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86 li. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) \_TrifoUum. 



10. TRXrOZiIVM, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves vdth stipules adnate to the petiole and 

 digitately P>-fonolate leaflets. Flowers small^ copious^ in dense axillary heads. 

 Calj/x tube turbinate ; teeth mostly 5 subequal. Corolla adnate to the staminal 

 tube, and fading without falling ; standard and wings narrow ; keel straight, 

 obtuse. Stmnens diadelphous ; filaments more or less dilated ; anthers uniform. 

 Ovary sessile or stalked, few-OYuled ; style filiform, incurved above the base ; 

 stigma oblique. Pod minute, included, membranous, indehisceut, 1 or few- 

 seeded. — DiSTKiB. Species perhaps 200, mostly European and Oriental, many 

 N. American and Trop, African. 



T. Murns, Sraith, is included in Hohenacker's Keilgherry" plants, no doubt from 

 t introduced specimens. 



T. RESLTixATTTM, Linn,, IS largely Cultivated in Afghanistan, Hazara and Khagan, 

 in the subtropical zone. 



1. T. pratense, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 195 ; erect, heads subtended by a 

 pair of opposite leaves, calyx not accrescent. Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 115. 



Kashmik to Garwhai., 4-SOOO ft. — Distbib. Afghanistan, Siberia, Orient, Europe. 



Peromial; stems a foot or more high, slightly downy. Stipides very broad; 

 leaflets oblong ; toothing obscure. Heads roundish; flowers very dense, usually red. 

 Calyx pubescent ; teeth setaceous, the lo"west longer than the rest, exceeding the tube. 

 Pod 1 -seeded, opening by a lid. — One of the common forage clovers. 



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" 2. T. repeils, Z/nn.; DC. Prodr. ii. 198; trailing, peduncles elongated 

 naked, calyx not accrescent. Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 145. T. venulosum, PoyU 

 MSS. 



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Tempruate and Alpine Himai.aya, ascending to 20,000 ft. ; NiLGHiiiis and 

 Ceylox, perhaps introduced. — Disxnin. Through Europe and Asia, also North 



America. 



Rtenis slender, glabrous, wide-creeping. Stipules narrow ; petioles and peduncles 

 long, ascending; leaflets obovate emarginate, distinctly toothed. ^^(7c?5 globose, not 

 dense; flowers finally deflexed. Calyx glabrous ; teeth subequal, shorter than t ho 

 tube. Corolla white or with 3»pink tinge. Pod minute, linear, 3-4-seeded. — Com- 

 monly cultivated. 



3, T- fragiferum, Linn.; DC. Prodr. \\. 202; trailing, peduncles elon- 

 gated naked, fruit calyx accrescent. Boiss. FL Orient ii. 135. 



Kashmir 



Africa, Abyssinia. 



DiSTHiB, Europe, Orient, N. 



BabU of 21 repcJis, for which it is easily passed over in flower. Stipules lanceo- 

 late, with cuspidate points; petioles and peduncles elongated; leaflets less distinctly 

 toothed. Corolla a deeper pink. Calyx in fruit becoming an ovoid membranous- 

 persistent bladder, enclosing the small 1-2-seeded pod. 



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11, PAaOCKETUS,IIamilt. 



A slender creeping herb. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers on axillary peduncles. 

 Calyx ttibe campanulate: two upper teeth subconnate. Corolla free from 

 staminal tube ; standard broad, obovate clawed ; win^s much shorter, obtuse ; 

 keel as long as the wings, incurved and subacute at me tip. Stameris diadel- 

 phous ; filaments not dilated ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, linear, oc-ovulate ;• 

 style elongated, glabrous, suddenly incuned above the base, stioiua terminal. 

 Pod linear, txirgid, continuous within,; . A single secies. ' 





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1. p. communis, Hamilt. ■^ DC. Firodr. ii. 403; Wall. Cat. 5972 ; Jtai/le 

 Illud. t. 35 ; Bon. Prodr. 241. V. major, Don I>rodr. 241 : DC. Prodr. loc. 







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