 
each ....... 
Shrubs; pods 1- to 2-seeded, turgid. 
Slender twiggy plant; leaves 1-foliate narrow 
linear; corolla exsert .... 
Bushes; leaves 1- to 3-foliate, broad; corolla 
not exsert ...... 
4. Dunbaria 
5. Atylosia 
6. Eriosema 
7. Flemingia 
iv. Phaseole/e. Leaves trifoliate not gland-dotted; petals equal; 
stamens diadelphous. 
Style bearded below stigma; slender climbers, 
rarely bushes; pod many-seeded. 
Stigma oblique. 
Keel spiral 
8. Phaseolus 
