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Bulletin of the University of Texan 

 SOPHORA L. The Coral Beans. 



Trees or shrubs with evenly pinnate leaves, showy flowers 

 in clusters, and usually indehiscent constricted pods. 



Leaves deciduous 1. S. affinis. 



Leaves thick, persistent 2. S. secundiflora. 



1. Sophora affinis Torrey and Gray. Deciduous Coral 

 Bean. A small round topped tree with thin, reddish brown 



Fig-. 37. Sophora secundiflora. 



bark and green twigs. Leaves deciduous, unequally pinnate, 

 leaflets 11 to 19, stalked. Flowers in axillary drooping ra- 



