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3. Medicago denticulata, WUhL Sjy. PI. v. ;j (IbOu) p. 1414. 

 Auuual. Leaves 3-foli()hite ; petioles ^-Ij iu. long ; stipules laciniate. 

 Leaflets t-| by §-| in,, obovate-cuueate, slightly toothed, somewhat 

 deeply emarginate, mucrouate. Peduncles \-^ in. long, closely 2-6- 

 flowered, awned ; pedicels short. Calyx ^^ in. long, glabrous or nearly 

 so outside ; teeth lanceolate, slightly shorter than the tube. Corolla 

 twice as long as the calyx. Pods of 2-4 spirals, with spiny margins, 

 the outer face reticulato-venose, i-i in. across, not spiny. Seeds about 

 4-8. ri. B. I. V. 2, p. 90 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 2, p. 102 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 421 ; A\^att, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, 

 p. 199. 



SixD : Bhubak, Coo/iel; Seliwaii, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (tropical zone of the 

 North-west) ; Orient, Abyssinia, Europe, Japan, Ciiina, Siberia. 



Medicago sativa, Linn., Lucenie, is commonly grown throughout the 

 Bombay Presidency, and indeed throughout the greater part of India, as 

 fodder. The flowers are usually purple and the pod forms a double 

 spiral. — Veen. Vilayti-riMs ; Lasan-ghds. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 5, p. 199. 



9. LOTUS, Linn. 



Herbs. Leaves usually o- (sometimes 3-) foliolate, the lowest pair of 

 leaflets arising from the base of the petioles like stipules ; stipuh\s 

 minute, tuberculiform or 0. Elowers axillary, umbellate or rarely 

 solitary ; bracts 3-foliolate, usually stalked. Calyx-lobes subequal or 

 the lowest longest, very rarely more or less connate into 2 lips. Corolla 

 free from the staminal-tube ; standard obovate, suborbicular or ovate- 

 aciiminate, contracted at the base into a claw ; wings obovate ; keel 

 incurved, beaked. Stamens diadelphous ; alternate filaments dil.ited at 

 the apex ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, many-ovulate : style inflexed 

 above the ovary ; stigma terminal or lateral. Pod linear, turi'id, de- 

 hiscent, septate (very rarely contituious) between the seeds. — Disteib. 

 Europp, temperate Asia, N. & S. Africa, IN". «S: S.W. America and 

 Australia ; species about 50. 



Flowers peduneled ; corolla twice as long as the calyx 1. L. cornicidatus. 



Flowei's sessile ; corolla scarcely exceeding the caljs 2. L. Garcini. 



1. Lotus corniculatus, var. minor, BaJrer, in Hool-. f. Fl. B, I. 

 V. 2 (1876) p. 91. A perennial herb; rootstock short, ctespitosely 

 branched ; stems decumbent, 2-6 in. long, glabrous or slightly pubescent. 

 Leaves 5-foliolate, somewhat fleshy, \-'^ by y^-g i"-> sessi'e, obovate or 

 oblong, subacute, the lower pair of leaflets stipule-like and dist'uit from 

 the other three. Flowers solitary, on a long slend-^r peduncle, ea^h flower 

 subtended by a 3-foliolate leaf or bract. Calvx \ in. long, glabrous or 

 faintlv pubescent ; teeth equal, linear-subulate from a triangular base, 

 equalling the tube. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Pods |— 1 in. 

 long, cylindric, straight. Seeds 20-30. Aiteh. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 39 ; 

 "Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat;, v. 11 (1897) p. 421. — Flowers: Jan.- 

 Mar. 



8ind: Stocks, m)\, BMa\, Woodrow. 



The varietv witli solitary (lowers seems to be coiifiuod to Siiul. 



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