94 Leguminosce. [Sophora. 



young 1., rotundate, adnate to stem, covered with orange 

 pubescence ; fl. fully \ in., ped. as long as cal., racemes 

 numerous, sessile, coming from the base of the shoots below 

 the young 1., 3-4 in. long ; cal. slightly pilose, upper segm. 

 nearly absent, lower ones shallow, broadly triangular; standard 

 with 2 callosities at base; stam. monadelphous but upper one 

 partly free ; pod 1J-2 in. by over f in. wide, much compressed^ 

 acutely pointed, glabrous, 1 -seeded. 



Moist region, 2000-4000 ft; rare. Sabaragamuwa ; Kitulgala; Han- 

 tane. Fl. March ; white, tipped with pink, or all pale violet-pink, caL 

 coppery-pink. 



Also in Western India. 



A very ornamental climber ; the young leaves, twigs, &c, are of the 

 same coppery-pink colour as the calyx. 



6. IS. sinuata, Benth. in Thw. Enum. 93 (1859). 

 Herm. Mus. 16. Fl. Zeyl. n. 164. Sophora heptaphylla, L. Sp. PL 

 373 (non Auct. post.). Thw. Enum. 93. C. P. 1491. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 246. 



A large scandent shrub with pale bark ; l.-rachis 4-7 in. 

 smooth, lflts. 7 (3 pair and end one), on thick petioles \ in. 

 long, about 3 in., oval or lanceolate, rounded at base, obtuse 

 and emarginate at apex, somewhat conduplicate, perfectly 

 glabrous, coriaceous; fl. \ in., articulated on hairy ped. shorter 

 than cal., panicles large elongated terminal; cal. pilose, nearly 

 truncate; standard without callosities at base; stam. distinctly 

 diadelphous ; pod 2|~5 in. by 1 in. wide, tapering to base, 

 usually beaked, glabrous, shining, veined, 1-4-seeded, often 

 contracted at the places where seeds have not developed. 



Low country, chiefly on the coast; rather rare. Colombo; Kalutara;. 

 Weligama ; Batticaloa. Fl. Feb., September ; pale pink. 



Also in Malaya. 



Hermann's excellent specimens, which are in flower but without fruit, 

 show Linnaeus' Sophora heptaphylla to be this ; but in his later books 

 Linnaeus has quoted Rumph. Amboin. iv. t. 22 (which looks like a true 

 Sophora), and has thus confused subsequent writers (see under Sophora 

 zeylanica). 



Hermann gives the name ' Radaliya ' for this, which belongs rightly to 

 Connarus monocarpus. 



46. SOPHORA, L. 



Trees or shrubs, 1. imparipinnate, lflts. without stipels, fL 

 numerous in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes ; cal. cam- 

 panulate or cup-shaped, oblique, more or less truncate with 

 very short segm. ; pet. about equal, with long claws, keel-pet. 

 obtuse; stam. 10, free to base or nearly so; stigma capitate;. 



