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PLATE CCCXLVII. 
SOPHORA CAPENSIS, 
~~ Petch-leaved Sophora. 
| CLASS X. ORDER I. | 
: DECANDRIA MONOGY NIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, breve, cam- EmpaLement, Cup one-leaf, fhort, bell-thaped, 
panulatum, bafi fuperne gibbum; ore quin- hunched at the bafe on the upper fide; 
. que-dentato, obliquo, obtufo. mouth five-toothed, oblique, obtufe. : 
Cororta papillionacea, pentapetala. Buossom butterfly-fhaped, five petalled. 
Vexillum oblongum, fenfim latius, re&tum, Standard oblong, gradually wider, ftraight, 
lateribus reflexis. reflexed at the fides. 
Ale duzx, oblonge, bafi appendiculate, Wings two, oblong, appendicled at the bafe, 
longitudine vexilli. ‘the length of the ftandard 
Carina dipetala; petalis alis conformibus, Keel two petalled with the petals conform- 
marginibus inferioribus approximatis, navi- . able to the wings, the lower margins ap- 
cularibus. proaching and boat-fhaped. 
Sramina. Filamenta decem, diftin@a, paral- Cuives, Ten threads, diftinét, parallel, and 
lela, fubulata, longitudine corollz, intra ca- fhaped, the length of, the bloffom, within 
rina recondita. Antherz ets affur- the keel. Tips very {mall, turned upwards. 
entes, 
, AC Germen oblongum, teres. Stylus PoinTAL, Seed-bud oblong, cylindrical. Shaft 
magnitudine et fitu ftaminum. Stigma the fize and fituation of the chives. Sum- 
i obtufum, mit blunt. 
% S Pexicarrium. Legumen longiffimum, tenue, SEED-vEssEL. Pod very long, flender, one-cell- 
-_— gniloculare, ad femina nodofum. : ed, knobbed at the feeds. 
ss a plurima, fubrotunda. SEEDs many, roundi 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
ie foliis pinnatis; faliolis lanceolatis, mu- | Sophora with winged leaves; leaflets lance- 
cronatis, fubtus tomentofis; caule fruticofo. fhaped, pointed, downy beneath; ftem 
fhrubby. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Cup. 
2. The Standard, or upper Peta 
3. One fide Petal, or Wing of i Bloffom. 
4. One of the Petals of the Keel. 
5. The Chives and Pointal, — fize. 
6. One of the Chives, magni 
* “ 7. The Pointal, natural fize. 
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Tuts is a plant of confiderable nat at the Cape of Good Hope, fo much {o, as to be ng ar ae 
rather as a tree, than fhrub. as firft fent to England, in the year 1773, by } rs een 
hardy green-houfe plant; soiecs f in a mixture of Joam and peat, and flowers in ‘Auguft, = ced of 
~ ‘There is no method, yet difcovered, to propagate it in this country; righ thea eo iat Cnt 
this aa, near Cape town, there is {carce a parcel arrives, from thence, 
he new modern vagaries in botany, this genus has been thought, by the eran 
{those admirable perplexers of natural order,) to be better divided in two, a cies papas a 
happen to have the joints of the pods a little more fwelled than others. How re 1 sda a of t 
and that in a part of the plant which is known to vary, in almoft every genus, throu Meek the eames 
fpecies, where ay are numerous; fhould have been deemed of fufficient. moment to . ea 
of so many eftablifhed plants, and thofe determined by fuch authority as Linnzeus ee new genus is 
determine ; 3 and are equally aftonifhed that Willdenow fhould have followed them. 
termed Podalyria, and to which, this plant is attached in the new fyftem. 
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