G L Y 



G L Y 



the skies of the capsule hy the partition : the 

 seeds very numerous, inserted into the recep- 

 tacles. 



The species is G. maculata, Spotted Glox- 

 inia. 



It has a perennial thick fleshy root, divided 

 into knots, which are scaly. The steins are 

 several, about a foot high, thick, succulent, 

 and purplish. The leaves are oblong, thick, 

 sessile, serrate, rough on their upper side, 

 where they are of a dark green, but their under 

 side is purplish. The stems are terminated by 

 short spikes of blue flowers ; or rather an erect 

 raceme, leafy or bractcd ; in which the flowers 

 are axillary, solitary, peduncled, bright blue, 

 and sweet-scented. It is a native of South 

 America. 



Culture. — These plants may be readily in- 

 creased by planting the divided roots in the early 

 spring, in middle-sized pots, filled with good 

 mould, which must be plunged into a fresh tan- 

 bed. After the plants are up they must be often 

 refreshed with a little water, and when the 

 weather is hot have air freely admitted. 



They may also be raised from cuttings of the 

 young shoots, planted and managed in the same 

 way in the summer season. 



They must be constantly kept in the stove in 

 an open situation, and never transplanted when 

 "in leaf, as by that means they are prevented from 

 flowering. 



They afford variety in collections of the 

 stove kind. 



GLYCINE, a genus containing plants of the 

 shrubby climbing kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Diadelphia 

 Decandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Papilionacece. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed, compressed perianthium : mouth two- 

 lipped : upper lip emarginate, obtuse : lower 

 longer, trifid, acute : the middle tooth more 

 produced : the corolla is papilionaceous : ban- 

 ner obcordate, the sides bent down, the back 

 gibbous, the tip emarginate, straight, repelled 

 from the keel : wings oblong, towards the tip 

 ovate, small, bent downwards : ketl linear, 

 sickle-shaped, bent upwards, at the tip pressing 

 the banner upwards, obtuse, towards the tip 

 broader : the stamina have diadelphous fila- 

 ments (simple and nine-cleft), only a little di- 

 vided at the tip, rolled back: anthers simple: 

 the pistillum is an oblong germ: style cylindric, 

 rolled back in a spiral : stigma obtuse : pericar- 

 pium an oblong legume : the seeds kidney- 

 form. 



The species are : 1. G. fmtescens, Shrubby 

 Glycine, or Carolina Kidney-bean Tree ; 2. G. 



b'nimculata, Two-spotted Glycine; 3. G.ruii- 

 cuitda, Reddish-flowered Glycine; 4. G. coc- 

 cinea, Scarlet Glycine. 



The first has woody stalks, which twist 

 themselves together, and also twine round any 

 trees that grow near, and will rise to the height 

 of fifteen feet or more. The leaves arc in shape 

 somewhat like those of the ash-tree, but have a 

 greater number of leaflets. The flowers arc 

 produced in clusters from the axils, and are of a 

 purple colour. They arc succeeded by long cy- 

 lindrical legumes, shaped like those of the Scarlet 

 Kidney-bean, containing several seeds, which are 

 never perfected in this climate. It flowers from 

 June to September. 



The second species rises with a twining 

 shrubby stalk to the height of six or eight feet 

 and more ; multiplying greatly by age, becoming 

 loaded with a profusion of purple flowers grow- 

 ing in racemes; the richness of tne corolla is 

 enlivened by two green spots at the base of the 

 banner. For the most part the flowers go off" 

 in this climate without producing any seed-ves- 

 sels. It begins to flower in February, and con- 

 tinues during the summer. It is a native of 

 Botany Bay. 



The third has a shrubby, slender, twining 

 stem, five or six feet high and more, red, 

 branched, leafy. The leaves ternate, on pe- 

 tioles from an inch to two inches in length, 

 channelled above, round underneath : leaflets 

 ovate or elliptic, quite entire, the two side-ones 

 on very short petioles, the end-one on a petiole 

 half an inch in length, bending and swelling 

 immediately under the leaflet, and having there 

 a pair of deciduous stipules. Almost the whole 

 plant is covered with hairs pressed close. 



The flowers are of a purplish-scarlet colour. 

 It is a native of New South Wales, flowering 

 from April to June. 



The fourth is a shrubby climbing plant, 

 growing to the height of many feet, if sup- 

 ported, and producing a great number of flowers 

 on its pendent branches. The leaflets nearly round, 

 and in the older ones especially curled at the 

 edges. The flowers for the most part in pairs, 

 of a glowing scarlet colour, at the base of the 

 keel somewhat inclined to purple; the bottom 

 of the banner is decorated with a large yellow 

 spot, verging to green. It lloners from April 

 to June, and is a native of New South 

 Wales. 



Culture. — The first sort is increased by lav- 

 ing down the young branches in the early au- 

 tumn. When well rooted in the following au- 

 tumn, they may be taken off and planted where 

 they are to remain, or in nursery-rows, being 

 watered when the weather is hot, and the roots 



