Glycine.~] LEGUMINOSAE. 351 



many-ovuled, linear ; style long, filiform, incurved, flattened at 

 the curve, not bearded ; stigma capitate. Pod subsessile, linear, 

 compressed, torulose. Szeds subglobose, estrophiolate, the testa 

 hard, blue-black. 



DUMASIA VILLOSA, DC. ; F. B. I. ii. 183. D. congests, W. & A. 

 206 ; Wt. Ic. t. 445. 



W. Ghats, Hills of Mysore, the Nilgiris and Pulneys, above 



6,000 ft. 



A slender climber with ovate obtuse apicnlate often velvety 



leaflets, yellow flowers and a velvety torulose pod. 



35. Glycine, Linn. 



Herbs, twining or prostrate, rarely suberect. Leaves pinnately 

 3-7-foliolate ; stipules small ; stipels subulate. Flowers small, in 

 axillary racemes, solitary or fascicled on the rhachis ; bracts 

 small ; bracteoles setaceous or linear, sometimes long. Calyx- 

 tube campanulate, teeth long or short, the upper connate at the 

 base or for half their length. Corolla hardly exserted ; standard 

 suborbiculate, slightly auricled above the claw; wings narrow, 

 auricled, more or less connate with the shorter obtuse keel. 

 Stamens at first monadelphous, the vexillary one afterwards free. 

 Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled ; style short, incurved ; stigma 

 capitate. Pod linear or linear-oblong, septate between the seeds. 

 Seeds slightly compressed, estrophiolate. 



Leaves 3-foliolate ; bracteoles and calyx- teeth long, very villous ; pod 



densely villous, deflexed, torulose 1. javanica. 



Leaves 5-7-foliolate ; bracteoles minute, calyx-teeth short, deltoid; 

 pod flat, appressed pub3S 'out, spreading, not torulose 



2. pentaphylla. 



1. GLYCINE JAVANICA, Linn. ; F. B. 1. ii. 183. Notonia Wightii, 

 W. & A. 208. Johnia Wight Ii, W. & A. 449. 



W. Ghats, Hills of Mysore, Nilgiris and Pulneys, up to 

 6,000 ft, 



An extensively climbing plant with reddish flowers in long 

 dense racemes and large pubescent leaflets, the side ones 

 unequally ovate -cor date, the end one rhomboid-ovate. 



2. GLYCINE PENTAPHYLLA, Dalz. ; F. B. I. ii. 184. 



W. Ghats, in Wynaad (Beddome). 



A large climbing herb with reddish flowers in long spicate 



