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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



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pinnate; leaflets numerous, roundish, hoary, subtomentose. 

 This is suspected to be a mere variety of the preceding spe- 

 cies. Native of the West Indies. In Jamaica it flowers in 

 May and June, and grows chiefly in low-lands near the sea, 

 where it generally rises to the height of six or seven feet. 



7. Sophora Monosperma ; One-seeded Sophora. Leaves 

 wnequally pinnate; pinnas five-paired; legumes one-seeded; 

 stem arboreous. This is a small tree ten feet high, with a 

 whitish bark, and a hard wood ; corolla large, blue, sweet- 

 smelling. Native of Jamaica, and other West India Islands. 



8. Sophora Japonica ; Shining-leaved Sophora. Leaves 

 pinnate ; leaflets many, ovate, smooth. Stem arboreous ; 

 branches round, even, purplish; flowers on panicled racemed 

 branchlets, white, of the same size as in Indigo. Native of 

 Japan. This may be increased by cuttings. 



9. Sophora Heptaphylla; Seven-leaved Sophora. Leaves 

 pinnate; leaflets seven, smooth ; raceme terminating, long, 

 naked. Native of the East Indies. 



10. Sophora Capensis; Vetch-leaved Sophora. Leaves 

 pinnate ; leaflets numerous, lanceolate, hoary beneath, point- 

 ed; legumes tomentose. Stem shrubby; raceme terminating, 

 composed of white flowers resembling those of Crotalaria, and 

 recurved; seeds from three to six, very hard. Native of the 

 Cape. 



11. Sophora Aurea; Golden-flowered Sophora. Leaves 

 pinnate; leaflets numerous, elliptic, sharpish, very smooth 

 above, almost naked ; legumes smooth ; stem shrubby. This 

 shrub is about the height of a man. The root has the smell 

 and taste of Liquorice. Found in Africa by Bruce. 



12. Sophora Argentea ; Silvery-leaved Sophora. Petioles 

 two-leaved, spinescent; leaflets silky, tomentose, oblong, 

 acute at both ends; legumes flat and one-seeded. Native 

 of Siberia, on sandy hills in the Songarian Desert. 



13. Sophora Genistoides; Broom-leaved Sophora. Leaves 

 ternate, sessile; leaflets linear, mucronate, revolute at the 

 edge. The keel of the corolla is horned on both sides, as in 

 Indigofera. Shrubby. Native of the Cape. 



14. Sophora Ternata; Ternate-leaved Sophora. Leaves 

 sessile ; leaflets lanceolate, silky. Native of the Cape. 



15. Sophora Australis; Blue Sophora. Leaves ternate, 

 petioled; leaflets obovate, lanceolate, obtuse ; stipules lan- 

 ceolate, acute, twice as long as the petiole. Stem herbace- 

 ous, commonly decumbent; flowers blue: they appear in June 

 and July. Native of Carolina. This, and the two following 

 species, may be propagated by seeds sown on a warm border, 

 in shallow drills, at the beginning of April. When the stalks 

 decay in autumn, take the plants up carefully, and set them 

 in a warm border, where they are designed to remain ; for 

 they do not bear transplanting well. They may also be rais- 

 ed on a moderate hot-bed. The first winter they may be 

 placed in a common frame, or covered with mats; and in the 

 following spring turned out of the pots and planted in the full 

 ground, where, if the soil be dry, and the situation sheltered, 

 they will live many years, flowering and producing seeds. 



16. Sophora Tinctoria ; Dyer s Sophora. Leaves ternate, 

 petioled; leaflets roundish, obovate, obtuse, mucronate; sti- 

 pules obsolete, oblong, acute, many times shorter than the 

 petiole. Root perennial, from which arise several stalks about 

 a foot and half high, sending out from the bottom a great 

 number of small branches. The flowers, which are yellow, 

 and appear in July, come out towards the end of the branches 

 in short spikes. The pods are short and swelling, and in 

 warm seasons come to maturity in England. The stalks 

 decay to the root in autumn. A coarse sort of Indigo was 

 formerly made from this plant in America; whence the trivial 

 name. Native of Barbadoes and Virginia. 



17. Sophora Alba; White Sophora. Leaves ternate, petio- 

 led; leaflets cblong, obtuse; stipules filiform, shorter than the 

 petiole. Root perennial, sending up every spring a number 

 of leaves in proportion to its size: their footstalks are smooth, 

 rising two feet high, and dividing upwards into three or five 

 branches. The corolla is either white or deep blue. Native 

 of Virginia and Carolina. 



18. Sophora Lupinoides; Lupine-leaved Sophora. Leaves 

 ternate, petioled; leaflets elliptic, lanceolate, obtuse, pubes- 

 cent ; stipules lanceolate, longer than the petiole ; flowers 

 subsessile., yellow. Native of Kamtschatka. 



19. Sophora Trifoliata; Three-leaved Sophora. Leaves 

 ternate, petioled; leaflets ovate, silky. Native of the Cape. 



20. Sophora Calyptrata ; Veiled Sophora. Leaves simple, 

 elliptic, somewhat rugged above, beneath villose and netted, 

 veined ; peduncles one-flowered ; calices villose, having a 

 deciduous veil at the base. Stem shrubby ; branches stiff, 

 obscurely angular, leafy, tomentose, subdivided ; corolla very 

 large, purple; flowers axillary, solitary, on tomentose pedun- 

 cles, shorter than the adjoining leaf, having a single joint 

 near the flower, the rudiment of which is covered with a 

 globular villose veil, fastened to the joints of the peduncles : 

 as the flower increases, this veil separates from the joint, 

 and falls off when the flower is about half opened : being vil- 

 lose like the calix, and of the same colour, this veil is not easily 

 remarked by an inattentive observer, before it begins to sepa- 

 rate, and, failing off before the flower expands, is seldom 

 found in dried specimens, which have generally been gathered 

 when the plants are in full flower. Native of the Cape. 



21. Sophora Biflora; Two-flowered Sophora. Leaves 

 simple, ovate, subtomentose; peduncles two-flowered; calices 

 thrust in at the base, tomentose, coloured. Stem shrubby, 

 round, leafy, even, yellow ; branches round, tomentose ; 

 flowers at the ends of the branches at the last axils of the 

 leaves ; corolla large, pale yellow, with purple streaks. 

 Native of the Cape. 



22. Sophora Myrtillifolia; Round-leaved Sophora. Leaves 

 simple, elliptic-obovate, obtuse, cusped, silky on both sides; 

 peduncles one-flowered. Stem shrubby, round, leafy, even; 

 branches almost upright, tomentose, somewhat angular to- 

 wards their tops ; flowers towards the ends of the branches ; 

 corolla purple, with a paler keel. It flowers from November 

 to January. Native of the Cape. 



23. Sophora Hirsu'ta; Hairy Sophora. Leaves simple, 

 hirsute, the upper ones ovate, the lower roundish ; branches 

 round ; segments of the calix lanceolate, and length of the 

 wings. Shrubby ; flowering in July and August. Native of 

 the Cape. 



24. Sophora Buxifolia; Box-leaved Sophora,. Leaves sim- 

 ple, oval, smooth above, silky beneath ; peduncles one- 

 flowered ; calices thrust in at the base, tomentose, coloured. 

 Stem suflfruticose, loose, round, leafy, tomentose ; branches 

 short, spreading, more tomentose; corolla purple, with paler 

 wings. Native of the Cape. 



25. Sophora Cordata ; Heart-leaved Sophora. Leaves 

 simple, ovate, hirsute. Native of the Cape. 



26. Sophora Chrysophylla; Golden-leaved Sophora. Leaf- 

 lets obovate, emarginate, silky; clusters lateral. Flowers 

 yellow. Found in the Sandwich islands. 



Sorbus ; a genus of the class Icosandria, order Trigynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : perianth one-leafed, 

 concave, spreading, five-cleft, permanent. Corolla : petals 

 five, roundish, concave, inserted into the calix. Stamina: 

 filamenta twenty, awl-shaped, inserted into the calix ; 

 antheree roundish. Pistil: germen inferior; styles three, 

 filiform, erect ; stigmas headed. Pericarp : berry soft, glo- 



