Q75 
GLYCINE caribza. 
Trailing Glycine. 
eatin eel 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Leauminos&. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. 
GLYCINE, Supra vol. 3. fol. 261. 
G. caribea, foliis ternatis ovato-rhombeis subtis resinoso-punctatis, racemis 
folio longioribus, leguminibus acinaciformibus dispermis hirsutis, caule 
volubili. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1064. 
Glycine caribaea. Jacq. ic. rar. 1.t. 146. Collect. 1.66. Hort. Kew. 3. 34, 
ed. 2. 4. 298, 
Frutex volubilis ; caules lignosi, cineret, calamum crassi et glabri; (Jacq) 
reliqua planta viscoso-pubescens: rami virentes, hirtiis villosi, teretes. 
Folia distantér alterna, 2 uncias pauld eacedentia, leté virentia, pilosiuscula 
pilis glanduld minuta insitis, subtis efflorescentia resinosd conspersa; foliola 
subrotundo-rhombea, angulari-acuminata acumine producto obtusulo, ramoso- 
nervosa, reticulato-venosa, terminale subunciale, lateralia Jere duplo minora, 
inequilatera latere interiore angustissimo, brevissimé petiolata: petiolus 
‘communis longior Joliolo terminali, strictiusculus, hirsuté villosus, supra 
canaliculatus basi articulatus et cum foliolis: stipulse 2 opposite, ovato-lanceo- 
late, breves, virides, erecto-patentes, eattis glanduloso-pilose, nervoso-striate ; 
partiales nulle. Racemi avillares, solitarii, raritis divist, longiores foliis, 
erecti, pluri-multi (4-20)-flori, 3-5-unciales: pedunculus gracilis, villosus, 
JHlexuosus; flores subsemunciales, flavi, brevissimé pedicellati; pedicelli 
bractea parvd ovatd acuté herbacea pubescente caduca ad basin stipati (flos 
terminalis bracted altera superiore subulata). Cal. 4-partitus pallide virens, 
glanduloso-pubescens, duplo feriae corolla, bilabiatus, subcompressus; labium 
superius brevius ovato-attenuatum dorso profundé convexum gibbosum apice 
bifidum lobulis acutis, inferius rectum trifidum segmentis lanceolato-subulatis, 
imo medio lateralibus duplo longiore. Corollz petala aquilonga; vex. stria- 
tum, reflecum, obcordato-rotundum, extts villosum, striis purpureis incom 
pletis pictum, basi lamine anticé supra unguem carunculd viridi semicirculari- 
prominuld munitum, indéque utrinque convoluto-auriculatum; ungue net 
tudine calycis convexo: ale oblonga, biunguiculata, 3-plo angustiores vexillo, * 
carinam concludentes, fulvescentes, obtus@: car. porrecta, subfalcata, venosa, 
pallida, inflatiuscula, subventricosa, obtusissima, supra aperta, infra partim 
cohcerens, petalo utrogue apice purpureo-maculato. Vil. diadelpha (. simples et 
Q-fidum) cequalia, preter decimum brevitér divisa: anth. oblonga, breves, 
lutee, erecta. Germ. dispermum, subfalcato-oblongum, brevius stylo, sericeo~ 
hirsutum: stylus albus, porrecto-assurgens, glaber, medio carnoso-tumidus 
vel fusiformi-incrassatus: stig. punctum oblique depressum simplicissimum. 
Leg. compressum, viscoso-hirsutum, oblongum, mucronato-acuminatum. 
t 
A West Indian species, introduced by Lord Petre about 
the year 1742. The plant from which the drawing has been 
taken, was raised from Janes seed, at Mr. Herbert’s, 
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