192 L. LEQUMiNOSJi. (J. G. Baker.) IGalaetia. 



65. GAI.ACTXA, P. Br. 



Twining herbs, with 3-foliolate stipellate leaves, like Glycine in habit, but 

 with the nodes of the raceme slightly tumid. Calyx-tube short ; teeth linear or 

 lanceolate, the two uppermost entirely fused in one. Corolla little exserted ; ita 

 petals nearly equal in length ; keel obtuse, nearly straight. Stamens diadelph- 

 ous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessUe, many-oTiiled ; style long, filiform, beard- 

 less, stigma capitate. Tod linear, flattened, recurved. — Distkib. Species 45, 

 mostly Tropical American. 



1. G-. tenuiflora, W. Sr A. Prodr. 206 ; leaflets small obtuse, flowers in 

 pairs from the distant nodes of elongated racemes, hairs of calyx very short ad- 

 pressed. Glycine temdflora, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 241 ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii 

 319. 



Plains from the foot of the Himalayas to Ceylon and Siam. — Distkib. Katal, 

 Zambesi-land, Australia, Malay isles. 



Stems very slender, obscurely grey-downy. Stipules deciduous, minute ; petiole 

 1-11 jn. ; leaflets ovate or oblong, 1^2 in. long, membranous, green, glabrescent 

 above, grey, obscurely silky below. Sacemes copious, peduncled, ^-^ ft. long. Calyx 

 ^-J in. long, finely grey silky ; teeth lanceolate acuminate, exceeding the tube. Co- 

 rolla reddish, ^ in. long. Fad 1^-2 in. by J in., glabrescent, 6-8-seeded. 



Vae. 1. hicida ; leaflets linear-oblong subcoriaceous glabrous on both surfaces- 

 sublucent abpve, flowers smaller. Glycine lucida, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5511. G. 

 graminea, Heyne MSS. — Western Peninsula. 



Vae. 2. minor; stems very slender, leaflets and flowers smaller, the former 

 oblong ^-1 in. long thinly grey silky below, corolla J-J in. long, pod 1 in. long 

 glabrous 4-5-seeded. Lencodictyon malvensis, Balz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Flora, 73. G. 

 tenuiflora, Wall. Cat. 5509 A. — Western Peninsula. 



Vab. 3. villosa ; stems leaves below and pods densely grey-downy, leaflets oblong 

 1-li^ in. long, flowers fewer and smaller than in the tvpe. G. villosa, W. ^ A. Frodr. 

 207.' Glycine tenuiflora. Wall. Cat. 5509, B, C. G."filiformis, Wall. Cat. 6510 and 

 5519. — Western Peninsula. 



Tab. 4. latifolia ; stems and leaves below densely pubescent, leaflets subcoria- 

 ceous roundish lJ-2 in. long, racemes elongated, calyx hoary more deeply cleft. 



Concan, Stoclcs. 



2. Ct. 1 oxyphylla, JBenth. PI. Jungh. 233 ; leaflets large acute, flowers 

 2-4 in axillary nearly sessile cymes, hairs of calyx long and silky. Glycine 

 oxyphylla, Cfrah. in Wall. Cat. 6622. 



Tenasseeim ; Tavoy, Gomez. Amherst, Farish. 



Stems slender, clothed with conspicuous spreading deciduous ferruginous hairs. 

 Petioles 2-3 in. ; leaflets membranous, green, subconcolorous, with a few adpressed 

 hairs on both surfaces, oblong, 3-4 in. long, ^racis lanceolate, nervose, subpersistent ; 

 bracteoles linear, as long as the tube. Calyx | in. long ; teeth linear-setaceous, 2-3' 

 times as long as the tube, plumose. Corolla reddish, ^ in. long. Pod unknown. Re- 

 cedes from Galactia by its cymose inflorescence and persistent nervose bracts. 



66. COCKIiZAITTHirS, Benth. 



A climbing herb. Leaves pinnately 8-foliolate, stipellate. Flowers racemed. 

 Calyx-tube campanulate; teetii short, the lowest longest, lanceolate, the two 

 upper fused into one. Corolla much exserted, the petals nearly equal in leni^h ;. 

 standard broad ; keel narrow, curved, rounded at the end in a semicircle, "sta- 

 mens diadelphous ; anthers uidform. Ovary short-stipitate, many-ovuled" ; style 



