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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Lotononis 

 Leobordea, 



LEGUMINOSiE. 



F, B. I. ii. 64. 



Peshawar (Stewart). 



Baluchistan 



(Hughes-BuUer). 



Leaflets two-three. , 



small, annual, finely silky, branches manj^ spread- 

 ing ; leaves digitately compound, leaflets 3, |-| in. long, 

 lanceolate, rather fleshy, tip blunt, broad, with a minutely 

 fine point, leaf stalks as long as the leaves, stipules minute, 

 lanceolate, soon '■falling off; flowers \ in., pale yellow or 

 red, nearly sessile, 1-5, in the axils of most of the leaves, 

 calyx 1-4 in., silky, teeth 5, lowest tooth deepest, petals 5, 

 a little longer than the calyx, standard narrow^ wings 

 shorter, narrower, keel petals firmly united, longer, tip 

 sharply incurved, stamens 10, united in a tube, slit along 

 the top, anthers as in the last species ; pod linear-oblong, 

 scarcely longer than the calyx, seeds 4-8. 



Crotalaria 

 medicaginea, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 

 pound. 



Ononis hircina, 



see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 



Trifolium pratense, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 



Trigonella 



FcBnum-grsecum, 



Fenugreek, 



Mdhi. 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. L ii. 87. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 

 Hazara. 

 Ba'uchistan (Lace). 



medium size, annual, cultivated, strongly scented, 

 robust, nearly smooth ; leaves pinnately compound, leaflets 

 |-1 in. long, lanceolate-oblong, tip broad, toothed, lateral 

 nearly sessile, terminal stalked, nerves prominent, running 

 into the teeth, stipules lanceolate, entire, long-pointed, 

 united to the leaf stalk ; flowe:s small, pale yellowy in short 

 racemes at the end of axillary stalk, often bristle-tipped, 

 calyx \-\ in., bell-shaped, teeth 5, distinct, linear, petals 

 5, narrow, standard and wings nearl}'- equal, keel shorter, 

 blunt, a little longer than the calyx, stamens 10, upper 

 nearly or quite free, others united ; pod 2-3 in. long, often 

 curved, long-beaked, seeds 10-20. This plant is cultivated 

 as a fodder crop and a pot herb, the seeds arc used as a 

 spice and as a carminative. 



Trigonella 

 polycerata, 



see 

 pound. 



Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 



