232 LUGUMINOSJS. [Teeamnus. 



G. Soja, Benth. in Journ. Linn. 8oc. viii, 26 1 .•* F. B.I. ii, 184 {not of 

 Sieh. Sf Zucc.) G. hispida, Maxim. ; Watt E. D. ; Field Sf Gard. Crops Hi, 

 3, t' 85 ; t'rain in Journ. As. 8oc. Beng, LXVI (1897), 403. Soja hispida, 

 Mosnch. ; W.(^A.Prod 247. Dolichos Soja, Linn. ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. Hi, 

 314; DC. L'Orig. PL Cult 264. Vern. Bhat. (Soybean, Japan pea). 



An annual, with, stout suberect or climbing stems, densely clothed with 

 fine rusty-coloured hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate, long-petioled ; leaflets 2-4 

 in. long, ovate, usually acute. Racemes sessile, few-flowered Calyx 

 z in., densely hairy ; teeth long, setaceous. Corolla reddish-purple, 

 not much exserted. Pods --3 in the axils of the leaves, 1^-2 in. long, 

 linear-oblong, recurved, densely pubescent, subtorulose, S-l-seeded. 



Sparingly cultivated within the area, and confined to a few of the Sub- 

 Himalayan districts. It is grown more extensively on the lower slopes 

 of the Himalaya up to 6,0i)0 feet, from the Punjab eastwards ; also in 

 Bengal, on the Khasia, Manipur and Naga Hills, and in Burma, but 

 nowhere in India has it been found truly wild. DeCandolle considered 

 the plant to be a native of Cochin China, Japan and Java at the time 

 when the ancient inhabitants of that region began to cultivate it, and to 

 use it as food As grown within the area of this flora, and in other parts 

 of India, it represents a very inferior form of soy bean It is a rainy- 

 season crop, and is usually sown in very poor land. Under proper 

 cultivation the chemical composition of the bean shows it to be the 

 richest of all the pulses in albuminoids and oil. In China and Japan 

 various preparations are made from it, including soy-sauce, which is 

 largely exported from those countries. The plant affords very excellent 

 fodder fur all kinds of stock, if harvested before it is fully matured. 



21. TERAMNUS, Sw. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 184. 



Twining herbs of slend-ir habit. Calyx-tuhe campanulate ; teeth 

 distinct, sub equal or tbe 2 upper not so long. Corolla little exserted, 

 petals about equal in length, standard not spurred. Stamens 1-adel- 

 phous ; alternate anthers small, abortive. Ovary sessile, many- 

 ovTiled ; style short, curved, beardless, stigma capitate. Tod linear, 

 hooked with the persistent style at the tip, flattish, septate between 

 the seeds. — Species 6, found in tbe tropics of botb hemispheres. 



The Russian botanist, Maximowicz, having, in 1873. shown that Q. Soja of Sieb. and 

 Zucc. is not tho cultivated soy, but the wild species, afterwai'ds named G. ussurien* 

 sis by Eegel and Maack, sug^gested the use of the name G. hispida for the 

 cultivated plant, thus retaining the specific epithet of Moeneh and DeCandolle. 

 Dr. Prain, however, remarks (in Jorrn, As. Soe. Beng. I.e.) that the soy is no 

 doubt Roxburgh's Dolichos Soja. and is most probably I). Soja, of Linnaeus, and 

 therefore it would be better to retain the name G. Soja for our plant, citing 

 Bentham as the authority, and letting the name G. ussuriensis stand for the wild 

 species, which was previously named G. Soja by Siebold and Zuccarini. 



