Sophora.] t. iBGUMiNOSiB. (J. G. Baker.) 261 



densely pubescent ; teeth distinct, deltoid. Corolla bright yellow, 3 times the length 

 of the calyx. Pod i in. broad, sublignose, finely downy, 6-12-soeded, the seeds close 

 and constrictions slight except where the ovules do not develop. 



§§§ Edwardsla, Salisb. Pod famished with fbiir distinct wings. — Kei/r 

 earlmgia, Bunge." 



9. S. mollis, Cfrah. in Wall. Cat. 6336 ; flowers smaller developed before 

 the leaves in short crowded racemes. Edwardsia mollis, Royle III. t. 32, fig. 2. 

 Sophora^ Houghiana, Wall. Cat. 6336 6. 



HS,ins and low hills of the north-west ; Hazaea and the Salt hanqk to KrMAON 

 and NiPAL, ascending to 4000 ft. 



A low spineless shrub, with finely grey-downy branches, the flowers developed 

 ft/st in copious short simple ascending racemes, the leaves appearing with the fruit. 

 Leaves ^ it. loiag; leaflets 21-25, rigidly coriaceous, pale, grey green, ^-J in. long, 

 obtuse, emarginate, prominently veined, finely grey-downy. Eaoemes 2-3 in. long ; 

 pedicels equalling or , exceeding the calyx. Calyx ^-\ in., very oblique, finely grey- 

 downy. Corolla yellow, |-f in. Fod glabrous, 3-4 in. long, 5-6-seeded, the joints 

 with four distinct crustaceous wings and separated by distinct constrictions. 



Vae. hydaspidis ; leaves and calyx more densely and persistently silky, flowers 

 larger. — Salt Eange, Punjab. 



10. S. interrupta, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 165; Fl. Sylv. 90; 

 Anal. Oen. t. 12, fig. 6 ; flowers larger developed at the same times as the 

 leaves in their axils. Edwardsia maderaspatana, Wight Ic. t. 1054, as regards 

 the fruit. 



Hills of Mysore, alt. 2500-3000 ft., Wight, Beddome. 



A tall erect shrub. Leaves ^-^ ft. long ; leafiets 19-29, obtuse, emarginate, |-1^ 

 in. long, thinner than in the last, with a few obscure hairs beneath. Bacemes dis- 

 tinctly peduncled, shorter than the leaves ; pedicels twice the length of the calyx. 

 Calyx J in., very oblique, obscurely silky. Corolla bright yellow, |— |- in. long; 

 blade of standard round. Pod just like that of 8. mollis. — This is doubtless the 

 plant intended by Wight, but all except the fruit in the plate appears to be drawn 

 from 8. glavxa. 



nrPEEFECTLY KKOWN SPECIES. 



A plant from the top of Parasnath, in Behar, seen in pod only, doubtless a new 

 species, comes nearest to S. Wightii, but the 13-15 leaflets are obtuse, with thinner 

 texture and finer veining, and the joints of the fruit smaller, with a tendency to 

 dehisce down the sutures. 



93. CAI.FVB.NXA, E. Meyer. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves odd-pinnate, with numerous leaflets. Flowers 

 yellow, racemed or panicled. Calyx Voadly campanulate ; teeth deltoid. 

 Corolla much exserted ; petals equal in length ; keel obtuse, rather incurved, its 

 petals cohering. Stamens free ; anthers small, oblong, versatile. Ovary linear 

 stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma capitate. Pod strap-shaped, fiat, 

 membranous, many-seeded, indehiscent, with a narrow wing down the dorsal 

 suture. — DisTKlB. Species 6, the others Oape and Abyssinian. 



VirgUia capensis. Lam., a well-known Oape plant, allied to Calpurnia, is included 

 in Hohenacker's Nilghirf plants, but is only cultivated in India. 



1. C. aurea, Baker in Oliv. Flor. Trap. Afric. ii. 262 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 89 ; 

 Anal. Gen. t. 12, fig. 6. Virgilia aurea. Lam. ; BC. Prodr. ii. 98 ; W. Sr A. 

 Prodr. 179. Eobinia Heynei, Wall. Cat. 5653. 



Western Peninstji-a, near Courtallum, and on the Denkinacottah hiUs in moun- 

 tain jungles. — DisTEiB. Abyssinia. 



