Sophora. | LEGUMINOSAE. 029 
8. SOPHORA Linn. 
Small trees or shrubs. Leaves imparipinnate. Flowers in racemes or 
panicles, large, showy, Calyx oblique, broadly campanulate; teeth very 
short. Standard broadly obovate or nearly orbicular, erect or spreading ; 
wings oblong, oblique, shorter than the keel. Stamens 10, free or rarely 
obscurely connate at the base; anthers versatile. Ovary shortly stipitate ; 
ovules numerous; style incurved ; stigma minute, terminal. Pod monili- 
form, elongated, terete or 4-winged or -angled, fleshy or coriaceous or 
woody, indehiscent or 2-valved, each seed enclosed in a separate cell. Seed 
oblong to globose, few or many. 
A genus of between 25 or 30 species, mainly from the tropics and the warm 
temperate zones. The New Zealand species -belong to the section Edwardsia, often 
kept as a distinct genus, and which is characterized by the short standard exserted 
stamens, and usually 4-winged pod. 
_ In the first edition of this work I followed Hooker and Bentham in combining all 
the New Zealand forms under one species, but I am now fully convinced that the 
differences are much too important to be treated in such a manner. 
Young plants without divaricating branches. Pinnae 12-25 
pairs, §-lin, long. Flowers large, 2 in, long. Standard 4+ 
shorter than the wings .. = Me a .. 1. S. tetraptera. 
Young plants with divaricating branches. Pinnae 25—40 pairs. 
Flowers smaller, 14 in. long. Standard as long as the wings .. 2. S. microphylla. 
Branches always divaricating. Pinnae 2-5 pairs. Flowers small, 
4—2 in. Standard_as long as the wings, Pods small .. 93. 8. prostratia. 
idwardsia microphylla (Aiton) Salisb. 
(Sophora microphylla Ait.) 
TaN eZee Vol. 55, ps BG4. 
Hdwardsia tetraptera, (Miller) 
Oliv. = (Sophora tetraptera Mill.) 
T.N.Z.I. vol. 53, p. 364. 
idwardsia prostrata, (Buch.) 
Oliv. ™ (Sophora prostrata, Buch, ) 
T.N.Z.I. vol. 53, p. 563, 
pinnate; Jleatiets very numerous, 20-00 Pairs, SUUELLY peLLUIaLE, stats, 
z-3 In. long, rarely more, oblong or obovate, sometimes nearly orbiculazr, 
obtuse or slightly emarginate, when young clothed with fulvous suky hairs, 
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