SophoraJ] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 251 



densely pubescent ; teeth distinct, deltoid. Corolla bright yellow, 3 times the length 

 of the calyx. Pod \ in. broad, sublignose, finely downy, 6-12-seeded, the seeds close 

 and constrictions slight except where the ovules do not develop. 



Edwardsia, Salisb. Pod furnished with four distinct wings. Key- 

 serlingia, Bunge. 



9. S. mollis, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5335 ; flowers smaller developed before 

 the leaves in short crowded racemes. Edwardsia mollis, Royle'Ill. t. 32, fig. 2. 

 Sophora Houghiana, Wall. Cat. 5336 B. 



Plains and low hills of the north-west ; HAZARA and the SALT RANGE to KUMAON 

 and NPPAL, ascending to 4000 ft. 



A low spineless shrub, with finely grey-downy branches, the flowers developed 

 first in copious short simple ascending racemes, the leaves appearing with the fruit. 

 Leaves % ft. long ; leaflets 21-25, rigidly coriaceous, pale, grey green, ^-J in. long, 

 obtuse, emarginate, prominently veined, finely grey-downy. Racemes 2-3 in. long ; 

 pedicels equalling or exceeding the calyx. Calyx ^\ in., very oblique, finely grey- 

 downy. Corolla yellow, |-| in. Pod glabrous, 3-4 in. long, 5-6-seeded, the joints 

 with four distinct crustaceous wings and separated by distinct constrictions. 



VAB. hydaspidis ; leaves and calyx more densely and persistently silky, flowers 

 larger. Salt Range, Punjab. 



10. S. interrupta, Bedd. Ic. PI Ind. Or. t. 165; Fl. Sylv. 90; 

 Anal. Gen. t. 12, fig. 6 ; flowers larger developed at the same times as the 

 leaves in their axils. Edwardsia maderaspatana, Wight Ic, t. 1054, as regards 

 the fruit. 



Hills of MYSORE, alt. 2500-3000 ft., Wight, Seddome. 



A tall erect shrub. Leaves -f ft. long ; leaflets 19-29, obtuse, emarginate, f-l^- 

 in. long, thinner than in the last, with a few obscure hairs beneath. Racemes dis- 

 tinctly peduncled, shorter than the leaves ; pedicels twice the length of the calyx. 

 Calyx | in., very oblique, obscurely silky. Corolla bright yellow, -f| in. long ; 

 blade of standard round. Pod just like that of 8. mollis. This is doubtless the 

 plant intended by Wight, but all except the fruit in the plate appears to be drawn 

 from 8. glauca. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



A plant from the top of Parasnath, in Eehar, seen in pod only, doubtless a new 

 species, comes nearest to S. Wightii, but the 13-15 leaflets are obtuse, with thinner 

 texture and finer veining, and the joints of the fruit smaller, with a tendency to 

 dehisce down the sutures. 



93. CAIaPURNIA, E. Meyer. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves odd-pinnate, with numerous leaflets. Floivers 

 yellow, racerned or panicled. Calyx broadly campanulate ; teeth deltoid. 

 Corolla much exserted ; petals equal in length ; keel obtuse, rather incurved, its 

 petals cohering. Stamens free ; anthers small, oblong, versatile. Ovary linear 

 stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma capitate. Pod strap-shaped, flat, 

 membranous, many-seeded, indehiscent, with a narrow wing down the dorsal 

 suture. DISTEIB. Species 6, the others Cape and Abyssinian. 



Virgttia capensis, Lam., a well-known Cape plant, allied to Calpurnia, is included 

 in Hohenacker's Nilghiry plants, but is only cultivated in India. 



^.1. C. aurea, Baker in Oliv. Flor. Trap. Afric. ii. 252 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. 89 ; 

 Anal. Gen. t. 12, fig. 5. Virgilia aurea, Lam.\ DC. Prodr. ii. 98; W. $ A. 

 Prodr, 179. Robinia Heynei, Wall. Cat. 5653. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, near Courtallum, and on the Denkinacottah hills in moun- 

 tain jungl DISTRIB. Abyssinia. 



