Trigonella.} L. legdminosjb. (J. G. Baker.) 87 



cit. ; Wall. Cat. 6625 ; W. ^ A. Prod. 262 ; Wight Ic. t. 483. P. oxalidifolia, 

 Royle Blust. 201. P. maculata, R. Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Bar. 162, t. 34. 



Alpine, Temperate and Sttbteopioal Himalaya from Simla and Gaewhal to 

 Assam, alt. 4-13,000 ft. NrLomras, Ceylon, Birma, Wallich; Tenasseeim, PomA. — 

 DiSTEiE. Java, Zambesi-land. 



Skizome thread-like, ■wide-creeping. Petiole long, filiform, tearing leaves like 

 those of Oxalis Acetosella ; leaflets subsessile, ohovate, cuneate, emarginate, entire, 

 glabrous or slightly pubescent. Peduncles overtopping the leaves, 1-2-flowered. 

 Cali/x ^ in. deep ; teeth lanceolate. Corolla ^-| in., purplish-'white. Pod straight, 

 glabrous, linear, |-1 in. long. 



12. TBXG'ONEI.Z.A, Linn. 



Annual herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, toothed. Flowers racemed, 

 lemon-yellow. Calyx tube campaniilate ; teeth distinct, subequal. Petals free 

 from the staminal tube ; standard and wings narrow ; keel shorter, obtuse. 

 Stamens diadelphous; filaments not dilated; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, 

 many-ovuled ; style glabrous ; stigma terminal. Pod linear or linear-oblong, 

 compressed or subterete, not spiral, usually eiserted, many-seeded, continuous 

 within. — DisTKEB. Species 60, mostly Mediterranean and Oriental. Many cul- 

 tivated for forage. 



* Pod short, turgid. 



1. T. occulta, Belile ; DC. Prodr. ii. 185 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 84. T. 

 arguta, Visiani PI. ^gypt. 33, t. 8, fig. 1. 



Plains of Scinde, Stocks ; Uppee Gangetic Plain, near Lucknow, Anderson. — 

 DisTEiE. Egypt, Nubia. 



Diffuse, densely csespitose, glabrous or subglabrous, annual, with slender stems a. 

 few in. long. Stipules deeply laciniated ; petiole exceeding the sharply-toothed minutes 

 oblanceolate cuneate leaflets. Flowers 2-4 together in copious sessile axillary clusters. 

 Calyx I in. ; teeth linear-setaceous. Corolla slightly exserted. Pod elliptical, 

 scarcely exserted, glabrous, usually 2-seeded. 



** Pod long, turgid. 



2. T. Foenum-g'rsecuin, Linn. ; BC. Prodr. ii. 182 ; pod large long- 

 beaked, reticulations distant not transverse. Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 389 ; Wall. Cat. 

 5984; W. 8f A. Prodr. 196; Sibth. 8f Sm. Fl. Grceca, t. 766 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 ii. 70. 



Kashmie, Punjab, Uppee Gangetic Plain, &c. — Disteib. South Europe and 

 Orient, widely cultivated. 



Annual, robust, erect, subglabrous. Stipules not laciniated ; leaflets toothed, 

 |-1 in. long, oblanceolate-oblong. Flowers 1-2, sessile in the axils of the leaves. 

 Calyx \-^ in., teeth linear. Corolla much exserted. Pod 2-3 in. long, 10-20-seeded, 

 with a long persistent beak, often falcate. 



3. T. polycerata, LAnn.; BC. Prodr. ii. 184; pod small not beaked, 

 reticulations close transverse, fiowers 1-6 in a sessile or short-pedunoled umbel. 

 T. ineisa, Royle III. 197 ; Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 36, t. 42 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 ii. 76. T. pinnatiflda, Cav. ; BC. Prodr. ii. 183. T. monantha, C. A. Meyer in 

 Led. Fl. Ross. i. 634 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 77. T. ortboceras, Kar. ^ Kir. ; 

 Wdl/p. Rep. i. 637 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 77. T. geminiflora, Bunge Rel. Lehm. 

 71. T. brahuioa, Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 73. 



Punjab and ITpfek Gangetic Plain, ascending to 6000 ft. — Disteib. West 

 Siberia, Orient, South Europe to Spain. 



Anntial, more slender, branched and diffuse than in the last. Stipules not laci- 

 niated ; points setaceous ; leaflets smaller, sharply inciso-dentate or even pinnatifid, 



