PAPILIONACE^. 123 



pinnateiy veined, middle one obovate, cuneate, lateral 



more oblong and oblique- Heads of flowers terminal 



about % inch across, peduncled ^ to ij^ inches above 



the last leaf, but often with a pair of stipule-like bracts 



}4> inch below; bracts Y^ by i/io inch lanceolate acute, 



hairy. Calyx densely hairy, the hairs often springing 



from large yellowish bulbous bases, and with also small 



dark red glands ; teeth more than twice the tube, linear 



lanceolate, shaggy especially round the edges. Pod not 



much exserted, purple, standard hairy and glandular 



on the back, auricled. Pods 1/5 inch shorter than the 



calyx, ovoid or sub-globose, pointed, glabrous, veined ; 



seed one only as a rule, ellipsoid, quite filling the pod, 



dark brown, smooth. Wight Ic. 987. 



" Lidcot valley near Kodaikanal on rocks." Bourne 893. 

 On the Nilgiris at Pykara, flowering September. Confined to 

 the Western Ghats but rare in the Bombay presidency. 



In the F.B.I, this is placed as a variety of F. vestita, Benth. apparently 

 because named by Wight F. procumbens by a slip which he corrected in 

 a manuscript in the herbarium at Kew while F. procumbens Roxb, = F. 

 vestita Benth. The plant is restored to specific rank by Cooke in the 

 Bombay flora, from which this explanation and the description of the 

 pod is taken. 



SOPHOR A. F.B.I. 50 xcii. 



Shrubs with pinnate leaves, very small calyx teeth, 



stamens all free (an unusual thing in this family), 



and the pod constricted between the seeds and usually 



not opening. 



Sophora glauca Leschenaiilt ; F.B.L ii 249, XCII 4. 

 Height 6 to 12 feet ; branchlets terete, densely pubes- 

 cent. Leaflets ten to fifteen pairs plus a terminal one, 

 Yz by i/s inch, oblong, obovate-elliptic, blue-green or 

 olive-green, softly hairy on both sides, with strong mid- 

 rib produced as a mucro. Flowers in dense terminal 

 racemes with small and very quickly falling linear 

 bracts and bracteoles. Calyx ]4 inch long and broad, 

 with small but distinct teeth, pinkish purple : pedicels 



