Volume 9 — PLATE DCII. GLYCINE COMPTONIANA. Comptonian Glycine.

CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx bilabiatus. Corollæ carina apice vexillum reflectens.

Cup two-lipped. Keel of the blossom turning back the standard at the end.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Glycine volubilis, foliis ternatis elongato-ovatis utrinque glabris, petiolis partialibus supra pubescentibus, racemis axillaribus multi-floris.

Glycine twining; the leaves by threes of a long egg-shape, smooth on both sides; the partial footstalks hairy above; the bunches lateral and many-flowered.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This elegant species is a native of New Holland, and belongs to that division of the genus with many-seeded pods without any partitions. We find in the germen the rudiments of eight kidneyshaped seeds, but the ripe fruit we have not seen. Having found no antecedent description or figure of the plant, we have named it in honour of Lady Northampton, in whose collection at Castle Ashby it flowered last April. But by whom it was introduced we are uncertain.