108 LEGUMINOSAE. [Sophora. 
Pod flattened, oblong, marked externally with oblique indented lines bet- 
ween the seeds, but hardly rite internally. Seeds subcompressed, 
with a lateral oblong rhaphe. — An erect undershrub. Leaves pinnately 
3-foliolate, without stipellae. Flowers waitin in axillary, not nodose racemes. 
Bracteoles none. 
A single species. 
71.C. Indicus, Spreng. Syst. Veget. LIT, 248. — Stem 3--4 ft. high, covered 
with a short soft tomentum. Leaflets broadly lanceolate or oblong, 11/2 
~—3' long, acute, dotted underneath with resinot sd enCe on petiolules 
of 6’. Stipules lanceolate, caducous. Pihunitos axillary, bearing at the 
lobes subulate, recurved. Pod 2—3‘ long, with an incurved point, more 
or less hairy and glandular. Seeds 4—5, mottled. — Benth. FI. Hongk. 
p- 89. — ¢. Bt DC. — ey tisus Cajan, L. 
Of early introduction; near e dwellings. — Derives from Asia, but is generally 
cultivated for its seaita in pantins toate: the dhal of India. 
Tris—E VII. SOPHOREAE. 
Trees or tall shrubs, rarely herbs. or climbers. Leaves pinnate, with 
5 or more leaflets, rarely reduced to 3 or 1. Stamens all free. Pod 
continuous (not articulate), indehiscent or 2-valvyed, 
19. SOPHORA, L. 
Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-toothed. Standard rather broad. Keel- 
petals equal to or rather longer than the others, scarcely cohering. 
Stamens free. Ovary shortly stalked, with several ovules. Style glabrous, 
with a minute terminal stigma. Pod cylindrical or slightly compressed, 
sa gpane 4-winged, fleshy or hard and woody, contracted between the 
and usually indehiscent. Radicle curyed. — Trees, shrubs, or very 
sale aaa Leaves pinnate, the leaflets usually opposite, with a terminal 
odd one. Stipellae setaceous or wanting. Racemes simple, terminal, or 
several forming a a panicle, 
A genus vate very n us in species, Tha widely scattered over tropical and temperate 
Asia and tropical. sae ie pana act Ameri 
1. 8. chrysophylla, Seem. FI. it p. 66. — A tree, 20—30 ft. high, 
the young ova silky- piceinek Leaves 5—6/ long, with 6—10 pairs 
of leaflets, ets spo oblong, 10—18" x 4—6", obtuse, often retuse, 
vith a cin 
not exceeding 1/4", piisctie wanting. Stucenaete scadiu and lateral, 
‘/2—1" long, tomentose, the pedicels 6—9”, at length recurved. Bracts 
riangular, 11/2“; bracteoles none. Calyx tomentose, 4—5“ high, cup- 
1, the blunt teeth very — the 2 upper ones divided by 
