404 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



344. G. medicaginea, Lamh. h.f.b.i., it. 81. 



Syn. : — C. procurnbens, Roxb, 551. 



Vern. :— GuMbi (Pb.). 



Habitat : — Tropical regions of the West Himalayas and 

 India. 



A diffuse, perennial, herbaceous plant, with slender, much- 

 branched stems, diffuse, |-lft. long, thinly silky upwards. 

 Stipules setaceous, very minute, deciduous. Leaves trifoliate. 

 Leaflets J-Jin. long, retuse, emarginate, glabrous above, 

 obscurely silky below. Petioles shorter than the oblanceolate 

 leaflets. Racemes copious, 2-6-flowered, terminal and leaf- 

 opposed. Peduncles exceeding the leaves ; bracts minute, 

 linear. Coralla twice the calyx. Calyx thinly silky, campanulate, 

 Jin. deep ; teeth linear, exceeding the tube. Corolla yellow. 

 Pod. | in. long, glabrescent, obliquely subglobose, small, 

 sessile, 2-seeded. 



Use : — This plant is officinal in the Punjab. 



345. Trigonella occulta, Delile. h.f.b.i., ii 87. 

 Habitat :— Si-nd, the Punjab and N.-W. Provinces. 



An annual herb, diffuse, densely caespitose, glabrous or 

 sub-glabrous, with slender stems, a few inches long. Leaves 

 pinnately 3-foliate, toothed. Stipules deeply laciniate. Petioles 

 exceeding the sharply-toothed, minute, oblanceolate cuneate 

 leaflets. Flowers 2-4 together, in copious, sessile, axillary clus- 

 ters. Calyx ^in., campanulate, teeth linear-setaceous. Corolla 

 slightly exserted' ; petals free from the staminal-tube. Pod 

 elliptical, short, turgid, scarcely exserted, glabrous, usually 

 2-seeded. 



Use : — The seeds are used in dysenteric affections (Murray). 



346. T. Foenum-gr cecum, Linn, h.f.b.i,, ii. 87, 



Roxb; 588 



Sans. :— Methi. 

 Arab. : — Hulbah. 

 Vers. : — Shamlit. 



