The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Teramnus

(from teramnos, soft; in reference to the pods and leaves). SYN. Glycine (of Wight and Arnott). ORD. Leguminosae. A small, tropical genus of slender, twining, stove herbs. Flowers small, fascicled or racemose; standard ovate, narrowed at base, exappen-diculate. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate, stipellate. Two species have been introduced, but they are not very ornamental, and are probably no longer in cultivation.

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