264 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE GENERA SWEETIA AND GLYCINE, 
hooked pod, the other with the stamens all perfect and the pod 
straight or slightly incurved at the end—the one represented by 
G. labialis, Linn. f., the other by G. javanica, Linn. Not being 
aware that either group had been previously published as a genus, 
Arnott retained the name of Glycine for the former, as containing 
the commonest and most widely spread species, and gave to the 
latter the new name of Notonia, which he afterwards changed to 
Johnia on perceiving that DeCandolle had already published a 
Notonia in Composite. This nomenclature was unfortunate; for 
recent investigations have shown that Glycine so limited not 
only excluded all the species of the elder Linnzus, but was iden- 
tical with Teramnus, Swartz, adopted in the ‘ Prodromus, and that 
Johnia, on the other hand, comprising G. javanica, Linn., which had 
never yet been generically separated, had much more legitimate 
grounds for retaining the Linnean name. It is true that @. Soja, 
Sieb. & Zuce. (Dolichos Soja, Linn.), which I now propose to restore 
to the same group, had been adopted as a genus by DeCandolle 
after Moench; but even supposing the union now proposed to be 
generally acquiesced in, the law of priority would doubly sanction 
the retaining as Glycine a species of the elder Linneus in pre- 
ference to one of his son’s, and the adoption of Swartz’s separate 
genus in preference to Mench’s. To Glycine as thus limited 
must be referred my Leptolobiwm or Leptocyamus. As Australian, 
and as having been formerly published under Kennedya, it only 
occurred to me at the time, with the limited materials then at my 
disposal, to compare it with that genus, more especially as the 
flowers are usually solitary under each bract, not clustered two 
or three together as in Arnott’s Johnia; but this character is 
accompanied by no other one, is not always constant, and appears 
wholly insufficient to be considered as otherwise than sectional 
where the habit is so very similar. 
The genus Teramnus, Sw. (Glycine, W. & Arn.), of which I have 
given a detailed character in Martius’s ‘Flora Brasiliensis, com- 
prises the four or five following species. 
1. T. voLuBILIS, Swartz. Foliolis oblongis lanceolatisve subtus sericeis 
pubescentibusve, calycis labio superiore brevissime bidentato, vexillo 
basi angustato, alis utrinque angulato-dentatis carina WER longi- 
oribus, legumine adpresse piloso. 
Hab. Tropical America. 
2. T. uNCINATUS, Swartz. Foliolis oblongis lanceolatisve vel imis ovatis 
subtus sericeo-villosis, calycis laciniis 5 sequalibus, vexillo basi angus- 
