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In this second class of cases the corolla is papilionaceous, the filaments free, the carpellary leaf on a long stalk provided with stipules, its blade more or less like the usual carpel, with its margins disunited or more commonly united with the ovules in the interior, sometimes represented by a foliaceous, dentate primine only.— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The flowers differ mainly from the Papilionaceæ in being less perfectly papilionaceous, and the stamens are almost entirely distinct (Fig.— Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
Climbers, chiefly papilionaceous, and llianas, bigger than the biggest boa-constrictor, coiled and writhed round the great gloomy trees which rained their darkness below.— To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
It does not belong to the solanaceous, but to the papilionaceous or pea family, and its flowers have a delightful fragrance.— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868
Supposing, as we must do, that all flowers were once of simple and regular forms, like a buttercup or a rose, how did such irregular and often complicated flowers as the papilionaceous or pea family, the labiates or sage family, and the infinitely varied and fantastic orchids ever come into existence?— Darwinism (1889)

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