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L egiiminosa Sophora. 



green flowers. It is a native of the Amour district, and still 

 rare in gardens. 



29. SOPHORA. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves imparipinnate. 

 Flowers white, yellow, or bluish violet, in simple terminal 

 racemes or panicles. Pods roundish or 4-winged, moniliform, 

 fleshy or coriaceous. Natives of the warmer regions. Sophora 

 is the Arabic name of a leguminous tree. 



1. S. Japonica. A large deciduous tree with elegant pin- 

 nated leaves composed of 9 to 11 dark green leaflets. Flowers 

 comparatively small, dirty white. The variety pendula (fig. 

 77) is one of the handsomest of weeping trees. The figure 



Fig. 77. Sophora Japonica. 



here given was taken in winter, to show the habit with greater 

 precision. A native of Japan and China. 



There are two or three hardy herbaceous species, suitable only 

 for larger collections : 8. alopecuroldes, about 3 feet high, with 

 terminal racemes of yellow flowers, from Asia Minor; S.galef/oldes 

 and S. flavescens, both yellow-flowered species from Siberia. 



