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An erect shrub 3-G feet high with robust sulcate stem and branches. Stipule* 

 minnte setaceous, deciduous, petiole 2 in., leaflets 3-5 in. long, narrowed at both 

 ends, glabrons above, obscurely silky below. Racemes 20-30-fld., 4-6 in. long, 

 flowers close-set, much like those of C . Saltiana ; pods also similar but somewhat 

 more turgid and without appreciable stalk. 



Exceedingly closely related to the Indian and African C. Saltiana but easily 

 distinguished by its much shorter racemes with closely packed flowers and by its 

 totally differen£ foliage. The leaves of this species are exactly like those of 

 C. bracteata, for which species, in the absence of fruits, this is apt to be mistaken. 

 After an examination of 75 specimens of 29 different gatherings of the common 

 C. Saltiana the writer finds that from such various localities as Sikkim, Western 

 India, Ceylon, Bengal, Assam, Burma, Siam, Perak, Penang, Malacca, Singapore 

 and Java, the species shows no tendency to vary ; it never has any but obtuse leaflets 

 and in no instance is even the larger terminal leaflet more than 1\ in. long. 



75. Crotalaria quinquefolia Linn. 



Add to localities of F. B. L : — Malay Peninsula ; Kedah, Kunstler ! 

 Singapore, Hullett ! 



10. TRIFOLIUM Linn. 



1*. Trifolium dubium Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 231 ; trailing, peduncles 

 very slender elongated naked, flowers yellow, very small. T. minus 

 Relhan, Fl. Cantab, ed. 2. 290 ; Smith, Engl Flor. iii. 3 JO. T. filiforme 

 Smith, Flor. Brit. ii. 792 vix Linn. 



Himalaya; Simla, Gamble! Collett ! Darjeeling; Jallapahar, King ! 

 Nilgiris ; Ootacamund, Schmidt! Wight / Clarke! King! Distrir. 

 Europe. 



Annual, stems 10-20 in. and leaves nearly glabrons. Leaflets truncate or 

 notched, finely toothed ; petiole short slender. Heads 4-20-fld., very small, flowers 

 small turning ultimately brown. Calyx campanulate ; pod obovoid. 



This is so completely naturalised in the neighbourhood of hill-atations both in 

 South and in North India that it must now be given a place in the Indian Flora. 



12. TRIGONELLA Linn. 



1. Trigonella occulta Delile. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Rajputana ; Marwar, King ! Centl. 

 India ; Jerdon ! 



4. Trigonella hamosa Linn. 



No doubt Indian : localities of specimens in Herb. Calcutta are : — 



Upper Gangetic Plain ; Gohanee, A. 0. Hume ! near Eta wall, 

 Duthie n. 4594! Centl. India; Jerdon! King! Rajputana; Jodhpur, 

 King ! 



13. MEL1L0TCJS Juss. 

 1. Melilotus indica All. Flor. Fed. i. 308. 

 This being the older name must be substituted for the name M. parviflora. 



