A slender perennial twiner, glabrous with long
internodes, stems slender, cylindrical, branched with smooth wrinkled brown
bark; leaves alternate with stipules. "the leaves are by far the sweetest part of the plant, and from them a tolerable extract may be made, but in most parts of India, where true liquorice is obtainable in any quantity as an article of commerce, it would be much more expensive to collect them than to use liquorice. The roots of Taverniera nummularia, and Alysicarpus longifolius, are sweet like liquorice, and are called liquorice in India.
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