178 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Shuteria. 
than S. africana, only the very youngest stems slightly adpressed grey-silky, the leaf- 
lets larger and more oblong, the terminal one 3 in. long by under half as broad, both 
sides glabrous, the under one subglaucous, similar racemes, stipelle and bracts, the calyx 
deeply cleft with four lanceolate acuminate teeth, the pod on a stalk which equals the 
calyx, 15 lines long by 4-5 lines broad, 4~5-seeded. 
54. GLYCINE, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 580. 
Calyx with the two upper teeth more or less connate, the others 
linear or lanceolate. Standard orbicular, spreading, subauriculate at 
the base; wings narrow, adhering slightly to the shorter obtuse keel. 
Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous; anthers uniform, all fertile. 
Ovary subsessile, multiovulate ; style beardless, slightly incurved ; 
stigma terminal capitate. Pod linear, usually compressed, two-valved, 
septate between the seeds, many rarely two-seeded.— Wide-climbing 
perennials with leaves usually pinnately trifoliolate. 
A small genus, confined to the tropics of the Old World. 
Leaves all trifoliolate, seeds many. 
Flowers in copious elongated stalked racemes. 
Terminal leaflet distinctly stalked. 
End leaflet ovate acute . co et 
End leaflet papyraceous obovate acute . 
End leaflet coriaceous obovate blunt 
Terminal leaflet subsessile Agog 
Flowers 4-6 in congested subsessile racemes 
Flowers in pairs in the axils of the leaves 
Leaves simple and trifoliolate intermixed, seeds 2 
. G. javanica. 
. G. micans. 
. G. andongensis. 
. G, Petitiana. 
. G. hedysaroides. 
G. biflora. 
. G. Borianii. 
ST OUR CO bo Re 
1. G. javanica, L.; DC. Prod. ii. 242. Stems slender, wide- 
climbing, more or less densely clothed with silky pubescence. Stipules 
lanceolate, 2—3 lines, deciduous. Leatlets 3, subcoriaceous, glabrescent 
above, finely grey downy below; end one ovate, acute, 2-4 in. long; 
petiolule 3-6 lines; lateral ones very unequal-sided. Flowers in copi- 
ous usually peduncled axillary racemes 3—6 in. long. Bracteoles linear, 
equalling the calyx. Pedicels very short. Calyx 2-23 lines, densely 
silky, the linear teeth equalling the tube. Corolla bright red slightly 
exserted. Pod linear, an inch long, 14—2 lines broad, nearly straight, 
densely silky, 4—6-seeded.—G. micrantha, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 
No. 8; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 212. @. moniliformis, Hochst. in Schimp. 
Hb. Abyss. No. 703; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 211. Bujacia anonychia, 
E, Meyer, Comm. 127. 
Upper Guinea. Banks of the Gaboon, Mann! 
Nile Land. Sennaar, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper! and others. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands ot Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Bojer! 
Var. 8. G. longicauda, Schweinf. in Verh. Zool. Bot. Wien, xviii. 658. 
Stem and leaves below glabrescent; leaflets larger, reaching 5-6 in. long; racemes 
longer and laxer; calyx less densely silky. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schweinfurth ! 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Lower part of the valley of the Shire, Dr. Meller ! 
Also a plant of Natal and Tropical Asia. 
