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GLYCINE vincentina. 
Glycine of St. Vincents Island. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOS#. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Corolla irregularis 
papilionacea. Legumen uniloculare bivalve. Frutices aut herbe; folia sim- 
plicia aut ternata aut rarius digitata; stipule nunc subnulle, nunc conspicux 
imo petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincte.—PAPILIONACE&. Brown in 
append. to Flind. voy. 2. 552. 
GLYCINE. Supré vol. 3. fol. 261. 
Flores melino-lutescentes. Folia utrinque glabra mucronulata stipule 
bine. Cal. corolla pluriés brevior, cano-virescens, membranaceus, tubu- 
losus, 5-fido-bilabiatus, extus glandulis raris viridissimis spinuld recta pre- 
jfixis obsitus, fundo carnoso solido cum pedicello attenuato continuo: La- 
bium superius inferiore distans, segmentis filiformi-subulatis ab invicem dis- 
tinctis acutis muticis recurvis longitudiné fere tubi; inferioris equalitér dis- 
tantibus rectis appressis, superioris similibus subbrevioribus, seta subtili pre- 
fixis: pedicellus Silsformiis subuncialis spinulis nonnullis glandulosis curvatis 
hie inde sparsus. Vexillum oblongo-obcordatum, rigidiusculum, apice bifi- 
dum, erecto-distans, ungue lato brevi: ale cuneate, vewillo equilongo duplo 
angustiores apice obtuso obliquo: carina pallida, inclusa, petalis alarum sub- 
conformibus. Stamina diadelpha; antheris lutescentibus incumbentibus. 
Pistillum staminibus equale: germen viride polyspermum ovulis protube- 
rantibus nodulatum lineare angustum calycem superans: stylus continuus vil- 
loso-albicans compressus filiformt-subulatus germinit equalis. 
“a 
Native of the Island of St. Vincent’s; from whence it 
was introduced into the garden of Comtesse de Vandes, at 
Bayswater. 
It has been known by the name of Guycine Andersoni ; 
but Gurycine is filled with heterogeneous members, and, 
like the rest of the natural order to which it belongs, is in 
great need of reform. The present species should probably 
form the basis of a new genus. It was first observed, as 
we are told, by Dr. Anderson. 
