Plants of the Punjab, 



553 



PROSTBATE HEIXBa WITB. ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LeAVES. 



Trifolium pratense, 

 Purple clover, 



Treparta, chitbatta. 



LEGUMINOSiB. 



F. B. I. ii. 86. 

 Himalaya, 

 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Petals ununited. 



small perennial, hairy, stems reclining ; leaves of 3 

 leaflets, leaflets ovate or oblong, entire or toothed, tip 

 blunt or notched, end leaflet sessile, stipules united to the 

 leaf stalk, large, ovate, veined, long-pointed, much shorter 

 than the leaf stalks ; flowers small, purple, many in long- 

 stalked ovoid or round heads, f-l|in. diam., with 1 or 2 

 leaves at the base, calyx bell-shaped, teeth 5, nearly equal, 

 or 3 lower longest, narrow, longer than the tube, petals 

 ■arrow, persistent, keel blunt, stamens 10, upper free, rest 

 united, style lightly curved, smooth ; pod very small in the 

 withered corolla, seed one. This plant supphes good fodder. 



Trifolium repens, hke the last species, but stipules narrow, oblong, flowers 



Dutch clover, white or tinged with pink, pod 3-4-seeded. 



Shamrock, 



SJiaftal, shotul. 

 Leguminosje. 

 F. B. I. ii. 86. 

 Himalaya, 

 20,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Baluchistan 

 (Stocks). 



Trifolium fragiferum, very like the last species, but flowers pinker, calyx 



Strawberry clover, enlarged in fruit forming a red bladder round the small, 



Leguminos^. 1-2-seeded pod. 



F. B, I. ii. 86. 



Kashmir, 



Baluchistan (Duke). 



Trifolium minus, 

 Lesser clover, 



Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 86. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Parochetus 

 communis, 



LEGUMINOSiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 86. 



Himalaya, 



east of the Sutlej, 



4-13,000 ft. 



Matiana in grass 



(Collett). 



annual, nearly smooth, stem trailing, stipules broadly 

 lanceolate, nearly as long as the leaf stalk, heads \ in. 

 diam., ovoid, flowers yellow, pod obovoid, 1 -seeded, calyx 

 not enlarged in fruit ; for other characters see the last 

 species. 



perennial, hairy, stems long, fine, rooting at the joints ; 

 leaves of 3 leaflets, leaflets heart-shaped with the pointed 

 end inwards, entire or minutely toothed, stipules lance- 

 olate, nearly free ; flowers |-f in. long, deep violet blue, 

 solitary or in pairs at the end of a stalk longer than the 

 leaves, calyx tube 5-toothed, bell-shaped, petals free, 

 standard erect, stalked, keel shorter than the wing petals, 

 stamens 10, upper stamen free, others united, style smooth, 

 turned in ; pod |-1 in., straight, tipped with the style, 

 seeds many. 



