302 XLViii, leguminos.t:. 



Flowers in axillary 6-20-flowered racemes 2-4 in. long ; rhachis slender, 

 hairy ; pedicels ^ in. long ; bracts subulate, hairy, j\^ in. long. Calyx 

 g in. long, clothed when young with silky hairs, soon glabrescent, the 

 luouth obliquely truncate, the base saccate. Corolla ^-§ in. long, pale 

 yellow. Pods H in. long, linear, straight, torulose, velvety. Seeds 3-4, 

 ellipsoid, -^ in. long, black, shining. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 183 ; Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V. 2, p. 58 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 424. 

 D. congesta, Grab, in AVall. Cat. 5524 ; Wight, Icon. t. 445. — Flowers : 

 Oct.-Nov. 



A rare plant. I have found it only at Mahableshwar along one of the paths close 

 to Bombay Point, and it has never been brought to me by any of the plant collectors. 

 — DisTRiB. India (Himalayas and hills of the Western Peninsula); Ceylon, Java, 

 Madagascar, Natal. 



36. GLYCINE, Linn. 



Twining or prostrate herbs, rarely suberect. Leaves pinnately 3-7- 

 foliolate ; stipules small. Leaflets stipellate. Flowers small, in axillary 

 racemes, solitary or fascicled along the rhachis ; bracts and bracteoles 

 small. Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth distinct, long or short. Corolla 

 usually but little exserted ; standard subauricled at the base ; wings 

 narrow, adhering to the keel ; keel shorter than the wings, obtuse. 

 Stamens monadelphous, or the vexillary stamen at length free ; anthers 

 uniform. Ovary subsessile ; ovules many ; style slightly incurved, 

 usually short, beardless ; stigma capitate. Pod linear or linear-oblong, 

 2-valved. Seeds few. — Disteib. Tropical Asia and Africa, Australia ; 

 species about 12, 



Leaves 3-foliolate 1. G.Javanica. 



Leaves 5-7-foliolate 2. G. pentaphylla. 



1. Glycine javanica, Limi. Sp. Ph (1753) p. 754, An extensive 

 herbaceous twiner ; stems somewhat angular, slender, densely clothed 

 with deflexed grey or fulvous hairs ; young shoots silky. Leaves 3- 

 f oliolate ; petioles Ig-S^ in. long, hairy ; stipules ^ in. long, triangular, 

 nerved, densely hairy. Leaflets 2-4i by l-l— 3 (the terminal slightly 

 larger than the lateral, the lateral unequal-sided, the lower side the 

 largest), broadly ovate, subacute, mucronate, glabrous or nearly so above, 

 appressedly hairy and pale beneath ; stipels linear-subulate. Flowers 

 numerous, crowded in narrow (usually dense) axillary racemes 1-6 in. 

 long; pedicels short, slender, hairy; bracts l in. long, linear-subulate, 

 persistent, hairy. Calyx g— ^ in. long, densely silky ; teeth longer than 

 the tube, subulate, plumose. Corolla 4- in. long, reddish. Pods 1 by i in., 

 linear, compressed, straight, densely appressedlv hairy. Seeds 4-5, 

 Fl. B. L V. 2, p. 183; Trim. Fl, Ceyl. v, 2, p. 59; Woodr. in Journ, 

 Bomb. Nat. v, 11 (1897) p. 424,— Flowers : Nov. 



KoNKAN : Stocksl S. M. Country : Belgaum, Rifckie, 2131 Kanara : KAla naddi, 

 Ritchie I— DisrniB. India (Western Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Tropical Africa, Natal, Java. 



2, Glycine pentaphylla, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 4 (1852) 

 p. 344. A large twining herb ; stems slender, with a few appressed silky 

 hairs. Leaves reaching 9 in. long, 5-7-foliolate ; petioh'S |-2| in. long, 

 appressedly silky ; stipules small, linear-subulate, caducous. Leaflets 1-4 

 bv n~l^ i^-' opposite (the terminal the longer), oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 mucronate, glabrous above, appressedly silky beneath, closely reticulately 



