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SOPHORA TETRAPTERA. WlNGED-PODDED 



SOPHORA. 



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CZcj/jt <zk^ Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



- • Generic Char a tier. 



Calyx 5-dentatus, fuperne gibbus. Cor. papilionacea: alis 

 longitudine vexilli. Legumen. 



Specific Charafler and Synonyms. 



SOPHORA ictraptera foliis pinnatis foliolis numerofis 

 (17 — 19) lanceolato-oblongis villofiufculis: 

 leguminibus membranaceo-quadrangulis, caule 

 arboreo. Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 43. 



SOPHORA tetrapiera. Job. Miller ic. tab. 1. 



The magnificent and highly curious fpecies of Sophora 

 here represented, is one of the many plants difcovered by 

 Sir Joseph Banks at New-Zealand, wwjure it forms a tree 01 

 a confiderable fize. - V 



A finer fight can fcarcely be imagined than a tree of this 

 fort, extending to a great breadth on a wall with a weftern 

 afpecl, in the Apothecaries Garden at Chelfea, where it was 

 planted by Mr. Forsyth about the year 1774, and which at 

 this moment (April 28, 179/1) is thickly covered with large 

 pendulous branches of yellow, I had almoft faid golden flow- 

 ers ; for they have a peculiar richnefs, which it is impoflible 

 to reprefent in colouring ; in the winter care is taken to cover 

 it carefully with mats, lead it mould fuffer from any extraor- 

 dinarily fevere weather. 



It ufually produces a few feed veflels of an uncommon form» 

 having four wings, whence its name of tetraptera ; from fom c 

 of the feeds which have ripened in this country plants have 

 been railed, and by thefe the plant is found to be propagated 

 with the molt fuccefs; it may alfo be increafed by cutting s 

 and layers. 



