86 L. LEGUMINOSJ;. (J. G. Baker.) [Trifolium.. 



10. TRZFOZ.IUZK, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves with stipules adnate to the petiole and 

 digitately 3-foliolate leaflets. Flowers small, copious, in dense axillary heads. 

 Calyx tube turbinate ; teeth mostly 5 subequal. Corolla adnate to the stamina! 

 tube, and fading without falling ; standard and wings narrow ; keel straight, 

 obtuse. Stamens diadelphous : filaments more or less dilated ; anthers uniform. 

 Ovary sessile or stalked, few-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved above the base ; 

 stigma oblique. Pod minute, included, membranous, indehiscent, 1 or few- 

 seeded. DISTRIB. Species perhaps 200, mostly European and Oriental, many 

 N. American and Trop. African. 



T. MINUS, Smith, is included in Hohenacker's Neilgherry plants, no doubt from 

 introduced specimens. 



T. RESUPINATTTM, Linn., is largely cultivated in Afghanistan, Hazara and Khagan, 

 in the subtropical zone. 



1. T. pratense, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 195 ; erect, heads subtended by a 

 pair of opposite leaves, calyx not accrescent. JBoiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 115. 



KASHMIR to G-ARWHAL, 4-8000 ft. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Siberia, Orient, Europe. 



Perennial ; stems a foot or more high, slightly downy. Stipules very broad ; 

 leaflets oblong; toothing obscure. Heads roundish; flowers very dense, usually red. 

 Calyx pubescent ; teeth setaceous, the lowest longer than the rest, exceeding the tube. 

 Pod 1 -seeded, opening by a lid. One of the common forage clovers. 



2. T. repens, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 198 ; trailing, peduncles elongated 

 naked, calyx not accrescent. Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 145. T. venulosum, Royle 

 MSS. 



TEMPERATE and ALPINE HIMALAYA, ascending to 20,000 ft. ; NILGHIRIS and 

 CEYLON, perhaps introduced. DISTRIB, Through Europe and Asia, also North 

 America. 



Stems slender, glabrous, wide-creeping. Stipules narrow; petioles and peduncles 

 long, ascending ; leaflets obovate emarginate, distinctly toothed. Heads globose, not 

 dense; flowers finally deflexed. Calyx glabrous; teeth subequal, shorter than the 

 tube. Corolla white or with a pink tinge. Pod minute, linear, 3-4-seeded. Com- 

 monly cultivated. 



3. T. frag-iferum, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 202; trailing, peduncles elon- 

 gated naked, fruit calyx accrescent. Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 135. 



KASHMIR, temperate zone, Jacquemont, Thomson. DISTRIB. Europe, Orient, K. 

 Africa, Abyssinia. 



Habit of T. repens, for which it is easily passed over in flower. Stipules lanceo- 

 late, with cuspidate points ; petioles and peduncles elongated: ; leaflets less distinctly 

 toothed. Corolla a deeper pink. Calyx in fruit becoming an ovoid membranous 

 persistent bladder, enclosing the small 1-2-seeded pod. 



11. PAOCHETUS,Hainilt. 



A slender creeping herb. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flowers on axillary peduncles. 

 Calyx tube canipanulate ; two upper teeth subconnate. Corolla free from 

 stamina! tube ; standard broad, obovate clawed ; wings much shorter, obtuse ; 

 keel as long as the wings, incurved and subacute at the tip. Stamens diadel- 

 phous ; filaments not dilated ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, linear, oc-ovulate : 

 style elongated, glabrous, suddenly incurved above the base, stigma terminal. 

 Pod linear, turgid, continuous within. A single species. 



1. P. communis, Hamilt. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 403 ; Wall. Cat. 5972 ; Royle 

 Illust. t. 35 ; Don. Prodr. 241. P. major, Don Prodr. 241 ; DC. Prodr. loc. 



