302 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Crotalaria, 



leaved shrub with yellow flowers and silky pod are found run 

 wild on the Nilgiri Hills. The former is a native of Algeria; 

 the latter common in the S. of France and other Mediterranean 

 regions. 



4. Trifolium, L. 



Herbs. Leaves digitately trifoliolate, the stipules adnate to 

 the petiole. Flowers usually red or white, sometimes yellow, in 

 dense axillary heads spikes or umbels, rarely solitary. Calyy- 

 tube campanulate ; lobes 5, subeqnal, the lower ones sometimes 

 longer. Corolla adnate to the calyx-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, with few ovules; style filiform, 

 incurved above the base ; stigma oblique. Pod minute, included, 

 membranous, indehiscent, 1- or few-seeded. 



Flowers red, in dense rounded heads about 1 in. in diam., subtended 

 by a pair of opposite leaves ; leaflets oblong, stipules broad 



1. pratense. 



Flowers white or pinkish, in globose heads about '7 in. in diam., 

 without leaves and long-stalked ; leaflets obovate, ernarginate, 



stipules narrow , 2. repens. 



Flowers yellow, in leafless stalked heads about *2 in. in diam. - r 

 leaflets very small, obcordate, stipules small 3. dubium. 



1. TRIFOLIUM PRA.TENSE, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 86. 



Nilgiri Hills near the stations at 6,000-8,000 ft., introduced 



and run wild, " Red Clover." 



A perennial erect herb, a useful forage plant. 



2. TRIFOLIUM REPENS, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 86. 



Nilgiri Hills, in pastures at high levels, introduced and run 



wild, " White or Dutch Clover." 



A perennial creeping herb, also a useful forage plant. 



3. TRIFOLIUM DUBIUM, Sibth. T. minus, Sm.; F. B. I. ii. 86. 



Nilgiri Hills, on roadside and waste lands 011 the plateau, 

 introduced and run wild ; INT. Circars (Beddome). 

 An annual herb. 



5. Parochetus, Hamilt. 



A slender, creeping herb, rooting at the nodes. Leaves trifolio- 

 late; stipules free or shortly adnate to the petiole. Flowers 



