Leguminosae. 
seeds, or slightly compressed, coriaceous, often four winged, fleshy or woody, usually 
indehiscent; seeds ovate or globo <e Trees or shrubs, rarely meter! herbs with impari- 
pinnate leaves; leaflets sage smal] and numerous; flow wers yellow or white, rarely purple, 
in simple terminal racemes or En! forming a terminal panicle. 
Only one species found in the Hawaiian Islands. The genus consists of more 
than twenty-five species, distributed over the warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
Trees or shrubs, distributed from Western Thibet to Ceylon, China and Japan, 
Siberia, Texas, California, South America, New Zealand, Bourbon, and one on 
our islands. S. tomentosa is a tropical cosmopolitan, and is found in all the 
islands of the South Seas, including New Guinea. 
Sophora chrysophylla Seem. 
Maman. 
(Plates 72, 73, 74.) 
gilenge a Seem. in Flora Vit. (1873) 66;—H. Mann Proe. Am, Acad 
T (1866) 164, et Fl. Haw. Isl. (1867) 192;—Hbd, Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 108;— 
a Cast. Il. Fl. Ins. Mar. Pacif. VI (1890) a —Edwardsia sage faa 
Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. IX (1808) 302 t. 26, f. 1;—Ker. Bot. Reg. t. 738;— 
E. 
DC. Prodr, 2 (1825) 97 ;—Endl. Fl. — doar: no. a, —A, Gray U. S, E. 
arenes 459;—Wawra in Flora eee 
You 
leaflets apevate oblong. 20 to 36; mm x 8 to 12 mm, obtuse, often retuse, with a ereous 
P 
curved, the suberect alae and carina nearly as long; stam 8 he carina; ovary 
tomentose; po 5 em 1 mm wide, often deeply constricted between the seeds, 
The Mamani is a tree of 20 to 40 feet in height, with a ian reaching some- 
times 2 feet in diameter. It is vested in a light-brown corrugated bark of a 
half inch in thickness. The leaves are 5 to 6 inches long, and have from 6 to 10 
pairs of leaflets. The flowers are a bright yellow, and are arranged in droop- 
ing racemes, which are either terminal or lateral. 
The Mamani, which may be found on all the islands with the exception of 
Oahu and Molokai, grows from almost sea level up to nearly 10, 000 feet elevation. 
It inhabits the high mountains of Hawaii, Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, and Hua- 
lalai up to 10,000 feet, where it forms the upper forest zone together with 
shrubby Composites, such as Raillardia arborea and R. struthioloides and other 
plants peculiar to these regions. On Kauai it never grows to a tree, while on the 
slopes of Mauna Loa, on Hawaii, near the voleano of Kilauea, it reaches its best 
development. Trees of 40 feet in height are not uncommon at an elevation of 
feet. In North Kona, on the slopes of Hualalai on the lava fields just 
below Huehue, it is about 2 to 4 feet high, branching from the base, and does 
not resemble the fine trees which may be found higher up at 7000 to 8000 feet 
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