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GLYCINE MOLLIS. 
Soft-leaved Glycine. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA—Nat. Ord. LEGUMINOSM. 
Gen. Char.— tnZ. bilabiatus. Carollae carina apice vexillum reflectens — W. 
Glycine mollis; molliter pubescens, foliis ternatis ovato-rhombeis acutis, 
resinoso-punctatis racemis folio brevioribus, leguminibus acinacifor- 
mibus turgidis dispermis, caule voliibili striate. 
Stem twining, angular, pubescent. Leaves remotely placed, ternate, petiol 
1-2 inches long: leaflets ovate, or orbicularly rhomboid, acute, clothed 
with a very fine and soft down, and sprinkled with minute resinous dots. 
The lateral leaflets are upon very shorfpartial footstalks ; the terminal 
upon a much longer one. 
Flowers rather crowded, upon axillary pedunculated racemes, which are 
shorter than the leaves. Pedicels short. Cal green, glabrous, obtuse, 
with 5 sharp teeth, of which the lower one is rather the longest. Ca- 
rina broadly cordate, reflexed, orange-yellow. Al(B much shorter than 
the carina, deep yellow. Carina paler yellow, about as long as the keel. 
Legumes about an inch long, subacinaciform, turgid, glabrous, acumi- 
nated, 2-seeded. 
Allied to the West Indian Glycine caribcea* of Jacquin ; 
but that has the leaves somewhat villous, more acute, the le- 
gumes hairy, and the racemes of flowers longer and less crowd- 
ed. 
• This, and our Gl. mollis, are now referred to Rhynchosia of Loureiro and De 
Candolle, a genus which I should here have adopted, had the 2d volume of the Pro- 
dromus Syst. Nat. in which it is established, reached me before the name upon the plate 
and in the letter-press had been printed. The genus Rhynchosia is thus characterized : 
" Cal. 5-fidus, subbilabiatus. Corolla papilionacea, sjepe calyce minor. Stamina diadel- 
l±a;Jilamento solitario basi geniculato. Stylus filiformis, ssepe varie flexus. Legumen 
sessile compressum bivalve l-loculare subfalcatum dispermum.— SuflFrutices aut Herbse 
scandentes. Folia rarius simplicia, scspius 3-foliolata conjuga cum impari petiolato. Flores 
Jlavi axillares racemosi aut solitarii.^^ 
VOL. III. 
