136 Leguminose—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. Japénica.—A large deciduous tree with elegant pin- 
nated leaves composed of 9 to 11 dark green leaflets. Flowers 
comparatively small, dirty white. The variety péndula (fig. 
77) is one of the handsomest of weeping trees. The figure 
Vig. 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 herbaccous species, suitable only 
for larger collections :—S, uluprcuroides, about 3 fect high, with 
terminal racemes of yellow fowers, from Asia Minor; S. galegoides 
and S. flavéseens, both yellow-flowered species from Siberia. 
