254 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Sophora. 
and the structure of the fruit is uncertain. The pod has probably often more than one 
seed developed, but whether in that case it is moniliform we cannot say. 
2. S. tomentosa, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 95. A robust erect shrub, 
10-15 ft. high, the branchlets densely argenteous. Petiole an inch 
long; rachis 4—8 in. ; leaflets 15-19, nearly sessile, oblong, 13-2 in. 
long, slightly mucronate, the base slightly rounded, subcoriaceous, both 
sides densely and permanently coated with adpressed grey-silvery tomen- 
tum. Flowers in lax 12—80-flowered axillary and terminal racemes. 
Pedicels }—3 in. long, argenteous, with a lanceolate or linear bract at 
the base. Calyx campanulate, 3—4 lines deep, subtruncate, argenteous. 
Corolla bright yellow, 3 in. deep. Pod 5-6 in. long, with 5-8 coria- 
ceous globes 3—4 lines thick, connected by narrow necks.— 8. crassifolia, 
Duham, and 8. Uittoralis, DC. ii. 95. S, nitens, Schum. et Thonn. PI. 
Guin. 201. 8. inhambanensis, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 26. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Thonning, Vogel! Sierra Leone, Afzelius / 
Mozamb. Distr. Sofala, Dr. Peters! Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 
Extends southward to Natal, and widely diffused through Tropical Asia and America. 
3. S. oligophylla, Buker. A shrub 3-4 ft. high with firm woody 
terete glabrous branches. Petioles 1-1} in. long, firm, glabrous ; rachis 
3 in. long; leaflets 5, oblong, 6-8 in. long, 24-3 in. broad, with a long 
cuspidate point, the base rounded, the lateral ones alternate, on indu- 
rated petiolules 2 lines long, coriaceous, glabrous, the main veins raised 
beneath. Flowers in dense 12—20-tlowered capitate racemes not more 
than an inch deep. Pedicels 2 lines long, slender, fragile, articulated 
above the middle. Calyx 3 in. deep, the stamens adnate to it one-third 
of the way up, and the calyx expanded and curved at the point, from 
which they spring, thin but tough in texture, quite glabrous, with a 
shallow slit at the apex and three small deltoid teeth helow. Corolla 
an inch long, the standard 3 in. broad, completely enveloping the rest 
of the flower, the other petals net more than a line broad, those of the 
keel close but not connate. Pod 8-4 in. long, 6-7 lines thick, dis- 
tinctly stalked, glabrous, carnoso-coriaceous, 2—4-seeded, the necks 
sometimes obliterated. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Mann! 
87. ORMOSIA, Jacks; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 556. 
Calyx campanulate with the two upper teeth subconnate and often 
incurved. Standard suborbicular; wings oblique, obovate-oblong ; keel 
with the petals free. Stamens free, unequal, all or all but one or two 
perfect ; anthers versatile. Ovary subsessile, bi- or multiovulate ; 
style filiform, involute at the apex; stigma introrse, lateral. Pod ob- 
long or rarely linear, compressed, coriaceous. fleshy or woody, not 
winged, 2-valved, continuous or septate between the seeds.— Trees with 
imparipinnate or abruptly pinnate leaves, coriaceous leaflets and flowers 
in copious terminal panicles or racemes. 
