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P L A T E CCCXLVII.
S O P H O R A CAPENSIS.
Vetch-leaved Sophora.
C L A S S X. ORDER L
DECANBRIA MONOGYNIA. Tea Chives. One Pointal.
GENERIC CH
CALYX. Perlanthium monophylltini, breve, campaiiulatura,
bafi lupenie gibbum; orequinque
deutato, obliquo, obtuib.
COROLLA papillionacea, pentapetala.
Vexillum oblongum, fenfim latius, reftum,
lateribus refiexis.
Ala: duae, oblongae, bali appendiculatas,
longitudine vexilli.
Carina dipelala ; petalis alis conformibus,
raarginibus iuferioribus approximatis, n.aVicularibus.
STAMISA. Filamenta decern, difliniSla, parallela,
lubulata, longitudine corollae, intra carina
recondita. Anthers minimae, affurgentes.
PisTiLLUM. Germen oblongum, teres. Stylus
magnitudine et fitu ftaminum. Stigma
obtufum.
PERICAKPIUM. Legnmen loiigillimum, tenue,
uniloculare, ad l'emina nodolum.
SEMINA plurima, fubrotunda.
AEACTEK.
EMPALEMENT. Cup one-leaf, fliort, bell-lliaped,
hunched at ihe bafe on the upper fide;
mouth five-toothed, oblique, obtufe.
BLOSSOM butterfiy-lhaped, five pefalled.
Standard oblong, gradually wider, flraighl,
reflexed at the fides.
Wings two, oblong, appendicled at the bafe,
the length of the ftandard.
Keel two petalled with the petals conformable
to the wings, the lower margins approaching
and boat-lliaped.
CHIVES. Ten threads, dillinft, parallel, and
fliaped, the length of, the bloflbm, within
the keel. Tips very fmall, turned upwards.
POINTAL. Seed-bud oblong, cylindrical. Shaft
the fize and fituation of the chives. Summit
blunt.
SEED-VESSEL. Pod very long, flender, one-celled,
knobbed at the feeds.
SEEDS many, roandilh.
S P E C I F I C
Sophora foliis pinnatis; foliolis lanceolatis, mucronatis,
fubtus tomentofis; caule fruticofo.
CHAKACTEK.
Sophora with winged leaves; leaflets lancefliaped,
pointed, downy beneath; ftem
flirubby.
REPEEENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Cup.
2. The Standard, or upper Petal.
3. One fide Petal, or Wing of the BloHbra.
4. One of the Petals of the Keel.
5. The Chives and Pointal, natural fize.
6. One of the Chives, magnified.
7. The Pointal, natural fize.
THIS is a plant of confiderable fize at the Cape of Good Hope, lb much fo, as to be looked upon there
rather as a tree, than llirub. It was firll fent to England, in the year 1/73, by Mr. E. Ma lion; is a
hardy green-houfe plant; thrives in a mixture of loam and peat, and flowers in Auguf t , or September.
There is no method, yet difcovered, to propagate it in this country; but, as feeds are lb common of
this plant, near Cape town, there is fcarce a parcel arrives, from thence, which does not contain fome
of them.
Among the new modern vagaries in botany, this genus has been thought, by the French botanifls,
(those admirable perplextrs of natural order,) to be better divided in two, as fome of the Ipecies
happen to have the joints of the pods a little more fwelled than others. How fo trifling a variation,
and that in a part of the plant which is known to vary, in almoft every genus, through raofl of the
fpecies, where they are numerous; fliould have been deetned of ftifiicient moment to alter the names
of so many eftablillied plants, and thole determitied by fuch authority as Linnseus, we are at a lofs to
determine; and are equally aftoniflied that Willdenow lliould have followed them. The new geiuis is
termed Podalyria, and to which, this plant is attached in the new fyllem.