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edge of the cotyledons.— Leaves simple or simply compound, never 
twice or thrice pinnated. 
SUBTRIBE L—SOPHOREE, Spr. 
Stamens distinct. Legumen without joints. Cotyledons flat, foliaceous during. 
germination. 
I. SOPHORA. Linn. s R. Brown; Lam. ill. t. 325. Ee 
Calyx 5-toothed, campanulate, or somewhat attenuated at the base. Pe- 
tals of the keel usually combined at their apex. Legumen moniliform, not 
winged, several-seeded,— Trees, shrubs, or herbaceous plants. Leaves irre- 
gularly pinnated, often without stipules. Racemes terminal, simple or pani- 
947. (1) S. glauca (Lesch. :) shrubby : leaflets 19-23, elliptical, mucronate, 
upper side glaucous and velvety, under villous: racemes terminal, crowded. 
—DC. prod. 2. p. 95 ; Spr. syst. suppl. p. 170; Wall.! L. n. 5334 ; Wight! 
tat. n. 634.— Neelgherries. A i 
*548. (2) S. tomentosa (Linn. :) arborescent : leaflets 15-19, oval-roundish, 
very obtuse, covered on both sides as well as the calyx with hoary tomen- 
: Tacemes terminal, elongated.— Linn. sp. p. 533; DC. prod. 2. p. 95; 
Spr. syst. 2. p. 846: Lam. ill. t. 325, f. 25 Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 816; in E. I. 
C. mus, tab. 1416; Wail.! L. n. 5333.—8. occidentalis, Linn. sp. p. 533.— 
Rumph. Amb. 4, t. 22. 
umph’s figure is bad, in as far as he represents many of the leaflets acute ; 
but his description is accurate. - 
II. VIRGILIA, Lam. ill. t. 326. 
Calyx unequally 5-cleft, somewhat bilabiate. Corolla papilionaceous ; pe- 
tals about equal: vexillum with the margins not bent back. Stamens quite 
distinct, or shortly united at the base. Stigma beardless. Legume compressed, 
oblong-linear, several-seeded.— Trees or shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnated. 
Owers racemose. 
We adopt this enus as left by De Candolle, but we must remark that it contains 
the types of ed distinet ds That to which P. capensis aes y has the sta- 
um quite distinct at the base ; the keel rostrate as in Crotalaria, and its petals com- 
f ed at the back from the middle to the apex. V. lutea has been separated by Ra- 
Bur, ve under the name Cladrastis lutea. V.intrusa Br. (with which V. syl 
ca., is the same), and P. aurea, Lam., forms a third group or genus, having the 
“ian persistent and shortly combined at the base, the eel obtuse and of two pe- 
als, the T compressed, with a narrow wing or margin along its seminiferous 
Suture, and its valves closely cohering with each other between the : 
9 549. (1) V. aurea (Lam.:) young shoots slightly pubescent: leaflets about 
9r 10 pairs, oval, obtuse, nearly glabrous, usually quite opposite : upper lip 
of the calyx obtusely 2-lobed ; segments of the lower ovate, acutish: keel- 
pur overlapping at the lower margin, distinct : stamens persistent, 9 short 
connected at the very base, the tenth quite distinet : ovary rco t 
Ban Blabrous.—Zam. ill. t. 320. f. 1; DC. prod. 3. p. 98; EM 
tt ; Wight! cat. n. 999.—Robinia subdecandra, L’herit. st. nov. t. 75.—R. 
nr Wall. ! L. n. 5653.—Podalyria aurea, Willd. sp. 2. p. 502.— Courtal- 
We can see no diff hatever between the Indian plant and speci- 
.. Wens before us from Bütopésit girdehs, exp that the flowers of the latter 
_ “Me rather larger and of a deeper yellow. 
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