56 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Trifolium. 
long, 1 line or less broad, glabrous, entire, narrowed to both ends. 
Peduneles an inch long. Flowers 1—3 together on very short pedicels. 
Calyx 2 in. long, glabrous, with 15 prominent striations, cut three- 
quarters of the way down, teeth linear-acuminate. Corolla rose-purple, 
equalling the calyx. Pod oblong, acuminate, slightly exceeding the calyx, 
8-10-seeded. — Trigonella Schimperi, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. 
Abyss. 86. Loxospermum Schimperi, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 1988. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon! Plowden! 
Recedes from the rest of the genus by its entire leaflets. 
8. T. calocephalum, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii. 50. Stems annual, 
densely cwspitose, glabrous, diffuse, 6-12 in. long. Stipules } in. 
long, broad, scariose, loosely sheathing, the free points lanceolate. 
Petioles 1-14 in. long, slender, glabrous. Leaflets sessile, obovate- 
cuneate, 3-3 in. long by half as broad, glabrous, finely toothed, the 
apex deeply emarginate. Peduncles 2-6 in. long’, glabrous. Flowers m 
heads of 8-6 each. Pedicels short. Calyx $ in. deep, glabrous, faintly 
10-nerved, teeth lanceolate cuspidate, reaching halfway down. Corolla 
? in. long, purple, showy. Ovary multiovulate. Pod not known.—A. 
Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1.175. Loaospermum calocephalum, Hochst. in Flora, ° 
1846, 595. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! 
9. T. multinerve, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 175. Stem annual, 6-12 
in. long, glabrous, dichotomously and diffusely branched. Stipules 
+-§ in. long, adnate about halfway, the free point subulate. Petioles 
1-14 in. Leaflets sessile, oblanceolate, 3-2 in. long, 4 in. broad, 
pointed, upper half sharply toothed. Flowers 2-6 together, peduncles 
4 in. long, pedicels very short. Calyx cylindrical, } in. long, with 
15-20 fine prominent nerves, teeth linear-subulate, reaching a third of 
the way down, finely ciliated. Corolla large, showy, purple. Pod 
equalling the calyx, oblong, pointed, 7—8-seeded.—Trigonella multinervis, 
Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. i. 175. Lowospermum multinerve, 
Hochst. in Flora 1846, 595. B. debilior, A. Rich; stem slender erect, 
4—6 high, scarcely branched. Flowers 1—3 together, flowers and leaves 
smaller. A. Rich. loc. cit. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit! 
This and the two preceding form a group very well marked both by habit and by 
their many-seeded pods, on account of which they were referred by Hochstetter t? 
Trigonella, 
bid de semipilosum, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii. 52. Rootstock 
woody. Stems densely cwespitose, slender, wide-creeping, finely silky. 
Stipules 3 in. long, the lower two-thirds adnate, the free points "lanceo- 
late. Petioles $—1 in., glabrous or finely silky. Leaflets rotundato- 
obovate, sessile, 3-4 lines long, three-quarters as broad, strongly veined, 
glabrous or finely silky, faintly toothed, apex rounded. Fiowers in 
long-stalked rounded heads of 6-12 each. Pedicels very short. 
Calyx 4 in. long, 10-nerved, thinly silky, the teeth lanceolate, reaching 
