grooved above : partial petioles short, opposite. Flowers 

 in terminal, crouded racemes. Calyx gibbous at the base, 

 bilabiate : upper-lip truncate : lower-lip 3-toothed, subulate. 

 Corolla papilionaceous : vexillum suborbiculate, emarginate, 

 spreading, claiv cartilaginous, extending into the middle of 

 the limb : alte shorter, connivent, slightly united at the apex : 

 carina shorter by half than vexillum, petals sometimes united, 

 at others distinct, boat-shaped, incurved at the point but not 

 reflecting the vexillum. Stamens diadelphous. Bractes 

 large, enveloping the flower-buds, ovate-acuminate, purple, 

 extremely deciduous. Legume said to be coriaceous ; seeds 

 the size of a small kidney -bean, and spotted. 



Pursh has united this with Glycine Apios, (No. 1198) 

 under the generic name of Apios ; but Nuttall separates it 

 from Apios and considers it as a distinct genus, to which he 

 has given the name of Wistera, in honour of the late 

 Dr. Caspar Wistar, Professor of anatomy in the university 

 of Pensylvania. We think it best to retain the name by 

 whrch it has been generally known, and under which it is 

 recorded in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, though, 

 it must be allowed, that the genus Glycine is at present rather 

 a heterogeneous compound. 



A very ornamental shrub, tolerably hardy, but does not 

 flower very readily except in favourable situations. There 

 used to be a very fine plant trained up against the house at 

 Messrs. Loddiges and Sons at Hackney, which, in some years, 

 bore a profusion of flowers. Our drawing was taken from a 

 specimen communicated in June last by Thomas Wildman, 

 Esq. late of Lay ton. 



Grows naturally in the swamps of Virginia, Carolina, and 

 the Illinois. Introduced in 1724 by Mr. Mark Catesbv. 



