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Glycine phaseoloides. Lesser Red-bead 



Glycine. 



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Class and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Cal. 2-labiatus. Corolla? carina apice vexillum reflectens. 

 Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Glycine phaseoloides ; frutescens, foliis ternatis villosis, 



racemis axillaribus, leguminibus tomentosis compres- 



sis medio coarctatis dispermis. 

 Glycine phaseoloides ; foliis ternaiis snbtus villosis racemis 



terminalibus. Sivartz Prodr. p. 105. — Flor. Ind. Occ. 



1248. mild. Sp. PI 3. p. 1060. 

 Glycine sylvestre scandens, foliis pinnato-ternatis, floribus 



spicatis, siliqnis bispermibns medio coarctatis. Brown 



Jam. 298, 2. 

 Phaseolus florum spica pyramidata, semine coccinco nigra 



macula notato. Plum. Cat. 12 ? 

 Dolichos pyramidalis ; volubilis, racemis pyramidalibus 



longissimis, leguminibus brevibus dispermis subquin- 



quagenis, seminibus subrotnndis. Lam. Encycl. 2. 



p. 296 ? 



Descr. Stern twining-, villous. Leaves teruate, clothed 

 with a soft pubescence on both sides. Leaflets ovate-acu- 

 minate, somewhat rhomb-shaped ; the terminal one on a 

 longer footstalk than the lateral. Stipules lanceolate, fall- 

 ing off before the flowers appear. Racemes of flowers from 

 two to five inches long. Calyx bilabiate, purplish brown, 

 persistent : upper-lip emarginate : lower-lip three toothed : 

 teeth acute, the middle one the longest. Corolla papilio- 

 naceous : vexillutn oval, brown-purple, streaked with 

 > ♦Now on the inside and green at the base : alee very nar- 

 row, curved, green : carina the size ot* the vexillum, green, 



monopetalout 



