— Prigonetta.] LEGUMINOS#. 413 
257. Melilotus Linn. 
Annual or biennial herbs; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; main- 
racemes; bracts minute or 0; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, connate in 
4campanulate tube ; teeth subequal, lanceolate. Petals deciduous, 
free from the staminal tube ; standard obovate or oblong, sub- 
sessile; wings oblong, longer than the obtuse keel. Stamens 10; 
Vexillary filament free or connate in the middle with the others; 
filaments filiform; anthers uniform. Ovary ‘y sessile or stipitate, 
few-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved; stigma - small 
or indehiscent lome a longer than the calyx. Seeds few or 
solitary ; strophiole 
Corolla minute, yellow ; pod usually 1-seeded ; annual............... indica, 
Corolla rather larger, white ; pod often 2-seeded ; bignnial ON. chee alba. 
575. She pie inpica All. M. parviflora F. B. I. ii. 80; EB. D. 
M. 422. Trifolium ae F. I. iii. 388 
In all the province 
A small field- weed ‘of the cold season. Vernac. Ban- 
methi. 
576. voor ALBA Lamk; F. B. I. ii. 89. 
n all the provinces. 
A field-weed appearing in the cold season. Vernac. 
Safed ban-methi. 
258. Trigonella Linn. 
Annual herbs; leaves — 3-foliolate ; main-nerves of the 
leaflets usually excurrent as ma rginal teeth; stipules adnate ; 
stipels 0. Flowers solitary ‘ila or capitate, subumbellate or 
densely racemed on ver y short or elongated axillary peduncles ; 
bracts minute or obsolete; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, connate in a 
tubular calyx ; “teeth distinct, subequal. Petals free from 
Staminal tube; standard obovate or oblong, short-clawed or 
Sessile ; wings oblong, longer than the obtuse keel. 0 
Yexillary filament free or connate in the middle with the others ; 
filaments filiform; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or shortly 
Stipitate, many-ovuled; style filiform or thickened, beardless ; 
stigma, terminal, small. Frwit usually an indehiseent grape 
