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jj. LEQUMiNOSJS. (J. G. Baker.) 



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65. GAZ.ACTZA, P. Br. 



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Twining "herbs, witli 3-foliolate stipellate leaves, like Glycine in habit, but 

 "witb the nodes of the raceme slightly tumid. Calyx-tube short ; teeth linear or 

 lanceolate, tbe two uppermost entirely fused in one. Corolla little exserted ; its 

 petals nearly equal in length ; keel obtuse, nearly straight. Stamens diadelph- 

 ous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile^ many-ovuled ; style long, filifoi'm, beard- 

 less, stigma capitate. Pod linear, flattened, recurved. — Distrib. Species 45^ 

 mostly Tropical American. 



1. G. tenuiflora, W. ^ A, Prodr. 206; leaflets small obtuse, flowers in 

 pairs from the distant nodes of elongated racemes, hairs of calyx very short ad- 

 pressed. Gl3-cine tenuiflora, Willd.\ DCPiodr. ii. 241; Roxh. FL Ind. iii* 

 319. 



Plains from the foot of the Himalayas to Ceylok and Siam. — Distkib. Natal, 

 Zambesi-land, Australia, Malay isles. 



Stems very slender, obscurely grey-downy. Stipides deciduous, minute ; petiole 

 l-l|in. ; leaflets ovate or oblong, 1^-2 in. long, membranous, green, glabrescent 

 above, grey, obscurely silky below. Eacemes copious, peduncled, ^-^ fb. long. Calyx 

 _ in. long, finely grey silky ; teeth lanceolate acuminate, exceeding the tube. Co- , 

 Tolla reddish, i in. long. Pod 1^-2 in. by \ in., glabrescent, 6-S-secded. 



Vab. 1. luctda ; leaflets linear-oblong subcoriaceous glabrous on both surfaces 

 sublucent above, flowers smaller. Glycine lucida, Grak. in WalL Cat. 5511. G* 

 graminea, Hcyne MSS, — Western Peninsula. 



Vah. 2. minor; stems very slender, leaflets and flowers smaller, the former 

 oblong i-1 in. long thinly grey silky below, corolla \~^ in. long, pod 1 in- long 

 glabrous 4-/5-seeded. Leucodictyon malvensis, i^flZ^r. ^' Gibs, Bomb. Flora, 73. ^', 

 tenuiflora, WalL Cat. 5509 -4.— Western Peninsula. 



Var. 3. villosa ; stems leaves below and pods densely grey-downy, leaflets oblong 

 1-1^ in. long, flowers fewer and smaller than in the tvpe. G. villosa, W. ^ A. Prodr. 

 207. Glycine tenuiflora. Wall. Cat. 5509, 5, C. G-'filiformis, WalL Cat 5510 and 

 5519. — Western Peninsula. . .■' 



Yar. 4. latifolia ; stems and leaves below densely pubescent, leaflets subcoria- 

 ceous roundish 1^-2 in. long, racemes elongated, calyx hoary more deeply cleft.— 

 Concan, Stocks, 



2. G. ? ozyphylla, Bmth. PI Jnngh. 233 ; leatfets la ^ 

 2-4 in axillary nearly sessile cymes, hairs of calyx long and^ silky. GlyciD®. 

 oxyphylla^ Grah. in Wall. Cat, 5522. 



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Tenasserim ; Tavoy, Gomez. Amherst, Parish. 



Stems slender, clothed with conspicuous spreading deciduous ferruginous hairs- 

 Petioles 2-3 in. ; leaflets membranous, green, subconcolorous, with a few adpressed 

 hairs on both surfiicos, oblong, 3-4 in. long. -Srflc^5 lanceolate, ncrvose, snbpersistent; 

 bracteoles linear, as long as the tube. Calyx § in. long ; teeth linear-setaceous, 2-* 

 times as long as the tube, plumose. Corolla reddish, ^ in. long. Pod unknown.—I^^' 

 cedes from Galactia by its cymose inflorescence and persistent nervose bracts. 



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C6. COCKX.ZANTZIVS, Benth. 

 A climbing herb. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, stipellate. Flowers race 



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CalyX'tube campaniilate ; teeth short, the lowest longest, lanceolate, the two 

 upper fused into one. Corolla much, exserted, the petals nearly equal in length r 

 standard broad ; heel narrow, curved, rounded at the end in a semicircle, j^^^' 

 mens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary short-stipitate, many-ovuled ; styl* 



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