Glycine
(from glykys, sweet; the leaves and roots of one or two of the species are sweet). ORD. Leguminosoe. A genus of about twelve species of stove or greenhouse, twining or prostrate, slender or rarely sub-erect herbs, distributed over Asia, Africa, and Australia. G. hedysaroides (probably the only species introduced) thrives in a compost of peaty loam and a little sand. Propagated, in spring, by cuttings of young side shoots, inserted in sand, under a bell glass; or by seeds, sown in a hotbed.
G. Apios (Apios). A synonym of Apios tuberosa.
G. biloba (two-lobed). A synonym of Cologania biloba. G. hedysaroides (Hedysarum-like). fl. purple, axillary, usually five together. June. l., leaflets ovate, obtuse, mucronate, pilose beneath. Branches twining a little. Stem erect, tomentose. Guinea, 1823. Stove.