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Herb. Kew) ; in dried-up clayey fields flooded in the summer, in dry 

 sandy places, on plains flooded in the rainy season, and in fields 

 after a ] crop of maize, Loanda (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PI. i. p. 248), 

 in dry sandy ground climbing over Euphorbias, Golungo Alto 

 (Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e.) ; at an altitude of 2000 ft., Taita Hills, B.E. 

 Africa (Grenfell, Herb. Kew); 4000 ft., W. Ankou, Uganda (Da we, 

 Herb. Kew). 



It is a handsome decorative plant, and well worthy of cultivation 

 for this purpose. 



Ref. — " Clitorea Ternatea" in Diet. Econ. Prod. India, Watt, ii. 

 1889, pp. 375-377. 



Glycine, Linn. 



Glycine Soja, Sieb. & Zucc, in Abh. Akad. Muench. iv. 11 (1843), 

 p. 119. [Glycine hispida, Maxim., in Bull. Acad. Petersb. xviii. 

 (1873), p. 3981. 



Annual ; stems sub-erect or climbing ; 1^ to 4 ft. densely clothed 

 with fine ferruginous hairs. Leaves trifoliate with petioles 3-6 in. 

 long ; leaflets membranous, ovate, acute, 2-4 in. long by 1-^-2 in. 

 broad. Calyx densely hairy. Corolla reddish, slightly exserted. 

 Pods usually only 2-3 in the axil of each leaf, densely pubescent 

 1J-2 in. long, ^-| in. broad. Seeds 3 or 4 in each pod ; spherical, 

 or nearly so, sometimes flattened, about ^ in. in diameter ; black, 

 brown, yellow, green or mottled, according to the variety. 



III.— Agric. Gaz. N.S. Wales, ii. Nov. 1891, t. 61 (Soja hispida) ; 

 Duthie, Field Crops, iii. t. 85 ; Church, Food Grains, India, 

 t, 26 ; Engl. & Prantl. Pflan. iii. pt. 3, f. 131 B-D ; Transv. Dept. 

 Agric. Ann. Rep. 1903-04, p. 270, t, 1 ; Irish, 12th Report Missouri 

 Bot. Gdn. 1901, t, 44, ft. 6-7 (seed, yellow soy) ; f. 8 (seed, black soy); 

 f. 9 (seed, green soy) ; f. 10 (seed, Etampes soy) ; t. 46 (branch with 

 pods) ; Ball, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau PI, Industry, Bull. No. 98, 

 1907, t. 1 (soy bean varieties, coloured seeds), t. 2 (seeds and pods of 

 the black-seeded group), t. 3 (ibid, brown-seeded and mottled-seeded 

 groups), t. 4 (ibid, green-seeded and greenish -yellow-seeded groups), 

 t. 5 (ibid. yellow 7 seeded group) ; Vilmorin Andrieux, PI. Potageres, 

 p. 658 (Soja, d'Etampes ; Soja ordinaire) ; Bull. Econ. Indo-Chine, 

 1905, p. 1159. U. S. Dept. of Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 372, 1909, 

 p. 5, f. 1, p. 8, f. 3 (seeds and pods of seven varieties). 



Vernac. names. — Yuan Tow, Ching Tow, Pai-mei-Tow (Newch- 

 wang, Ayrton) ; Kachang-Kadele Putik (Borneo, Motley) ; Daizu 

 Japan (U Agric. an Japon, Exp. Univ. de (1900) Paris, p. 50). 



Soy Bean, Soja Bean, China Bean, White Gram, American Coffee 

 Berry, Japan Pea. 



Cultivated in the warmer parts of Manchuria, China, Japan, India, 

 Africa, America, &c. Under experimental cultivation in several 

 British Colonies, including Nigeria and other parts of West Africa. 



The plant is grown in America as a forage crop ; for green fodder, 

 hay, and ensilage. Like many other leguminous plants it hns a 

 special value under cultivation as a green manure. 



In Japan and China the beans are largely used in the preparation 

 of the sauce known commercially as ** Soy," and there is also a pre- 

 paration made from them called " Soya Milk." This so-called milk 

 consists of the bean made into a thin paste with water, boiled, and 



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