Gfl/cine, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 317 



late. Racemea axillary. Lerjumes straioht, acute, three- 

 keeled on the back, IVoia ten to twelve-seeded. 



D. psnra/oides. Lamarck. EnctjcL ii. 297. 



Teiinr/. Goor-chikurkai. 



Psoralia tefrrif/onoloba. JMant. 104. Rich, iii. 544. 



Is an annual esculent plant, much cultivated in the gardens 

 of the natives on the coast of" Coroniandel. I never saw it 

 wild. 



Stem annual, erect, branchy, irregularly angular from the 

 insertion of the leaves, a little hairy, pip(Ml, 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 long, and from one to 

 two broad. P«'^'o/f.v three-sided, channelled. Slipti/es s\i- 

 bulate. /?«cpw»es axillary, single, about as long as the petioles, 

 many-flowered. Floxcers rose-coloured, small, very short- 

 pedicelled. Bractes single, each pedicel subulate. Cali/x, 

 under divisions largest. Corol, M'hen it first opens, soon af- 

 ter sun-rise, it has the general form of other papilionaceous 

 flowers, but about ten o'clock they expand and appear an- 

 gular, and four-petal led ; 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 ei<>ht to twelve. 



The young tender legumes are much used by the natives 

 in their curries, stews, &c. Cattle are also fond of the plant. 



GLYCINE. Schreh. gen. N. 1182. 



Calyx two-lipped. Keel of the corol, reflecting the ban- 

 ner at top. 



]. G. dehilis. Willd. iii. 1060. 



Half diffuse, half twininof, hairy. Leaxies iexn^ie : leaflets 



