276 calyciflor.t:. 



Glycine Caribsea, Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 146. — Bot. Reg. 275 



Glycine reflexa, JSutt. Gen. Am. II. 115. 



HAB. On fences, neighbourhood of Bath. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Stem filiform, twining, angular, sulcated, pubescent. Leaflets 

 nerved and veined. Stipules subulate. Racemes axillary, sim- 

 ple, longer than the leaves. Flowers small (but larger than in 

 the following species), yellow. Calyx externally pubescent 

 and resinoso-punctate. Standard reflected, striated ; winf s 

 small; keel yellow spotted with orange. Ovary pubescent: 

 style curved : stigma obtuse. Legume acinaciform, about an 

 inch in length, hirsute, resinoso-punctate, 2-seeded. 



This has a great resemblance to the following species, but is 

 larger in all its parts. 



2. Rhyncliosia minima. Least Rhynchosia. 



Stem twining slender angulated subpubescent, leaves 

 rhomboid mucronated puberulous resinoso-punctate 

 beneath, flowers reflected, legumes oblong attenuated 

 at the base minutely subvelutine. 



Phaseolus minimus fcetidus, Sloane, I. pi. 115. f. 1. — Doli- 

 chos minimus, Jacq. Ohs. I. t. 22. — Glycine Lamarckii, Kunth^ 

 VI. 424. — Rhynchosia minima, De Cand. Prod. II. 385. 



HAB. Common in the dry hot plains, by the road-sides. 



FL. After rain. 



Stem filiform, angulato-striated, pubescent, twining, seldom 

 more than a foot in height. Leaflets small, petiolulated, rhom- 

 boideo-ovate, mucronato-apiculated, puberulous, resinoso-punc- 

 tate, especially beneath. Stipules setaceo-subulate, deciduous. 

 Racemes axillary, in general longer than the leaf, few-flowered. 

 Flowers small, yellow, pedicelled, reflected. Calyx puberu- 

 lous, resinoso-punctate: divisions unequal, lineari-lanceolate. 

 Standard erect, entire, externally veined with purple. Le- 

 gumes not an inch in length, oblong, compressed, rounded and 

 apiculated with the remains of the style at the apex, narrow- 

 ing towards the base, minutely velutine and resinoso-punctate, 

 2-seeded : seeds reniform. 



3. Rynchosia phaseoloides. Phaseolus-like Hyn- 



chosia. 



Stem twining terete pubescent, leaflets broad-ovate 

 acuminate glabrous above villous and irapunctate 

 beneath, racemes axillary and sub-terminal, legumes 

 contracted in the middle. 



Glycine phaseoloides, Suariz, Fl. Jnd. Occ. 1248. — Abrus, 



