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Tateral ones oval: calyx glabrous, or slightly hairy : flowers solitary 
from each bract. 
Cunnawady. 
GENUS XVII. JOHNIA. 
Diadelphia Deeandria. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. Called after Dr. John, the founder of the Missionary 
Garden at Tranquebar. ; 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx deeply 5-cleft: lower segment slightly 
longer, 2 upper combined to above the middle: bracteoles 2,as long 
as the calyx and below its base: corolla papilionaeeaus, shorter, 
than the calyx: vexillum oblong-obovate, nearly twice the length 
of the other petals: keel entire, free from the wings: style ensi- 
form: stigma capitate : legume linear, pointed with the base of the 
style, hairy, 4-5-seeded, with partitions between the seeds: seeds. 
flattish, peritropal. 
: (1) J. Wiewtrn. (WW. § A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I, p. 208. 
Spec. Cuar. Twining, covered with brownish hairs: leayes 
pinnately trifoliolate: leaflets hairy, roundish-ovate, 3-nerved at 
the base: racemes axillary, at first dense, afterwards elongated, 
with the flowers distant: legumes reflexed. 
Dindigul Hills. Mysore. Colemala. 
(2) J. concesta. (Dalz. Mss. ) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 69. 
Spxc. Cuar. Stems twining, filiform, clothed with soft white 
hairs: leaves trifoliolate: leaflets small, broad-ovate, very acute: 
stipules oblong, acute, strongly 4-nerved: peduncles axillary, solitary, 
not longer than the stipules, 2-3-flowered : legumes reflexed, com- 
pressed, flat, linear, slightly falcate, puberulous, 5-6-seeded : valves 
united between the seeds. . 
Sewnere. Hill Fort. 
GENUS XVIII. GLYCINE. 
Monadelphia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Glukys, sweet. The leaves and roots of some of 
the species are sweet. 
Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous or suffrutescent twining plants : leaves 
pinnately trifoliolate: leaflets with 2 stipules near the base: ra- 
cemes axillary, interrupted: calyx somewhat bilabiate, upper lip 
bifid, lower trifid and more deeply cleft than the upper: segments 
