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GLYCINE mots. 
- Soft-leaved Glycine. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.—Nar. Orv. LEGUMINOSE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Cal. bilabiatus. Corolle carina apice vexillum reflectens—W. a 
txlycine mollis; molliter pubescens, foliis ternatis ovato-rhombeis acutis, 
resinoso-punctatis racemis folio brevioribus, leguminibus acinacifor- 
mibus turgidis dispermis, caule volubili striato. 
' Stem twining, angular, pubescent. Leaves remotely placed, ternate, petiol 
1-2 inches long: leaflets ovate, or orbicularly rhomboid, acute, clothed 
with avery fine and soft down, and sprinkled with minute resinous dots. 
The lateral leaflets are upon very short’ partial 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. . Ale 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. e : 
Allied to the West Indian Glycine caribeca* 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 LourErro and Dz 
CAaNDOLLE, 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 : 
“ Caj. 5-fidus, subbilabiatus. Corolla papilionacea, seepe calyce minor. Stamina diadel- 
pha; jfilamento solitario basi geniculato. Stylus filiformis, seepe varie flexus. Legumen 
sessile compressum bivalve |-loculare subfalcatum dispermum.—Suffrutices aué Herbze 
scandentes. Folia rarius simplicia, sepius 3-foliolata conjuga cum impari petiolate. Flores 
Jlavi axillares racemost aut solitarii.”” 
VOL. Ill. 
