Sophora.] 
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under the name of Edicardsia, with a shorter standard and exserted stamens. The two 
Australian species belong to the true Sophoras, with a larger standard and the stamens enclosed 
in the keel. One is a common tropical seacoast tree or shrub, the other is endemic. — Benth. 
Hoary. Leaflets under 18, broadly ovate or orbicular, rather thick . . . . 1. S. tomentosa. 
Softly pubescent. Leaflets above 20, oval-oblong, thin 2. S. Fraseri. 
1. S. tomentosa (cottony), Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 95; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 
274. A tall shrub or small tree, hoary all over with a minute close tomentum. 
Leaflets 11 to 17, broadly ovate or orbicular, very obtuse or retuse, about lin. 
long or rather more, rather thick and sometimes almost silky, rarely becoming 
glabrous. Flowers pale yellow, in loose simple terminal racemes ; pedicels as 
long as the calyx. Calyx very broad, about 3 lines long, truncate with scarcely 
prominent teeth. Standard broad, 9 to 10 lines diameter, spreading or reflexed 
above the middle ; wings and keel rather shorter, covering the stamens. Pod 
indehiscent, much contracted between the seeds, appearing to consist of 5 to 10 
nearly globular articles, each enclosing a globular seed with a hard shining testa ; 
radicle scarcely prominent and straight. — Benth. in Mart. FI. Bras. Pap. 314, t. 
124, with the synonymy there cited. 
Hab.: Keppel Bay, Broadsound, &c., Ii. Brown; on the seacoast and adjoining islands, from 
the Brisbane to the Burdekin, F. v. Mueller, M'Gillivray, Fitzalan, Henne, and others. 
2. S. Fraseri (after Chas. Fraser), Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 274. An erect 
shrub of 4 to 6ft., the branches softly pubescent or tomentose, more slender than 
in 8. tomentosa. Leaflets 21 to 31, oblong or rarely oval, obtuse or retuse, from 
under fin. to about fin. long, rather thin, pubescent. Flowers rather smaller 
than in S. tomentosa, in similar loose terminal simple racemes. Calyx broad, 2 
to 2f lines long ; the teeth prominent though very short and broad. Petals and 
stamens of S. tomentosa, except that 9 of the stamens appear to be very shortly 
connected in a ring at the base. Pod tomentose, much less contracted between 
the seeds than in S. tomentosa, the articles more oblong. Seeds ovoid-oblong, 
shining ; radicle prominent and slightly incurved. — Calpurnia lasioyyna, F. v. M. 
Fragm. v. 31. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay, Fraser; Murrum-Murrum Creek, Leichhardt; Pine River, Fitzalan; 
Ipswich, Nernst. 
73. PODOPETALUM, F. v. M. 
(Alluding to the long claws of petals.) 
Calyx with 5 short deltoid teeth of equal length, the 2 upper ones approximate, 
all slightly overlapping in the bud. Petals all free, the upper renate bulging towards 
the middle, tapering into a moderately long claw, the 4 other petals rather longer 
than the upper one, spathular or orbicular, obovate, almost equilateral, 
attenuated into a long claw. Stamens 10, free. Anthers oblong. Disk adnate, 
half the height of the calyx-tube, 10-furrowed. Style filiform at first, involute. 
Stigma terminal, very minute. Ovary long, stipitate, narrow, without partitions 
inside. Ovules 6 or 7. Pod stipitate, 3 or 4in. long. Leaves impari-pinnate ; 
leaflets large, lanceolate, fin. broad, veined. Seeds red. Stipules deciduous or 
obliterated ; stipelles none. Flowers pink, in racemose panicles. Bracts minute, 
deltoid, persistent ; bracteoles rudimentary. — F. v. M. Melb. Chemist and 
Druggist, June 1882. 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Queensland. Readily separated from 
Castanospermum by its terminal inflorescence, by the not almost toothless calyx, and by the 
petals not being extremely short-clawed. From Sophora it differs in its longer clawed petals, 
none of which are dimidiated or auriculated. — F. v. M., l.c. 
1. P. Ormondi (after Hon. Francis Ormond), F. v.M. l.c. “ Belgo-belgo ” 
of Barron River natives, E. Cowley. A small tree, branches, often rough with 
lenticelp, somewhat flattened. Leaves opposite or sub-opposite, impari-pinnate ; 
