414 BENGAL PLANTS. [Trigonella, — 
less often a follicle opening by the ventral suture, rarely. sue 
thick and long-beaked or thinner, linear or compressed or terete, 
straight or faleate, continuous within. Sceds rather numerous; 
strophiole 0. 
Hrect, robust ; flowers 1-2, axillary ; pod long, turgid, beaked 
Fenum-grecim. 
Diffuse, slender ; flowers 6-12, closely racemose; pod flat, Pie: fal- 
cately recurved ...... rnicula 
577. TRIGONELLA Pyeng -GREcUM Linn. ; F. I. iii. 389; F. B. 1. 
ii. 87; E. D. T 
Cultivated in sy esac provinces. 
An annual crop. Vernac. Methi. A prs 
578. TRigoneLLA Cornicunara Linn.; F. I. iii. 389; F. B. 1, 
ii. 88, 
Tirhut and N. Bengal, cultivated ; in C, Bengal only a 
cold-weather weed and rare. Ben eng. Piring. 
259. Medicago Linn. 
Herbs, rarely shrubs; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; main-nerves 
of leaflets often excurrent as ma arginal teeth; stipules adnate; 
stipels 0. Flowers small, in axillary racemes or heads, rarely 
¢ 
from the calyx-tube; standard obovate or oblong, subsessile; 
wings oblong, longer than the obtuse keel. Stamens 10; vexillary 
: filament t free, the rest connate; filaments filiform; anthers 
uniform. Ovar) y sessile or shortly stipitate, usually many- -ovuled, 
rarely l-ovuled; style subulate, beardless ; ; stigma su beapitate, 
oblique. Fruit a spirally twisted, rarely falcate, indehiseent 
lomentum. Seeds several, rarely (M. lwpulina) solitary; stro- 
phiole 0. 
CO ee AC ee ee stn 
Stems diffuse, trailing; field-weeds : ; 
Pods minute, sickle- -shaped, Soatcse T-seeded ........sseseeeees lupulind. 
Pods subglobose, spiral, muricated oases 
579. Mrepicago Sativa Linn.; F, B. L. ii, 90; ED — M, 334 
A cold-weather fiche crop, especially 
A subereet, much-branched sorb, 1-2 feet — Lucerm, 
