Melilotus.} XLVII. § PAPILIONACEEH (BAKER). 58 
acuminate equalling the tube. Corolla pale yellow, three times as long 
as the calyx, all the petals equal. Pod a line long, globose, glabrous, 
distinctly reticulato-rugose, 1-seeded. — MJ. neapolituna, Ten. Prod. 
Suppl. i. 56. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia (teste Schweinfurth). 
A common Mediterranean species.. 
3. M. abyssinica, Baker. Stems 1-2 ft. high, erect, glabrous, 
copiously branched. Petioles 2-1 in. long; leaflets obovate-cuneate, 
toothed, 9-15 lines long. Flowers in copious stalked lax axillary 
racemes 1-2 in. long. Pedicels cernuous, equalling the calyx, which 
is scarcely a line long, teeth lanceolate, reaching haltway down. 
Corolla pale yellow, quite twice as long as the calyx, the wings and 
keel rather shorter than the standard. Pod sessile, glabrous, roundish 
with amucro, 2 lines each way, the keel thick and prominent with a 
channel on each side, faces marked with parallel raised transverse bars, 
which are a little connected by intermediate ones, the seeds two.—JW. 
ttalica, A. Rich, Fl. Abyss. i. 166, non Lam.; DC. ii. 188. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Parkyns! 
_ Pod with a keel like that of JZ. ttalica, but the bars regularly arcuate, the seeds two 
instead of one, and flowers much smaller. 
12. TRIFOLIUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 487. 
Calyx-teeth subequal, two upper sometimes more or less connate. 
Petals adnate below to the staminal tube ; standard ovate or oblong ; 
wings narrow; keel shorter obtuse. Stamens diadelphous ; alternate 
filaments or all of them more or less dilated; anthers uniform, Ovary 
sessile or stalked, 1- or -pauci-ovulate, rarely multiovulate ; style 
hliform ; stigma capitate or oblique. Pod oblong, rarely linear-oblong ; 
seeds 1-2, rarely more.—Herbs with the leaflets three in all our 
species, toothed in all but one, sessile or faintly stalked. 
A large genus extending all round the North Temperate zone, stretching southward 
to the South Temperate zone along the mountains ; with us almost exclusively Nilotic. 
§ Lagopus.—Calyx with an elevated hairy ring at the throat . 1. 7. arvense. 
Calyx without a ring of hairs at the throat. 
Bracts forming a distinct conspicuous whorl round the heads of 
flowers, 
§§ Vesicastrum. —Fruit-calyx accrescent, arching, mem-~- 
branous. : 
Perennial, with procumbent stems . . . +--+ +. + + z ¥ pees 
Annual, with erect stems: 2.6 60 8 bs oe Se he nerr. 
§§$ Eutriphyllum.—Fruit-calyx not accrescent. 
Flowers 6-12 in dense heads on long erect stems, 
Calyx distinctly stalked . . - + + + +e «> . 7, Sia 
Calyx subsessile SP be Meclld kind se ect p eran 
Flowers 2-3; stems very short . + - © + © © © + & de 
Bracts indistinct or obsolete. 
