» Calpurnia.} XLVI. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 253 
12-20-flowered_erecto-patent axillary racemes about equalling the 
leaves. Pedicels $8 in. long, slender, spreading, with a minute ovate 
bract at the base. Calyx 4—5 lines deep, membranous, obliquely cam- 
panulate, glabrous or slightly silky, the teeth reaching a third ‘of the 
way down, the upper blunt, the lower ones deltoid. Corolla bright 
yellow, twice as long as the calyx. Pod 3-4 in. long, 3 in. broad, 
membranous, short-stalked, acute, the valves finally glabrous, the upper 
suture with a narrow erect wing under 1 line broad. Seeds 5—6.— Vir- 
gilia aurea, Lam., DC. Prod. ii. 98; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 234. Poda- 
lyria aurea, Walld. Sp. Pl. ii. 502. Robinia subdecandra, L’ Herit. Laid 
t. 75. Calpurnia lasiogyne, E. Meyer, Com. 2; Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap, 
li. 267. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit. Roth! 
Native name, Hezautz. A showy shrub, often cultivated. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, and Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
86. SOPHORA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i, 555. 
Calyx-teeth short. Standard obovate or orbicular, erect or pera t 
wings oblong, oblique; keel oblong, nearly straight, its petals usually 
imbricated or coherent along the back. Stamens perigynous or nearly 
hypogynous, free or rarely slightly connate at the ase ; anthers versa- 
tile. Ovary short-stalked, multiovulate ; style incurved ; stigma minute, 
terminal. Pod moniliform, terete or slightly compressed, coriaceous 
and indehiscent in our species. Cotyledons thick, the radicle sometimes 
Straight and short, sometimes longer and inflexed.—Trees or shrubs 
with imparipinnate leaves. 
A moderately small genus, dispersed through the Tropics. 
Calyx with the stamens frem the base. 
Petals very narrow, not imbricated BP ey eee ae 8 
Petals imbricated, those of the keel connate 
Calyx with the stamens from a third of the way up 
1. S.? zambesiaca, Buker. A tree of moderate size, the branchlets 
slender, woody, terete, finely grey-downy. _ Petioles } in. long, rachis 
3 or 4 in., both grey-downy ; leaflets 11—15, the lateral ones alternate, 
on petiolules a line long, the upper ones oblong, 14-1} in. long, 
bluntish, the base slightly rounded, subcoriaceous, upper surtace glossy 
with raised veinlets, ower paler, the veinlets also raised, the midrib a 
little downy. Flowers in 12—20-flowered axillary and terminal racemes 
14-2 in. long, the lateral ones in our specimen simple, the terminal one 
slightly compound. Pedicels 14-2 lines long, downy, not bracteated. 
Calyx campanulate, truncate, grey-downy, } in. broad and deep. Corolla 
4 in. long, the petals distant, the standard } in. and the other petals 
not more than a line broad. Ovary stipitate, linear, densely grey-silky, 
with 4 or 5 ovules. Fruit a 1-seeded drupe. 
South Central. Highlands of the Batoka country, Dr. Kirk! : 
This does not agree with Sophora in the petals, but we have not seen good flowers, 
. S. zambesiaca. 
2. S. tomentosa. 
3. S. oligophylla. 
