222 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
accompanied by two subulate lateral stipules, often caducous. The 
flowers are pedunculate in the axils of the leaves, usually solitary 
or geminate; rarely more numerous. 
This series contains twenty-six genera. Two are South African 
and only contain shrubs, viz., Podalyria and Cyclopia. Five are 
natives of the northern hemisphere and possess herbaceous leaves, 
viz., Baptisia, Thermopsis, Anagyris, Piptanthus, and Pickeringia. 
The other nineteen genera are Australian, often comprising 
little shrubs, with coriaceous persistent 
leaves. They are as follows: Brachysema, 
Jansonia, Oxylobium, Chorizema, Isotropis, 
Gompholobium, Mirbeha, Burtonia, Jack- 
sonia, Spherolobium, Viminaria, Daviesia, 
Aotus, Phyllota, Gastrolobium, Pultenea, 
Eutaria, Dillwynia, and Latrobea. 
Sophora (Styphnolobium) japonica. 
X. SOPHORA SERIES. 
Sophora' (figs. 195, 196) has irregular re- 
supinate hermaphrodite flowers. The con- 
cave receptacle is lined by a glandular disk, 
on whose rim is inserted a calyx divided 
into five equal or slightly unequal teeth, 
imbricated in the bud. The petals, alter- 
nate with these, have a similar perigynous 
insertion, and a vexillary estivation. 
The standard is obovate or orbicular, erect 
or spreading, shorter or longer in the keel. 
The wings are oblique and elongated. The 
keel is oblong, nearly straight ; its two pe- 
Fre. 195. Fia.19¢, tals are united edge to edge, or else one 
Fruit. Partial longitudinal overlaps the other below. Of the ten free or 
section of fruit (3). 
nearly free stamens five are superposed to 
the calyx lobes; their anthers are versatile introrse two-celled, de- 
Br., in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iii,6—Harv. Suppl. v. 163.—DC., Prodr., ii. 95.—Sracu, 
& Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 9—Bot. Reg., t.869.— Suit. Buffon, i. 160.—Ewp1., Gen., n. 6738.— 
Bot. Mag., t. 753, 1580. B. H., Gen, 555, 1002, n. 273.—Patrinia 
1L., Gen., n. 508.—J., Gen., 352.—GaRtn., Rarin., in Jowrn. Phys., \xxxix. 97 (ex ENDL.).— 
Fruct., ii, 320, t, 149.—Lamx., Dict., vii. 228, Radiusia Ruicus., Consp., 148. 
