Glycine.] LEGUMINOS^, 281 



Dehra Dun (Eoyle), Siwalik range (Duthie) Disteib, Himalaya from 

 Garhwal to Nepal, Pachmarhi. Dr Prain says that it may easily be 

 distinguished from 8. vestita by its glabrous pods, and by the more 

 hurizontal early-forking secondary nerves of its larger leaflets. 



19. DUMASIA, DC; El. Brit. Ind- ii, 182. 



Climbing herbs. Leaves 3-foliolate ; stipules persistent ; leaflets 

 stipellate, not gland-dotted. Flotrers medium-sized, racemose, bracts 

 persistent. Calyx-tube cylindrical, very gibbous, with an oblique sub- 

 truncate moutb. Corolla exserted ; petals equal ; stadnard spurred 

 on botb sides of tbe base of the limb, wings and keel adherent, with 

 small blades and very long claws. Stamens 2-adelphous ; anthers 

 uniform. Ovary linear, substipitate, few-ovuled ; style long, flatten- 

 ed above its curve, beardless ; stioma capitate. Pod linear, falcate, 

 torulose. — Species 3, inhabiting Trop. Asia and Africa. 



D. villosa, BC. Mem. Leg. 257, t. 44; F. B. I. ii, 183; Royle III, 191. D. 

 congesta, Grah.; W. ^' A. Prod. 206. 



Stems slender, densely clothed with grey or ferruginous hairs. Petioles 

 1-2 in. long ; stipules minute, setaceous ; leaflets ovate, obtuse, mem- 

 branous, green and with a few obscure hairs above, grey and densely 

 pubescent beneath, the end one 2-:^ in long Bace^nes a-B in., lax or 

 rarely close, subsessile ; bracts and hracteoles minute, setaceous. Calyx 

 3-f in., with a few appressed hairs. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, 

 yellow or purplish. Pod 1| in. long, velvety, 3-4-seeded, 



Dehra Dun, Siwalik range and in Bundelkhand. Disteib. Himalaya from 

 Simla to Sikkim and the Khasi Hills, ascending to 6-7,0^0 feet, Paras- 

 nath, S. India and Ceylon ; also in Java, Madagascar and Natal. 



2®. GliYCINE, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 183. 



Twining or suberect herbs. Leaves with 3-7 stipellate leaflets. 

 Flowers in axillary racemes, with minute narrow caducous bracts. 

 Calyx-tiibe campanulate. Corolla usually little exserted; petals 

 about equal in length, standard not distinctly spurred. Stamens 

 more or less completely 1-adelphous, anthers uniform. Ovary sub- 

 sessile, many-ovuled ; style short, incurved, beardless, stigma capitate. 

 Pod linear or linear-oblong, straight or recurved, flat or rather turgid, 

 few-seeded. — Species about 15, spread through the tropics of the old 

 world, also in Australia. 



