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259 Plants of the Punjab. : 
Heres, Erect, wire ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS TWO-THREE. 
Lotononis small, annual, finely silky, branches many, spread- 
Leobordea, ing; leaves digitately compound, leaflets 3, 4-3 in. long, 
LEGUMINOS®. lanceolate, rather fleshy, tip blunt, broad, with a minutely 
Pop al-eil: 64: 
Peshawar (Stewart). 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Crotalaria 
medicaginea, 
Ononis hircina, 
Trifolium pratense, 
Trigonella 
Fonum-grecum, 
Fenugreek, 
Methi. 
LEGUMINOS”. 
Boa, Lik. OF. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Hazara. 
Ba'uchistan (Lace). 
Trigonella 
polycerata, 
fine point, leaf stalks as long as the leaves, stipules minute, 
lanceolate, soon falling off; flowers } in., pale yellow or 
red, nearly sessile, 1-5, in the axils of .most of the leaves, 
calyx ?-1 in., silky, teeth 5, lowest tooth deepest, petals 5, 
a little longer than the calyx, standard narrow, wings 
shorter, narrower, keel petals firmly united, longer, tip 
sharply incurved, stamens 10, united in a tube, slit along 
the top, anthers as in the last species ; pod linear-oblong, 
scarcely longer than the calyx, seeds 4-8. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 
pound. 
see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
medium s'ze, annual, cultivated, strongly scented, 
robust, nearly smooth ; leaves pinnately compound, leaflets 
8-1 in. long, lanceolate-oblong, tip broad, toothed, lateral 
nearly sessile, terminal stalked, nerves prominent, running 
into the teeth, stipules lanceolate, entire, long-pointed, 
united to the leaf stalk ; flowe:s small, pale yellow, in short 
racemes at the end of axillary stalk, often bristle-tipped, 
calyx }-} in., bell-shaped, teeth 5, distinct, linear, petals 
5, narrow, standard and wings nearly equal, keel shorter, 
blunt, a little longer than the calyx, stamens 10, upper 
nearly or quite free, others united ; pod 2-3 in. long, often 
curved, lone-beaked, seeds 10-20. This plant is cultivated 
as a fodder crop and a pot herb, the seeds are used as a 
spice and as a carminative. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 
pound. 
