178 XLVII. § PAPILIONACE.E (baker). [Shuteria. 



than S. africana, only the very youngest stems slightly adpressed grey-silky, the leaf- 

 lets larger and more oblong, the terminal one 3 in. long by under half as broad, both 

 sides glabrous, the under one subglaucous, similar racemes, stipellae and bracts, the calyx 

 deeply cleft with four lanceolate acuminate teeth, the pod on a stalk which equals the 

 calyx, 15 lines long by 4-5 lines broad, 4-5-seeded. 



54. GLYCINE, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 530. 



Calyx with the two upper teeth more or less connate, the others 

 linear or lanceolate. Standard orbicular, spreading-, subauriculate at 

 the base ; wings narrow, adhering slightly to the shorter obtuse keel. 

 Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous ; anthers uniform, all fertile. 

 Ovary subsessile, multiovulate ; style beardless, slightly incurved ; 

 stigma terminal capitate. Pod linear, usually compressed, two-valved, 

 septate between the seeds, many rarely two-seeded. — Wide-climbing 

 perennials with leaves usually pinnate ly trifoliolate. 



A small genus, confined to the tropics of the Old World. 



Leaves all trifoliolate, seeds many. 



Flowers in copious elongated stalked racemes. 

 Terminal leaflet distinctly stalked. 



End leaflet ovate acute 1. G.javanica. 



. End leaflet papyraceous obovate acute 2. G. micans. 



End leaflet coriaceous obovate blunt 3. G. andongensw. 



Terminal leaflet subsessile 4. G. Petitiana.. 



Flowers 4-6 in congested subsessile racemes 5. G. hedysaroid<s. 



Flowers in pairs in the axils of the leaves . . . . . . 6. G. biflora. 



Leaves simple and trifoliolate intermixed, seeds 2 7. G. Borianii. 



1. G. javanica, L. ; DC. Prod. ii. 242. Stems slender, wide- 

 climbing, more or less densely clothed with silky pubescence. Stipules 

 lanceolate, 2-3 lines, deciduous. Leaflets 3, subcoriaceous, glabrescent 

 above, finely grey downy below; end one ovate, acute, 2— 4 in. long; 

 petiolule 3-6 lines ; lateral ones very unequal-sided. Flowers in copi- 

 ous usually peduncled axillary racemes 3-6 in. long. Bracteoles linear, 

 equalling the calyx. Pedicels very short. Calyx 2— 2J lines, densely 

 silky, the linear teeth equalling the tube. Corolla bright red slightly 

 exserted. Pod linear, an inch long, l|-2 lines broad, nearly straight, 

 densely silky, 4— 6-seeded. — G. micrantha, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 

 No. 8 ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 212. G. moniliformis, Hochst. in Schimp. 

 Hb. Abyss. No. 703 ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 211. Bujacia anonychia, 

 E. Meyer, Comm. 127. 



Upper Guinea. Banks of the Gaboon, Mann I 

 Nile Land. Sennaar, Kotschy ! Abyssinia, Schimper! and others. 

 Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch I 

 Mozamb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Bojer I 



Var. jS. G. longicauda, Schweinf. in Verb. Zool. Bot. Wien, xviii. 658. 

 Stem and leaves below glabrescent ; leaflets larger, reaching 5-6 in. long ; racemes 

 longer and laxer; calyx less densely silky. 

 Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schweinfvrth ! 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. Lower part of the valley of the Shire, Dr. MeUer ! 

 Also a plant of Natal and Tropical Asia. 



