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Papilionaceous, butterfly-like; applied to the peculiar irregular flower common in Leguminos�.

Peloria, an abnormal return to regularity and symmetry in an irregular flower; commonest in Snapdragon.

An irregular flower is generally distinguished by petals of unequal size or shape.

Nevertheless, there is no decisive evidence either in his figure or his description in support of his opinion as to the nature of the central mass, which might be a distorted condition of the styles, or, as is more probable, a rudimentary and irregular flower.

It is probable that peloria may occur in any habitually irregular flower, and that, if more attention were directed to the subject, illustrations might be obtained from a larger number of natural families than can be done at present.