SoPHORA, LEGUMINOSyE. 389 



Ion" as the oblong wings: keel-petals distinc-t, equal and similar to the 

 win^s, straight, obtuse. Ovarj- on a short stipe, many-ovuled : style 

 filiform, incurved : stigma minute. Legume unknown. — A low and stout 

 much-branchoil slirub ; the branciies somewhat spiny. Leaves sessile, 

 sempervirent, small, 3-f jliolate. Stipules none, or very caducous. Flowers 

 (purple) axillary, subsessile. 



P. moiitana (Nutt.l mss.) 



" Summits of the mountains in the vicinity of St. Barbara, California. — 

 A low densely branched slirub, spreading hori/ontally six or eight feet in 

 extent: brandies brownish -gray ; the wood while: the brancldels usually 

 terminating in stout spinous ]5oints. Leaves crowded : leaflets sessile, 

 scarcely an inch in length, ol)long-ciinoit()nn or oblanceolate, thick, sliglitly 

 pubescent when young, i)ale beneath. Flowers solilarj^ in the axils of the 

 leaves at the extremity of the branches, about tiie size of those of Baptisia 

 tinctoria. Calj^x short, very slightly toothed. Stamens distinct, somewhat 

 persistent, equal. Ovary linear, ])ubescent." Nuttall. — We have also 

 specimens from Mr. Douglas's Californian collection, which, like those of 

 Mr. Nuttall, want the fruit. Although alhcd to Anagyris, it probably forms 

 a distinct genus. 



2. Leaves unequally idnnate {simple in Cercis) : trees or shrubs. 

 (Sophorese, Benth.) 



51. SOPHORA. Linn. ; R. Br. in horl. Kew. : DC. prodr. 2. p. 95, 



Sophora & Styphnolobium, Schott ; Benth. comm. Leg. 



Calj'x broadly campanulate, obliquely tnmcate or somewhat 5-toothed at 

 the summit, often somewhat turbinate or obconic at the base. Vexillum 

 obovate or roundish, about the length of the other petals: keel obtuse, nearly 

 straight, the petals somewhat united below the apex. Ovary nearly sessile, 

 linear : ovules numerous : style nearly straight or incurved : stigma minute. 

 Legume moniliform, indehisccnt, (drj' or fleshy,) not winged. Radicle 

 usually inflexed or incurved. — Trees, slirubs, or sometimes herbaceous plants, 

 with unequally pinnate leaves. Stipules subulate or none. Racemes 

 axillar}'- or terminal, sometimes paniculate. Bracts subulate, minute, often 

 caducous. 



§ 1. Calyx campanulate, rarely someicliat turbinate at the base : vexillum 

 erect or a little spreading, entire or slightly emarginate : stamens not 

 exserted : legume dry : seeds subgJobose, not strophiolate : radicle slightly 

 incurved: stipules none. — Eusophora, Benth. 



1. S. iomentosa (Liinn.) : arborescent; leaflets 15-19, roundish-oval, very 

 obtuse, canescently tomentose on both sides (as also the calyx) ; raceme 

 terminal, elongated. DC. — Linn. spec. 1. p. 373; Lam. ill. t. 375,/. 2; 

 DC. prodr. 2. p. 95. S. occidentalis, Linn. spec. (ed. 2.) 1. p. 533; 

 Swartz, obs. bof. ]). 154. S. littoralis, Schrader ; DC. I. c. 



0. truncata : calvx somewhat obliquely truncate, the margin entire ; leaf- 

 lets tapering at the base, glabrous above when old, canescently tomentose 

 beneath ; vexillum emarginate. 



