Clitoria.] 
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any stropkiole. — Herbs or shrubs, short and erect or with long twining branches. 
Leaves pinnate with 3 or several leaflets, or occasionally only 1, usually stipellate. 
Stipules persistent, striate. Flowers large, solitary or clustered in the axils, or in 
pairs crowded in short racemes. Bracts stipule-like, persistent, the lower ones 
in pairs, the upper ones united into one. Bracteoles like the bracts or larger, 
persistent. 
A considerable American genus, with a few African and Asiatic tropical species. The genus 
is readily distinguished by its large tubular calyx. — Benth. 
Stems erect, flexuose. Leaflets 1 or 3 1. C. australis 
Stems climbing. Leaflets 5 to 7 2. C. ternatea 
1. C. australis (Australian), Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 242. Stems herbaceous 
but hard, erect, flexuose, 1 to 2ft. high, scarcely branched, pubescent with 
appressed silky hairs. Leaflets 1 or 3, ovate, obtuse, rarely shortly acuminate, 
l\ to 2|in. long, glabrous above, silky-pubescent underneath, the lateral ones 
when present smaller and at a distance from the terminal one. Stipules broadly 
lanceolate. Peduncles axillary, very short, bearing a cluster of 2 or 3 pairs of 
white flowers nearly ljin. long. Bracts narrow, acuminate. Calyx about fin. 
long, the lobes acuminate and acute, about as long as the tube. Standard nearly 
l^in. long, wings and keel scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod not seen. 
Hab.: ? This is given because I have received from North Queensland fragments which 
likely belong to this plant. 
2. *c. ternatea (from Ternateon, of the Molucca Islands), Linn.; DC. 
Prod. ii. 223. A wide-climbing plant with slender slightly pubescent stems. 
Leaves imparipinnate, with 5 to 7 subcoriaceous stipellate oblong leaflets 1 to 2in. 
long. Flowers solitary on short pedicels in the axils of the leaves. Bracteoles 
round, 3 to 6 lines long. Calyx 6 to 9 lines long, the oblong-lanceolate teeth half 
as long as the tube. Corolla 15 to 18 lines long, standard bright blue or white 
with an orange throat lin. or more broad. Pod linear, 3 to 4in. long, 8 to 
10-seeded. — Bot. Mag. t. 1542 ; Ternatea vulgaris, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. vi. 415. 
Hab.: A stray from garden culture in most tropical countries. Common in tropical Queens- 
land scrubs. 
52. GLYCINE, Linn. 
(The roots of some species sweet.) 
(Leptolobium, altered to Leptocyamus, Bentli.) 
Calyx 2 upper lobes united in a 2-toothed or 2-lobed upper lip. Standard 
nearly orbicular, without inflexed auricles at the base ; wings narrow, slightly 
adhering to the keel ; keel obtuse, shorter than the wings. Upper stamen at first 
united with the others in a closed tube, often becoming at length free ; anthers 
uniform. Ovary nearly sessile, with several ovules ; style short, incurved, with a 
terminal stigma. Pod linear or falcate, 2-valved, with a pithy substance between 
the seeds, the base of the style forming a very short straight or rarely hooked 
point. Seeds not strophiolate. — Twining or prostrate herbs, with a perennial 
often thick or woody rootstock and usually pubescent or villous. Leaflets 3, or 
rarely 5 or 7, in opposite pairs, entire or rarely sinuately 3-lobed, stipitate. 
Flowers usually very small, in axillary racemes, singly scattered along the 
rhachis, the lower ones often solitary or clustered in the axils without a common 
peduncle, and sometimes without or almost without petals. Bracts small, 
setaceous ; bracteoles narrow or minute, usually persistent. 
The genus as now limited, comprising Soja, DC., and Johnia , Wight and Arn., neither of them 
Australian, extends over tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia. The following species 
belong to a section Leptocyamus, differing from the others only in the flowers being distinct 
from each other, not clustered along the rhachis of the raceme. Two of these species are also 
found in the Indian Archipelago, the remaining three are endemic, some of them perhaps 
