1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosoe. 403 



b. Var. bracteosa ; bracts persistent. S. bracteosa G. B. Clarke MSS. Pueravia 

 strobilifera Kurz MSS. 



Sikkim ; Clarke n. 13493 ! Khasja ; Q. Mann ! Collett ! Clarke n. 40383 ! 



Both Mr. Brace and Mr. Clarke have independently noted their belief that 

 this plant is a species of Shuteria distinct from any yet described, and in this they 

 only share an opinion noted at a still earlier date by Mr. Kurz who, however, 

 placed it, as he did S. hirsuta, in Pueraria. 



The calyx-teeth of the Sikkim plant are rather shorter than in genuine S. 

 ferruginea, but its bracts are exactly like those of the Khasia plant, in all three 

 go.therings of which it is impossible to find a floral character that will separate 

 the form from the Nepal one. None of the gatherings of either variety has ripe 

 fruits and in their absence the writer has not ventured to follow Mr. Clarke and the 

 other botanists whose opinion is quoted, in giving it specific rank. Should its validity 

 as a species be ultimately established, the plant, if accepted as a Shuteria, will be 

 known as S. bracteosa Clarke ; should it prove a Pueraria, it will be P. strobilifera 

 Kurz. 



46. Shuteria involucrata W. Sf A. Prodr. 207. S. vestita var. 

 involucrata Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 182. 



North-West Himalaya and Nepal ; common. 



This species is quite distinct from S. vestita ; it is very closely related, however, 

 to S. suffulta Bth., which is the representative form in Burma and which might be 

 reduced to S. involucrata, as a variety, with rather more justice than S. densiflora 

 can possibly be to S. vestita. 



58. GLYCINE Linn. 



1. Glycine javanica Linn. 



Add to distribution : — Sumatra (Forbes !) 



2. Glycine pentaphylla Dalz. 



Becent specimens of this from Canara, collected by Mr. Talbot, have all the 

 leaves 7-foliolate. 



3. Glycine hispida Maxim. Mel. Biol. ix. 70 (1873). Soja hispida 

 Moench ; DC. Prodr. ii. 396. Glycine Soja Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 

 266 ; Bah. in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 184, not of Sieb. 8f Zucc. The Soy Bean. 



Mr. Maximowicz in 1873 pointed out that Glycine Soja S. & Z. is not the culti- 

 vated " Soy," but is the wild species that was subsequently redescribed by Begel and 

 Maack as Glycine ussuriensis. For this reason Mr. Maximowicz suggested the use 

 of the name Glycine hispida, since Moench had named the " Soy " Soja hispida and 

 because that name had become almost classical owing to its use in the Prodromus. 

 As Sir J. D. Hooker and Mr. Jackson have adopted Mr. Maximowicz' suggestion in 

 their Index Kewensis, and as Mr. Duthie has also followed it in his Field and Garden 

 Crops, it is necessary to indicate the fact here. There is, however, no doubt that the 

 " Soy " is Roxburgh's Dolichos Soja audit is almost equally certain that it is Dolichos 

 Soja Linn. ; it would therefore, in the writer's opinion, be far better to retain the 

 name Glycine Soja for our plant, citing as our authority Bentham in Journ. Linn. 

 8oc. viii. 266 and allow the name G. ussuriensis to be substituted for that of the 

 wild species previously named G. Soja by Siebold and Zuccarini. 



Mr. Baker says of the Soy, ' often cultivated ' ; this might lead to the supposi- 



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