Roruta. LEGUMINOSZ. 195 
5-7, cuneate-oblong, obtuse or retuse, upper side glabrous: racemes termi- 
nal: bracteas lanceolate, acuminated, reflexed: flowers large, approximated, 
-on longish pedicels: bracteoles setaceous near the base of the pedicels: le- 
gumes large, glabrous, oblong, attenuated at the base into a short. stalk: 
seeds numerous.— Wight! cat. n. 706.—C. digitata, Wight! (not Hook.) in 
Wall.! L.n. 5430. Dindygul hills, at an elevation of 4000 feet. 
B. Stems herbaceous, rarely shrubby: leaves usually palmately 3~5-foliolate, very 
rarely unequally pinnated ; primordial ones alternate : stamens. diadelphous : 
legume 1-celled.—'Trifolieze, Brown. 
V. ROTHIA. Pers. 
Calyx 5-cleft to the middle: segments broad ; the two upper ones faleate, 
distinet but close together, and forming as if one vaulted segment pressing 
upon the vexillum. Corolla inserted into the bottom of the calyx, papiliona- 
cequs: vexillum oblong-obovate, straight or slightly reeurved towards the 
apex: ale about the length of the keel, and slightly shorter than the vexil- 
lum, oblong: keel-petals distinct or scarcely cohering, a little obtuse, and 
not acuminated. Stamens monadelphous, the sheath split on the upper side. 
Style glabrous, filiform, straight. Stigma capitate. Legume linear, acumi- 
nated at both ends, sessile, compressed, many-seeded. Seeds compressed, 
reniform : cotyledons thin: radicle at the end of the seed, curved up along 
the edge of its lobes to their middle—Annual, prostrate, thickly sprinkled on 
the stems, petioles, pedicels, and legumes, with longish soft silky hairs. 
Leaves petioled, palmately trifoliolate ; leaflets all nearly sessile, cuneate-ob- 
long, rather fleshy: upper surface almost glabrous ; under with adpressed hairs. 
Stipules foliaceous, oblong, partial ones wanting. Pedicels solitary or in pairs, 
opposite to the leaves, with setaceous bracteoles above the middle. 
609. (1) R. trifoliata (Pers.)— Pers. . 2. 638; DC. prod. 2. p. 382; 
Wai. ! we a. Y “ta 828. — Dillwynia trifoliata, Roth, cat. bot. 
3. p. 715 Pers. syn. 2. p. 302.—Harpelema, Jacq. ecl. 2. t. 129.—Westonia 
humifusa, Spr. Pore 8. d 230. Glycine humifusa, Willd. enum. p. 156 ; Roth, 
nov. sp. p. 349.—G. leptocarpa, Graham! in Wall.! L. n. 5515.— Trigonella 
Indica, Linn.! sp. p. 1095 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 282; Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 389 ; in 
E. I. C. mus. tab, 412.—Lotus Indieus, Desr. in Lam. enc. meth. 3. p. 606 ; 
DC. l. c. p. 210.—Hosackia Indica, Graham! in Wall.! L. n. 5940.—Pluk. 
t. 200. f. 7, and t. 231. f. 5. 
VI. TRIGONELLA. Linn.; Gaertn. fr. 2. t. 152. f. 3; Lam. ill, t. 611. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft. Vexillum and ale nearly equal, spreading in 
the form of a 3-petalled corolla: keel very small, patent. Stamens diadel- 
phous (9 and 1). Legume continuous, oblong, compressed or cylindrical, 
aeuminated, many-seeded.—Herbaceous plants, with a heavy penetrating 
odour. Leaves trifoliolate, the terminal leaflet stalked. d c. 
* 610. (1) T. Fenum-gracum (Linn.:) annual: stem erect, simple: leaflets 
obovate, obsoletely toothed : stipules lanceolate-faleate, entire: flowers ses- 
sile, solitary or in pairs: calyx hairy; the teeth subulate, the length of the 
tube: legumes elongated, compressed, longitudinally reticulated, falcate, 
with a long beak about half the length of the legume : peda large, ovate, 
and wrinkled ; the radicle prominent.—Linn. sp. p. 1095 ; Ser. Bone DC. prod. 
2. p. 182; Spr. syst. 3. p. 284; Gaertn. fr. t. 152. f. 3; Wall.! L. n. 5984 ; 
Wight! cat. n. 722. fier ; 
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