Plants of the Punjab. 553 
Prostrate Heres with ALTERNATE STipuLATE Compounp L#&avss. 
Trifolium pratense, 
Purple clover, 
Treparta, chitbatta. 
LEGUMINOS&. 
Po BSE 2-86: 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Trifolium repens, 
Dutch clover, 
Shamrock, 
Shaftal, shotul. 
LEGUMINOS&. 
F. B. I. ii. 86. 
Himalaya, 
20,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Trifolium fragiferum, 
Strawberry clover, 
LEGUMINOSA, 
BBs ei 86; 
Kashmir, 
Baluchistan (Duke). 
Trifolium minus, 
Lesser clover, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
F.+B.l in 862 
‘Simla (Collett). 
Parochetus 
communis, 
LEGUMINOS&. 
¥. Bo Ala. 86. 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
4-13,000 ft. 
Matiana in grass 
(Collett). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small perennial, hairy, stems reclining ; leaves of 3 
leaflets, leaflets ovate or oblong, entire or toothed, tip 
blunt or notched, end leaflet sessile, stipules united to the 
leaf stalk, large, ovate, veined, long-pointed, much shorter 
than the leaf stalks ; flowers small, purple, many in long- 
stalked ovoid or round heads, 3-1} in. diam., with 1 or 2 
leaves at the base, calyx bell-shaped, teeth 5, nearly equal, 
or 3 lower longest, narrow, longer than the tube, petals 
‘arrow, persistent, keel blunt, stamens 10, upper free, rest 
united, style lightly curved, smooth ; pod very small in the 
withered corolla, seed one. This plant supplies good fodder. 
like the last species, but stipules narrow, oblong, flowers 
white or tinged with pink, pod 3-4-seeded. 
very like the last species, but flowers pinker, calyx 
enlarged in fruit forming a red bladder round the small, 
1-2-seeded pod. 
annual, nearly smooth, stem trailing, stipules broadly 
lanceolate, nearly as long as the leaf stalk, heads } in. 
diam., ovoid, flowers yellow, pod obovoid, 1-seeded, calyx 
not enlarged in fruit; for other characters see the last 
species, 
perennial, hairy, stems long, fine, rooting at the joints ; 
leaves of 3 leaflets, leaflets heart-shaped with the pointed 
end inwards, entire or minutely toothed, stipules lance- 
olate, nearly free; flowers 4-2? in. long, deep violet blue, 
solitary or in pars at the end of a stalk longer than the 
leaves, calyx tube 5-toothed, bell-shaped, petals free, 
standard erect, stalked, keel shorter than the wing petals, 
stamens 10, upper stamen free, others united, style smooth, 
turned in; pod 3-1 in., straight, tipped with the style, 
seeds many. 
