Glycine.] LeguminoSCB. 59 



A twining herb, stems slender with long internodes, 

 glabrous or with few adpressed hairs; l.-rachis 2-4 in., swollen 

 at base, stip. small, linear, lflts. shortly stalked, \\- 2 in., ovate, 

 very obtuse, apiculate, glabrous on both sides or with very 

 few hairs beneath; fi. moderate -sized, on slender ped., 

 arranged in racemes which are either of 3 or 4 fl. and much 

 shorter than 1., or of 12-20 fi., and equalling 1.; cal. quite 

 glabrous, persistent; pod about i^in., stalked and exserted 

 beyond persistent cal., linear, straight, sharply beaked, toru- 

 lose, perfectly glabrous ; seeds 2 or 3, ovoid, \ in., black and 

 shining. 



Upper montane zone ; common. Fl. Feb., March ; pale yellow. 

 Also in the Indian mountains, and in Java, Madagascar, and Natal. 

 The ordinary form of this species has the stem densely hairy, and the 

 leaves very pubescent beneath ; but this has not been found in Ceylon. 



24. GLYCINE, L. 



Herbaceous twiner, 1. 3-foliolate, with stipels, fi. small* 

 numerous, in narrow racemes; cal. with a campanulate tube, 

 segm.long, filiform; pet. about equal, not longer than cal.-segm.; 

 stam. monadelphous, anth. uniform, all fertile; style beardless, 

 stigma capitate ; pod linear, straight, 2-4 seeded, with septa 

 between seeds. — Sp. 12; 3 in Fl. B. Ind. 



G-. javanica, L. Sp. PL 754 (1753). Goradiya, S. 

 Moon Cat. 53. Benth. in journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 266. Soya Wiqhtii, 

 Grah., Thw. Enum. 88. G. P. 1477. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 183. 



An herbaceous twiner, stems somewhat angular, clothed 

 with deflexed hair, young shoots very silky; l.-rachis 2-3 in., 

 with deflexed hair, stip. small, triangular, acute, lflts. shortly 

 stalked, i\-2\ in., broadly oval (the lat. ones unequal-sided), 

 subacute, strongly apiculate, softly hairy on both sides, paler 

 beneath with the lat. veins strongly marked ; fl. small, 

 numerous, on short, slender, hairy ped., crowded in narrow, 

 rather dense, shortly stalked, axillary racemes 1-6 in. long, 

 bracts long, filiform, hairy; cal.-segm. setaceous, plumose; pod 

 nearly 1 in., linear, compressed, pointed, densely hairy, some- 

 what compressed between seeds. 



Low country ; common. Fl. Nov., Dec. 

 Also in India, Java, and Trop. Africa. 

 Appears to be sometimes cultivated as a pulse. 



