Glycine. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. | 317 
late. Racemes axillary. Legumes straight, acute, three- 
keeled on the back, from ten to twelve-seeded, 
D. psoraloides, Lamarck, Encycl. ii, 297. 
Teling. Goor-chikurkai. 
Psoralia tetragonoloba. Mant. 104, Rich. iii, 544, 
Is anannual esculent plant, much cultivated in the gardens 
of the natives on the coast of Coromandel. I never saw it 
wild. ' 
Stem annual, erect, branchy, irregularly angular from the 
insertion of the leaves, a little hairy, piped, about as thick as 
the little finger and about three feet high. Leaves alternate, 
ternate. Leaflets oval, acute, grossly serrate, on both sides 
are a few procumbent white hairs, with the under side slight- 
ly scabrous, from two to three inches loug, and from one to 
two broad. Petioles three sided, channelled. * Stipules su- 
bulate. Racemes axillary, single,about as long as the petioles, 
many-flowered, Flowers rose-coloured, small, very short- 
pedicelled. Bractes single, each pedicel subulate. Calyx, 
under divisions largest. Coro/, when it first opens, soon af- 
ter sun-rise, it has the general forin of other papilionaceous 
flowers, but about ten o’clock they expand and appear an- 
gular, and four-petalled ; the least touch hastens the change, 
and the petals fly open with a very smart elastic jerk, which 
produces a great discharge of dust from the anthers. Le-: 
gumes erect, linear, pointed, compressed between the seeds, 
margin three-keeled. Seeds from eight to twelve. — 
The young tender legumes are much used by tbe natives 
in their curries, stews, &c. Cattle are also fond of the plant. 
GLYCINE. Abbaye: N. 1182... 
- Calyx two-lipped. Keel of — corol, sip i — ham: 
ner at ag Ss 
oH a. debilis, Willd, § iii. 1060. at 
Half diffuse, half twining, hairy. Leaves’ 
