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GLYCINE comptoniana. 
Lady Northampton’s Glycine. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosm@. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V- 
GLYCINE. Supra vol. 3. fol. 261. 
&. comptoniana, glabra; ramis teretibus margine brevissimo quandrangulatis, 
foliis ternatis petiolatis, foliolis oblongo-ovatis obtusissimis cum mucrone, 
racemis multifloris longioribus petiolo, pedicellis geminatis. 
Glycine comptoniana. Andrews’s reposit. 602. 
Frutex lignosus volubilis, ascendenti-ramosus, ramis fusco-virentibus. Fol. 
alterna, remota, -subtriuncialia, obscuré -viridia, reticulato-venosa, _foliolis 
lateralibus articulo crasso flexili petiolo annexis, medio pauld majore sesqui- 
unciam feré longo: petiolus strictus, striatus, canaliculatus, articulo tumido 
affixus cauli: stipula communes gemine, semiovate, aristato-acuminate, 
subrubentes, partiales minute, lineari-subulate, rubide. Racemi simplices, 
axillares, erecti, subbiunciales, longiores petiolo, laxits multiflort, pedunculo 
basi 2-bracteato, flecuoso, striato, virentt, pedicellis collaterali-geminis, per 
paria alternis, subbreviores corolla, intervalla florum subaquantibus, angulosis,: 
cum calyce articulatis. Flores violacet, 4 uncie circitér longi, erectiuscult. 
Cal. subcoloratus, plis quam duplo brevior corolla, tubuloso-campanulatus, bi- 
labiatus, dorso gibbosus, margine subvillosus, labio summo breve 2-fido lobulis 
acutis rectis, infimo 3-fido segmentis equalibus stellato-patentibus, acuminatis, 
mucronatis. Vex. obcordato-orbiculatum, violaceum, reflecum, medio macula 
alba didymé viridi pictd insignitum, obsolete unguiculatum: ale isti equi; 
longe, concolores, porrect@, ad carinam a plane interior appress@, dolabrifor- 
mes, ungue bifurco brevi: car. remota vexillo, pallida, duplo minor alis quibus 
conclusa, é petalis 2 falcatis obtusis, unguibus inequali-bicruribus albis. Fil. 
diadelpha, non multim longiora calyct, supra cum angulo acutiori ascendentia : 
anth. chloroleuce, ovato-subrotunde, polline grumoso-granulato. Germ. 
glabrum, compresso-lineare, sessile, longitudine calycis, stylo breve isoperime= 
tro continuo incurvo terminatum ; stig. punctum obtusum puberulum. 
In the nurseries the resemblance of the blossom of this 
species to that of Kennepia monophylla has raised the 
opinion, that it belongs to the same genus. But Mr. Brown, 
ever liberally communicative of his accurate and extensive 
information, tells us that our plant is not comprehended 
within the character by which that group has been defined. 
We have therefore left it to the genus in which it stands in 
the work we have cited, where it was first published. When 
Guiycine undergoes a revisal, our species will probably be 
generically separated from it. 4 
