no PAPILIONACE^. 



form large leafy panicles I to 2 feet high by 6 to 8 inches 

 wide : bracts boat-shaped ^ inch, persistent till the 

 standard has fallen ; bracteoles similar. Calyx ob- 

 scurely two-lipped ; three lower teeth lanceolate, ^ by 

 Ye inch at the base, two upper broader, ovate ; all pubes- 

 cent or silky with short white hairs. Corolla when 

 closed not much exserted, but when open large and 

 conspicuous ; standard l% by I inch, apiculate, thinly 

 silky on the back : wings obliquely obovate-oblong, % 

 by Ys inch ; all three petals alike in colour a light yellow 

 without any red in it : keel Yi inch at the broadest part, 

 its tip Y% inch light green. Pod i54 by lYi inches deep 

 by M inch broad, somewhat flattened above and below ; 

 when young thinly canescent, when ripe frilled by the 

 brown but not much shrunken sepals, t. 82- (Fyson 

 3016.) 



Pulneys : on the open downs, flowering July to September, 

 and then a magnificent sight, especially on the hill side to the 

 left of the Poombari road two miles beyond the Observatory, and 

 below the new ghat road a little above Shembaganur. Fyson 

 2157, 3°^6' Bourne 866, 507, 2883. Nilgiris : Coonoor 

 Clarke, Wight, Go ugh. Nowhere else. 



TRIFOLIUM. F.B.I. 50 X. 



Clover. 



A genus of the temperate regions occurring here only 

 as introduced weeds. Small herbs. Leaf-stalks with 

 stipules adhering to them and at the base encircling the 

 stem ; leaflets three, finely toothed. Flowers in close 

 heads (short spikes), red, yellow, or white, not blue. 

 Petals persistent, enclosing the small pod, keel obtuse. 



Species about 200, mostly in Europe and Asia. 



Trifolmm was the Latin name for the co?nmon clover. 

 Petioles under an inch ; flower-heads Y\ i'^ch yellow. T. minus- 

 Petioles more than an inch ; flower-heads white, Y\ inch. . 

 White Clover T. repens. 



