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2. M. indica, All. (1785). 

 Erort glabrous annual, but not 

 usually as tall as the preceding; ; 

 leaflets oblanceolate to oval- 

 oblong, usually notched and 

 mucronate at summit denticu- 

 late; flowers small, yellow, frag- 

 rant, in dense blunt racemes 

 longer than the leaf: pedicels 

 longer than the tube of the 5- 

 nerved calyx ; standard a little 

 longer than the wings and keel, 

 which are ecjual : pod .small, 

 drooping, subglobular, net- 



wrinkled, brownish, with 1 

 smooth seed. ' J/. ixirrifloid , 

 Desf. (1800). 



Cultivated land or sandy soil 

 near sea. — Called ('(ilijnniinn 

 Lucrrnr. in the South-East and 

 Ilcxhaia Scent in New South 

 Wales. — Aug. -Nov. — Mediter- 

 ranean region ; India. 



Melilotus indica. 



0. Medic.xgo, L. 



(Name formed from the Latin nn'dica, Greek mcdike, 



^ledian ; lucerne is said to have been introduced from 



Media into Greece.) 



Pod without spines or tubercles. 



Pod kidney-shaped, 1-seeded 



Pod spirally-twisted, with several seeds. 

 Perciniial ; flowers numerous, violet ... 



-Annual; flowers few, yellow 



Pod with spines or tubercles. 

 Pod with rather loose coils. 

 Pod subglobular. 

 Pod downy, with hooked spines, leaflets 



all green 



Pod glabrous, spines not hooked, 



leaflets spotted 



Pod cylindrical or diskshaped, flat or 

 convex at the two ends. 



Peduncles usually 1 flowered 



Peduncles 2-5 flowered. 



P(jd with tuberculate coils 



Pod with spiny coils ... 



Pod with compact coils and appressed spines 



M. lupidina 1 



M. 



M. 



sativa 2 

 scutellafa 3 



minima ^ 

 inaculafn 5 



M. pracox 6 



M. 

 M. 

 M. 



rfticidatn 7 

 dcnticulata 8 

 truncatida 9 



1. Medicago lupuiina, L. Black Mcdir. Downy 

 annual, with long, prueumbeut stems; leaflets oboval to 

 almost circular, clenticulate ; stipules broad-lanceolate, entire 

 or toothed J fl(jwers very small, yellow, numerous, in com- 



