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Glycine.l 



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substance between the seeds, the base of the style forming a very short strai.>-ht 

 or rarely hooked point. Seeds not strophiolate.— Twining or prostrate heils 

 jvith a perennial often thick or woody rootstock and usually pubescent or vil- 

 lous Leaflets 3, or rarely 5 or 7, in opposite pairs, entire or rarely sinuately 

 ^-Jobed stipitate. Flowers usually very small, in axillary racemes, singly 

 scattered along the rhachis, the lower ones often solitary or clustered in the 

 . axus without a common peduncle, and sometimes without or almost without 

 S f Jiracts small, setaceous ; bractcoles narrow or minute, usually per- 



The genus as now limited, comprising Soja, DC, and Joknia, Wight aud Arn., neither 

 &mT\\ ' extends over tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia. The Australian 



iatin t f "^ ^ ^^^*'^°" ^^/'?'<?ry^^??/^/difFeriDg fj-om the others only in the flowers b 



iiDct troin each other, not clustered along the rhachis of the raceme. Two of these spe- 



nerhi ^ T^^ *^ ^^^ Indian Archipelauio, the remaining four are endemic, some of them 

 mchid d '^^^^^ ^^ varieties of (?. clandestina or G. tahacina. They have by some beca 

 never f ^^J^^^^^^^!/(^> and supposed to have the strophiole of that genus. I have, however, 

 into atv" ?-^ ^^^^ strophiole, although the funicle, as in many other Phaseolea, expands 

 flio . J "i/^^V^e membrane covering the hilum, fraarmeuls of which may remain attached to 

 JJe seed after its separation from the funicle. 



ei-Uimal leaflets sessile between the 2 others or the 3 very shortly and 

 equaUy petiolulate. ^ 



tenis short leaflets 1 to 2 in. lob^, very hirsute. Pods falcate, 



Stp / ^P^^ calyx-lobes free from the middle 1. G.falcata, 



^ Tx ^'^°<^er, twining. Pod linear, nearly straight. Upper calyi- 



lobes free from the middle ... . . ? . ... . . 2. G,clandedlna. 



stra- hf^'^'TT^^''^^*^ orbicular or obovate. Pod linear, nearly 

 Terniin- 1 1 fl ^W^^ calyx-lobes united nearly to the top , . . . 3. G. Latrobeana, 

 PuLp iv- ^^^^^'^^^ »t some distance from the lateral ones. 



shorr H r^^^ ^^ ^'^^^^^^ glabrous. Leaflets of the lowest leaves 

 ft?., f ?• ^^'■^ad, of the upper ones ovate-laneolate, lanceolate or 



Silkv ■' K r' • • • • • 4. G. fahacin^t. 



SoftlvH ^ ^^^^^ appi-cssed pubescence. Leaflets linear acute . . 5. tf. sericea. 

 i lomentose or villous. Leaflets ovate or oblong, all obtuse . 6. G. lomenlosa. 



tan- f^^^^^^i Benth. Stems in our specimens short, decumbent or per- 

 betw- ^^^ i' ^"''^^*^ ^'i^b reflexed hairs. Leaflets 3, the centnil one sessile 

 hirsuf" others, all lanceolate or oblong, ] to 2 in. long, villous, on a long 

 Plowr "^^il'^'^" petiole. Stipules striate, larger than in the other species. 

 Cai,._''V?" I'^cemose, on long hirsute erect peduncles. Pedicels very short, 

 the 2 '^^'■^■^^^o"s, 2 to 2i lines long, the lobes nearly as long as the tube, 

 in th "^^r °"^^ united to about the middle. Standard rather narrower than 

 ana fuir 9^r ^P^'^^' ^°'^^ reflexed, veiy^ hirsute, falcate, f to | in. Ion 

 "y ^ Imes broad, but not ripe in the specimens seen. 



Quee«!^^^i*- ^'"""t'^ Creek, F. Mueller. 



straUa, Cooper's Creek, Bowman, Neilson. 



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^r leas 1 • ^^^^^®s*i»a, JFendL BoL Beob. 54. Steins slender, tw ining, more 

 bet^vee .?^*^ ^^^^ reflexed hairs. Leaflets 3, the terminal one inserted close 

 them tb ^ '^^teral ones or very rai-ely here and there slightly raised above 

 of the ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ h^yt^ often broadly obovate, about i in. long, those 



either n^^?" ^"^^ narrow-lanceolate or linear, \ to U in. long or more, acute, 



learly glabrous above and pubescent with appressed hairs underneath-, 



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