

PLATE DC1I. 



GLYCINE COMPTONIANA 



Comptonian Glycine. 



CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx bilablatus. Corollae carina apice vexil- 



reflectens. 



two-lipped. Keel of the blossom turning 

 back the standard at the end. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Glycine volubilis, foliis ternatis e!ongato-ova«* 



tifi utrinque glabris, petiolis partialibus supra 



pubescentibus, racemis axillaribus multi- 

 Horis. 



Glycine twining; the leaves by threes of a long 

 egg-shape, smooth on both sides j the par- 

 tial footstalks hairy above 5 the bunches la- 

 teral and many- flowered. 



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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE- 



1. The empalement. 



2. The standard. 



3. One of the wings. 



4. The keel. 



5. Chives and pointal. 



& The seed-bud and pointal. 



peciei is a native of New Holland, and belongs to that division of the genus with many. 



seeded pods without any partitions. We find 



but the npe 

 have named 

 ApriL But 



found 



troduced we are uncertain. 



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