rote in. 
Trifolium. ] XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 55 
an inch long, glabrous. Peduncles exceeding leaves. Flowers about 
20 in adense head; bracts equalling the calyx. Calyx sessile, 2} lines 
long, becoming dilated and inflated as in 7. Sragiferum, the deltoid acu- 
minate teeth half as long as the tube. Corolla violet, twice as long as 
the calyx. Pod ovoid, 2-seeded. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Ataba, Steudner. 
4. T. umbellulatum, 4. Rich. F7. Abyss.i. 172. Stem a foot high, 
erect, glabrous, branched from the base. Stipules membranous, lower 
part sheathing the stem, the free points ovate-acuminate. Leaflets 
elliptical, obtuse, rarely subovate, sharply toothed. Flowers in heads 
of 3-10, surrounded by a whorl of short blunt bracts. Calyx short- 
stalked, tube 10-nerved, teeth lanceolate, rather longer than the tube. 
Corolla bluish, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod compressed, 
elliptic-oblong, twice as long as tube, apiculate, 5-seeded. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon and Petit. 
This we have not seen. The author compares it with and considers it near 7. sub- 
rotundum. 
5. T. Quartinianum, 4. Rich. FI. Abyss. i. 169. Stem a foot high, 
suberect, elabrous. Stipules 1 in. long, adnate to the petiole for the 
lower three-quarters, the point lanceolate. Petioles 1—2 in. long, gla- 
brous. Leaflets subsessile, narrow-oblong, glabrous, 14—2 in. long, 
4-4 in, broad, finely toothed, blunt. Flowers ins a few long-stalked 
dense rounded heads, surrounded by a whorl of imbricated ovate 
Scariose strongly veined bracts } in. broad. Calyx subsessile, 4 lines 
eep, finely striated, teeth lanceolate acuminate, reaching halfway 
down. Corolla purple, half as long again as the calyx. Pod oblong, 
pointed, about equalling the calyx, 1-2-seeded. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! : 
In general habit and the heads of flowers resembling 7. pratense and medium. 
6. T. acaule, Steud. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 587. Root thick, 
Woody, a foot long. Stems very short, densely cwspitose. Stipules 
glabrous, adnate at the base onl y, the free points setaceous. Petioles 
at most only equalling the ne oblanceolate leaflets, which are 98) 
brous, een! strongly veined, finely toothed, } in. long by half a line 
broad, Flowers in short-stalked clusters of 2—3 together, sometimes 
Solitary, clusters surrounded by lanceolate-subulate bracts, which are 
Considerably shorter than the pedicels, which are } in. long. Calyx } in. 
long, glabrous, with a few prominent nerves, the teeth lanceolate, 
reaching one-third of the way down. Corolla nearly twice the calyx. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
A very well-marked species. 
7. "TP. Schimperi, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 173. Stems 6-12 in. long, 
annual erect or spreading, copiously branched. Stipules scariose, an 
'nch long, the lower third sheathing the stem loosely, the point i. 
Setaceous. Petioles 1-1} in. long. Leaflets sessile, linear, 1-1} in. 
