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rhizome, similar to and rather longer than the petioles. Calyx 3} lines 
deep, glabrous, the teeth lanceolate, not reaching halfway down. 
Corolla pale purplish, three times as long as the calyx. Pod linear, 
g-l in. long, under } in. broad, acute, many-seeded. P. major, Don, 
lic. Bennett, Pl. Jav. Rar. t. 34. Wight, Ic. t. 483. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Manganya Hills, Dr. Meller! 
Habit of Oxalis Acctosella. A native of the East Indies and Malay islands. 
9. TRIGONELLA. Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 486. 
Calyx tubular with five subequal teeth. Petals free from the stami- 
nal tube, caducous; standard obovate; wings oblong; keel obtuse, 
very short. Stamens diadelphous; filaments not dilated; anthers uni- 
form. Pod linear or oblong, compressed, rostrate, often falcate, few or 
many-seeded.—Herbs, usually annual, with pinnately trifoliolate leaves. 
ven genus, with its head-quarters in the temperate regions of the Old 
'Vorid, 
Pod linear, decidedly falcate. 
Flowers pessile; 1-2 torether’ 3. 6s A 
Flowers in dense short-stalked raceme 2. 
Pod oblong or linear, straight. 
Pod oblong, scarcely exceeding the calyx, usually 2-seeded. 
Flowers-sessile, 2-4 together. . “s&s «40's Be Ze opmulta. 
Flowers 6-12 in dense short-stalked racemes . . . . 4. J’. marginata. 
Pod linear-oblong, 5-6 seeded . : . 5. T. laciniata. 
1. T. Foenum-grecum, /. ; D0. Prod.ii. 182. An erect subglabrous 
annual 1~2 ft. high. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, 8-9 lines long. Flowers 
Solitary or in pairs in the axils of the leaves. Calyx 3-4 lines long, 
teeth linear. Corolla bright yellow, under twice the calyx. Pod gla- 
brous, linear-falcate, long-beaked, 2-4 in. long, 10-20-seeded.—A. 
Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 165. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, probably only cultivated, Schimper! &c.; Nubia, Kotschy! 
Once much cultivated as a forage plant, but now going out of use. 
T. Foenum-grecum. 
T. hamosa. 
2. T. hamosa, Zinn. ; DC. Prod. ii, 183. Stems annual, herbaceous, 
1 ft. or more long, diffusely branched, glabrous. Petioles $—} in. long. 
Leaflets obovate-cuneate, 1 in. long, truncate or emarginate, the upper 
half inciso-crenate, terminal one on a stalk 1-2 lines long. Flowers 
in copious short axillary racemes of 6-12 flowers each. Peduncles } 
in., ending in a weak spine at the apex. Pedicels under a line long. 
Calyx 4 line long, teeth very short. Corolla pale yellow, three or four 
times as long as the calyx. Pod linear-faleate, {-} in. long, pro- 
minently reticulato-rugose, about 4-seeded.—Sibth. Fl. Gree. t. 764. 
Harv. Fl. Cap. ii. 162. 7. glabra, Thunb. Fl. Cap. 610. 
Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Kotschy! Dr. Bromfeld! 
Habit of Melilotus. Also a plant of Egypt, the Cape, and India. 
3. 'T. occulta, Delile; DC. Prod. ii, 185. A very diffuse finely silky 
annual with stems under half a foot long. Stipules deeply — 
VOL. II, 
Mo. Bot. Garden, 
1896. 
