160 LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) | Trifolium. 
j Posenc\ (4 «a4 + Roots very fibrous, perennial or annual. Stems numerous from the same crown, 
Geetthbees Se spreading in a circle, 3-6 inches long, flexuous, glabrous. Leaves on long petioles, 
| ; of the leaflets short and broad, glabrous. Flowers minute, not conspicuous till the 
0 46% corolla withers, after which time the calyx enlarges greatly, becomes bladdery and 
veiny, and then the heads resemble small cotton balls. This plant is a native of the 
‘ South of Europe ; probably merely naturalized, but completely so in S. Africa. 
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4, T. angustifolium (Linn. sp. 1083); annual, erect, subsimple, vir- 
gate; leaflets linear-lunceolate, acute, ciliate ; stipules setaceo-subulate ; 
spikes solitary, terminal, oblong, becoming cylindrical ; segments of the 
very hairy, glandular, ribbed calyx setaceo-subulate, pungent, about 
equalling the corolla, the lowest longest. DC. Prod. 2. p. 189. #. Mey. 
8 Comm. Drege. p. 90. E. & Z, No. 1 511. 
a Has. Naturalized (from the S. of Europe) in various laces near Capetown, 
: % a Simonsbay, the Paarl &e. E. § Z.! Pappe rf (Herb. Dd. &e ) e - 
*b 8 Stems 6 inches to 2 feet high, only luxuriant ones branching. Leaves widely 
separate: leaflets 2-3 inches long, 1-2 lines wide, variably silky, Stipules very 
| long and slender. Spikes at first conical-oblong, afterwards elongating, 2-3 inches 
i long, very hairy, fulvous ; the flowers small and red. 
5. T. stipulaceum (Thunb, ! Fl. Cap. p. 609) ; annual or biennial, 
suberect, villous ; leaflets obovate-oblong, retuse or emarginate, denti- 
culate, striate; stipules membranaceous, striate, subulate-acuminate ; 
| heads oblong, subsessile, or shortly pedunculate ; Segments of the densely 
; villous, 10-ribbed, campanulate calyx setaceo-subulate, erect, longer 
i than the tube and the corolla; legume membranous, one seeded 3 seed 
reddish-brown. JZ. ¢ Z./ No.1 512. T. micropetalum, EL. Mey ! Comm. 
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3 Pp. go. 
; Has. Grassy fields, Puspasvalley, and near the Zwartkops River, EZ. § Z, Near 
> Saldanha Bay ; also at Algoa Bay, in sandy places near the sea, Drege! (Herb. 
‘ Th., Hk., D.) 
cts A small, apparently annual species, 3-6 inches high, simple or branched from the 
wes base, clothed with long, soft, fulvous hairs. Petioles long or short ; stipules remark- 
ably taper pointed, 4-6 lines long. Leaflets 4-8 lines long, 14-3 lines wide, closely 
z parallel veined. Heads very hairy, the calyx slightly enlarged after flowering, and 
| its segments becoming rigid and awnlike. 
6. T. agrarium (Linn. sp. 1087) ; annual, nearly glabrous, ascend- a 
ing, rigid; leaves shortly petiolate; leaflets obovate or obcordate, den- ie 
ticulate, striate ; stipules ovato-lanceolate, acute ; peduncles axillary, 
long or short; heads densely many flowered, ovoid, yellow ; flowers de- 
flexed, the vexillum very broad, spreading, obcordate, striate ; calyx 
minute, its limb very unequal, the upper segments shorter than the 
lower, glabrous; legume one seeded. DC. Prod. 2. p. 205. Benth. 
Handb. p. 169. T. procumbens, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 610, EB. Bot. t o4®. 
B.&2-1 Non 60g7 = — err 
7, T, procumbens (Linn. sp. 1088) ; annual, nearly glabrous, diffuse, 
slender ; leaves shortly petiolate ; leaflets obovate or obcordate, denti- 
