t>APILIONACE.E. Ill 



Trifolium repcns Linn. ; F.B.I . ii 86, X 2 ; White 

 or Dutch Clover. Stem creeping and rooting at the nodes. 

 Internodes usually quite short ; stipules large up to % 

 inch, thin, free part not widened, scarious, often pur- 

 plish; petioles short % to l]^ inches, leaflets obcordate, 

 finely toothed on the rounded end, all sessile or nearly 

 so. Peduncles axillary, 2 to 6 inches, angled or grooved. 

 Heads 54 inch across, flowers distinctly pedicelled, 

 reflexed when over. Calyx teeth slender, not longer 

 than the tube. Standard petal distinctly striate when 

 faded. Pod oblong, 1/5 by 1/16 inch, longer than the 

 calyx but enclosed in the persistent corolla, indented 

 between the seeds. Seed white, heart-shaped. 



Nilgiris : Pykara flowering in May after the first rains. An 

 introduction from Europe. Fyson 221 1, 2931. 



Trifolium minus Smith; F.B.I, ii 86, X 3^ Stems 



very slender prostrate. Leaves nearly sessile : leaflets 



rounded and finely toothed at the apex, wedge-shaped 



at the base, about % inch long ; the middle one shortly 



stalked; stipules broad and pointed, l^ by 1/12 inch. 



Peduncles in the axils of the leaves, J^ inch, very 



slender ; heads % inch across. Flowers yellow, the 



standard marked after fading with longitudinal lines. 



Capsule with one seed. 



An introduced weed, native of Europe ; closely allied to the 

 Hop-trefoil, T. procumbens of England. Fyson 2033. 



PAROCHETUS. f.b.i. 50 xi. 



A genus of one species only. 



Parochctus communis Hamilton ; F.B.I, ii 86, XI I ; 

 the Blue Parochet ; a small creeping plant with Clover 

 or Sorrel-like leaves, and blue and white flowers solitary 

 or in pairs on slender stalks. 



Stem or rhizome very slender, running to 2 or 3 feet, 

 and rooting at the nodes. Leaf-stalks \i inch : leaflets 



