266 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [ Virgilia. 
5-toothed. Petals of equal length; vexillum obovate or roundish, erect 
i or spreading; alz oblong, clawed, eared at base 3 carina obtuse, straight, 
i - its petals imbricating and connate in the middle, free above. Stamens 10, 
i free, glabrous. Ovary subsessile, many ovuled ; style slightly curved, 
glabrous. Legume moniliform, indehiscent, Wingless, several-seeded. 
Endl. Gen. 6738. DC. Prod. 2, p. 95. 
Trees, shrubs, or herbs chiefly from the tropics of Asia and America. Leaves 
impari-pinnate, plurijugate, the terminal leaflet remote from the last pair. Racemes 
axillary or terminal, mostly simple. Flowers white, blue, or yellow. The name is 
an alteration of the Arabic Sophera, 
1. S, nitens (Benth. !); shrubby (or arborescent %), densely silky- 
tomentose in all parts, with close-pressed, glossy hairs ; leaflets 5-7, 
aS elliptic-oblong, obtuse 3 Tacemes terminal, elongating, many-flowered ; 
” bracts subulate, nearly equalling the pedicels ; petals glabrous. 
Has. Near Port Natal, 7. Williamson! (Herb. D.) 
Stems and branches unknown 
_ Calyx widely campanulate, shortly 2-lipped, the u lip bifid, the 
lower trifid. Vezxillum suborbicular, drenoly refit F ali otset 
carina incurved, rostrate. Stamens To, free. Ovary sessile, villous, 
several-ovuled; style glabrous. Leguine coriaceous, compressed, tomen- 
tose, many-seeded, stuffed between the seeds, the sutures very obtuse. 
E. Mey.! Comm. p. 1. Endl. Gen, 6741. DC. Prod. 2. p. 98, ex pte, 
_ Only one species known. YJ. grandis, E. Mey. is Milletia Caffra, Meisn. Name 
in honour of the poet Virgil, 
1. V. Capensis (Lam. Ill. ‘t. 326 f. 2); DC. Prod. 2. p. 98. Bot, 
E. Mey. Comm. p. 1. Sophora Capensis, 
Berg. Cap. 142. Hypocalyptus Capensis, 
odalyria Capensis, Andr. Rep. t. 347. : 
Xc., throughout the colony, erb. Th., Hk. oD. ee 
¢ Keur of the me eri am Sand: why Geen 
>; leaflets lin mucronate, coriaceous, the 
0 
few or several 
Valves cohering 
6740. : 
