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PLATE DLXXXV. 



RA JAPON 



Japanese Sophora. 



CLASS X. ORDER I. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx 5-dentatus, superne gibbus. Corolla pa- 

 pilionacea: alls longitudine vexilli. Lo- 



mentum moniliforme. 



Cup five-toothed, swelling above. Blossom bat- 

 terfly-shaped, with wings the length of the 

 keel. Pod necklace-shaped. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



ophora foliis pinnatis: foliolis pluribus ova- 

 tis glabris : caule arboreo. IVilld. Sp. PL 



Sophora with winged leaves: the leaflets nu- 



and smooth : stem- arbo- 



rescent. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 



1 . The empalement. 



2. Thevexillum. 



3. One of the alae. 

 ' 4. The carina. 



5. The chives. 



6. The seed-bud and pointal.. 



that genus at present known. The 



from a tree more than 40 feet high, in the collection of John Ord, esq. at Purser's Cross, Fulham, which 



fifty years ago. Our attachment to even the inanimate companions of 



about 



poets (Cowley 



" A wood coeval with himself he sees j 

 And loves his old cotemporary trees." 



Mr. Ord obtained his plants of Mr. Gordon, nurseryman at Mile End, who introduced 

 from China in the year 1753. The first time of its flowering in this country, we learn, 

 Grace the Duke of Northumberland's collection at Sion, in August 1797. The only fi™ 



seen 



n ^^ HUluuucUMSj vol iiu uurmann, in his Flora lndica, and after him 



Linnaeus, describe the flowers as white. In Mr. Ord's garden they are of a faint yellow, as in the 



with purple. 



have 



maxim 



**..•... Nimium ne crede colori." 



