Calpurnia.'] LEGUMINOSAE. 389 



Pod crisply 4-winged, especially opposite the seeds, much narrowed 

 between them ; standard orbicular with a slender claw ; leaflets more 

 than 19, elliptic, obtuse or emarginate, '75-1 '25 in. long, prominently 

 reticulate above, very slightly pubescent beneath 3. interrupta. 



1. SOPHORA GLAUCA, Lesch. ; F. B. I. ii. 249; W. & A. 179; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 979. Edwardsia maderaspatana, "Wt. Ic. t. 1054, 

 except the pods. 



N. Circars, Mahendragiri Hill in Ganjam, at 3,000 ft. 

 (Fischer and Gage) ; W. Ghats, common on open downs in 

 the Nilgiri Hills, at 5,000 to 8,000 ft. ; Hills of Travancore 

 at Peer made, etc. ; Shevaroy Hills of Salem. 

 A pretty shrub with white pink or purplish flowers. 



2. SOPHORA WIGHTII, Bak. in F. B. I. ii. 250. S. heptaphylla, 

 Wt. le. t. 1155, not of Linn. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri Hills, at about 4,000 ft. 

 A small tree with yellow flowers. 



3. SOPHORA INTERRUPTA, Bedd. Ic. t. 165; F. B. I. ii. 251. 

 Edwardsia maderaspatana, Wt. Ic. t. 1054, pods only. 



Deccan, Hills of Cuddapah and N. Arcot, at 2,500-3,000 ft. 

 (Wight, Beddome). 



A large shrub or small tree, with corky bark, yellow flowers 

 and curiously winged and jointed pod. 



58. Calpurnia, E. Mey. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets many, oppo- 

 site; stipules small; stipels 0. Flowers yellow, in racemes, 

 axillary or panicled at the ends of the branchlets ; bracts very 

 small ; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tube broadly campanulate, the teeth 

 short and broad, the 2 upper subconnate. Corolla much exserted, 

 the petals clawed; standard suborbicular, erect or recurved; 

 wings falcate-oblong ; keel petals incurved, obtuse, cohering at 

 the back. Stamens 10, free ; anthers versatile. Ovary stalked, 

 linear, many-ovuled ; style subulate, incurved ; stigma capitate. 

 Pod linear, flat, membranous, indehiscent, with a narrow wing 

 on the dorsal suture, many-seeded. Seeds oblong, compressed, 

 transverse ; strophiole 0. 



CALPURNIA AUREA, Bak. in F. B. I. ii. 251. Virgilia aurea, 

 Lam. ; W. & A. 179. 

 Deccan, in the Hills of Mysore and Coimbatore and the 



