I )isli il)nli()ii: l''.iii()|)c. s(iii(li-\\ cslorii Asia lo Tuikcslan and AI'L;liaiii.slaii. llif liasl 

 liulii's, soulluin Siliciia. Moiij^olia. luii IIkth C.liiiia, Xoilli Aniciira ( iiilrocliicecl). 



IMclilotus (lenlaliis (Wallsl. el Kit.) Pcrsooii. Syiiops. IMaiil. II (1807) ]>. ,'581: Lcdcl). 

 Vl All. 111. p. 25;i: Lc'dol). Fl. I'.(),s.s. 1. p. ^^^^:r, Scluilz, Moiioyr. .l/c/Z/o/i/i- in Englei's .laliri). 

 B. 2<J. H. 5 (1901) p. (187: Kpi.i.i. -Im. A.m. II (1903) p. 219. 



Oil the stepix's on llic riu-lu'iii, hclwceu Hjelo.saisU ami C.lia-lail. Willi ripe pod.s al 

 Mic l)ci;iiininL; of Aunusl. llu' Icavi's ol' lliis species resemble slrildiii^ Ihose of Trifoliiun 

 lupiiuislrr. 



Distrihulion: Soulli-eastern and middle luiiope. iioilliw aids lo soullieiii Sweden, 

 southern Siberia, eastwards to Trans Baikal, Turkestan. 



Meliiolus suaveolens Ledeb. Ind. Sem. Hort. Dorj)at. (1824) p. 5; Turczan. Cat. Bai- 



cal. no. 299: Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. ."liU): Seluilz, Monoi^r. Meliiolus no. 'r. Turczan. I"l. Baical.- 

 Dahur. (1812) p. 722, no. 288; K|,i,i.i. 'I'.i A.n. 11 (1903) p. 220. 



On the banks of Ihe river .Abakan, between Ust Kamuishto and list Abakansk. 

 l'h)\\c'iiniii 'iiid with young pods at Ihe end of .lune. 



Dislriljiilion: Turkestan, Siberia, northwards to about (18 noilh lal.. iiorllurii Mon- 

 golia, eastern Asia, the East Indies, Sakhalin, .lapan. 



Meliiolus albiis Medicus. York Churpf. Pliys. Ok. Ges. II (1787) ]). 382; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross. I, p. 536; Schulz, Monogr. Meliiolus no. 4; ]i"|ii,i.i. <1).t. A.it. II (1903) p, 221. .1/. inil- 

 garis Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. II (1809) p. 790; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. III. p. 255; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 298; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 722, no. 287. 



Scattered on sandy river-banks, on islets in the rivers Yenisei and Abakan, and 

 near U.st Kamuishto. The specimens collected are large and Nigorous, about 1 m. high, with 

 hollow stems, and large leaflets, to 30 mm. long and 14 mm. broad, the margins of w Inch 

 are shaiply and irregularly serrate. The peduncle is, during the flowering, lo 11 cm. long, 

 of about the same length as the raceme itself, and the flowers 5— G mm. long. Thus, 

 tiiesc specimens seemed most properly lo have to be referred to f. nrgutus (Reiciikxr.) 

 ScHiLZ, 1. c. p. 096; Meliiolus aigulus Reichenb. Fl. Germ. Exc. II (1830—1832). The 

 species flowers in the second half of .lune. In the Urjankai country I have collected the 

 species past flowering and w ilh pods at the beginning of September, near Cha-kul. on the 

 banks of llie river Ulu-kem. 



Distribution: Europe, south-western Asia to India, Siberia, northwards to 68° north 

 lal., and eastwards to about the government of Irkutsk; further to the ea.st the plant is 

 very rare, and probably introduced, Tibet, Mongolia, China (only near Peking), intro- 

 fluced into North America and .\ustralia. 



Trifoliuni prafense L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1082; Ledeb. Fl. All. III. p. 2.56: Tur- 

 czan. Cat. Raical. no. ilOl; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 547; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 

 724, no. 290; Kpi,i.i. tl>.i. A.rr. II (1903) p. 224. 



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