“ includes also nearly the same proportion of the Australian 
* Leguminose. 
“ Papilionaceee admit of subdivision into several natural 
“‘ sections, but in Terra Australis they may be divided al- 
“most equally, and without violence to natural affinities, 
into those with connected and those with distinct stamina. 
“ The decandrous part of the whole order bears a very 
‘small proportion to the diadelphous, which in Persoon’s 
“ synopsis is to the former as nearly 30 to 1, while in Terra 
“ Australis, as I have already stated, the two tribes are 
“ nearly equal. 
“This remarkably increased proportion of Decandrous 
*‘ Papilionaceous plants, forms another peculiarity in the 
vegetation of New Holland, where their maximum exists in 
“the principal parallel. ‘They are not so generally spread 
“ over the whole of Terra Australis, as the leafless Acacie ; 
“ for although they extend to the southern extremity of Van 
“‘ Diemen’s Island, they are even there less abundant, and 
“very few species have been observed within the tropic. 
« Papilionaceous plants with distinct stamina do not in fact 
« form a very natural subdivision of the whole order, though 
“ those of New Holland, with perhaps one or two excep- 
“tions, may be considered as such: this Australian portion, 
“‘ however, forms nearly three fourths of the whole section, 
“at present known: the remaining part, consisting of 
“ genera, most of which are very different, both from 
* each other and from those of Terra Australis, are found 
“at the Cape of Good Hope, in zequinoctial and north 
* Africa, in the different regions of America, in New Zea- 
“land, in India, very sparingly in North Asia, and. lastly 
* in the South of Europe, where, however, only two species 
«< have been observed, namely, Anaayris feetida and Crrcis 
* Siliquastrum; but the latter having a straight embryo 
“and a habit approaching to that of Bauuinta, rather be- 
“ longs to Lomentacew.” 
