The flower, you will notice, is shaped very like the flower of a pea, and indeed it belongs to the same family, called the Papilionaceae or butterfly family, because the flowers look something like an insect flying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) syn: C. intermedia Kotschy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) syn: Voandzeia subterranea (L.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) syn: Vigna pseudolablab Harms, Vatovaea biloba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Labiatae, and Papilionaceae, are the predominant forms, and mostly of the same type: I observe a tendency among Boragineae to have cup-shaped nuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

The groundnut, Arachis hypogaea, also known as the peanut or earthnut, is botanically a member of the Papilionaceae, largest and most important member of the Leguminosae.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Oil Plants and their Potential Use] Reference

Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) syn: C. cannabina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) syn: V. caesia Chiov.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) syn: V. sinensis (L.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) syn: Dolichos lablab L.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

"I thought I had found out what puzzled us in Coronilla varia: in most of the Papilionaceae, when the tenth stamen is free, there is nectar in the staminal tube, and the opening caused by the free stamen enables the bee to reach the nectar, and in so doing the bee fertilises the plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

I have never printed a word that I can remember about orchids and papilionaceous plants being few in islands on account of rarity of insects; and I remember you screamed at me when I suggested this a propos of Papilionaceae in New Zealand, and of the statement about clover not seeding there till the hive-bee was introduced, as I stated in my paper in "Gard.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

Papilionaceae (Fabaceae).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Leguminosae (Papilionaceae).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Family: Papilionaceae (pa-pil-ee-uh-NAY-see-ee) (Info) / Fabaceae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Find Me A Cure] Reference