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25. LEGIJMINOSJE. 
10. Melilotus Lam. 
Melilot. 
1. M. PARVIFLORA Desf. 
St. erect or diffuse and ascending; lfts. broadly obovate- 
oblong, tlie lower obovate or obcuneate, the upper narrow 
oblong or lanceolate and somewhat feebly or irregularly serru- 
late, all obtuse ; stip. lanceolate-acuminate ; fl. very small shortly 
stalked, in crowded dense many-fld. not awned or mucronate rac. ; 
pedic. not above half the length of cal. ; sep. nearly equal ; cor. 
but little longer than cal., icings and keel equal, nearly or quite as 
long as standard ; pods small smooth subglobose or roundish-oval 
very obtuse somewhat faintly and remotely corrugate or reticu- 
lately rugidose 1-seeded. — Desf. ii. 192 ; DC. ii. 187 ; Spr. iii. 
200; Koch 183; Seub. Fl. Azor. 49. no. 369. M. indica (All.) 
WB. ! ii. 67 ; Bucli ! 197. no. 402 ; Moris Sard. i. 459. t. 56. 
Trifolium Melilotus Indica Brot. ii. 102. — Herb. ann. Mad. 
reg. 1, cc ; PS. reg. 2. 3, cc ; ND. | ; GD. reg. 2, | ; SD. £. 
Cornfields and open sunny places almost everywhere ; in Mad. 
only near the sea, as about the Praia, cliffs to the E., P ta S. 
Lourengo, Ac. ; in PS. more up the hills. March- July. — 
St. branched 1-2 ft. high, the side-branches ascending. Whole 
pi. smooth with a strong bitterish hay-like scent, especiall} r in 
drying ; foliage bright full gr. Lfts. before flowering rather 
large and broad, 9 or 10 lines long, 4 or 5 broad ; the lower 
nearly or quite entire, the upper narrow-oblong toothed. Stip. 
ovate-lanceolate finely acuminate sometimes obsoletelv denti- 
culate at the base. Fl. minute bright y. in dense cylindric 
crowded spikes rather than rac. 1-2 in. long. Sep. all equi- 
distant nearly equal. Pods orbicular and turgid, rather sub- 
globose than ovate, 1 line in diam., not mucronate beaked or 
bordered, pale with only 3 or 4 remote arched transverse ana- 
stomosing wrinkles, reticulate or corrugate, not plaited. Seeds 
oval flattened rufescent closely and minutely granulate ; radicle 
not prominent. 
2. M. Lippoldiana Lowe. 
St. erect; lfts. broadly roundish-obovate, or shortly wedge- 
shaped suborbicular, the upper oblong-obovate, sharply un- 
equally denticulate ; stip. obsolete or small narrow linear-acu- 
minate ; II. middle-sized loosely racemose distinctly stalked , rac. 
not awned or mucronate ; pedic. about the length and cor. twice 
the. length of cal., wings shorter than the keel and standard ; cal. f , 
sep. urn-quid’, pods I -seeded smooth turgidly ovate beaked keeled 
or bordered, somewhat closely ribbed with distinct arched wary 
plaits or wrinkles. — Hook. .1. Hot. viii. 292. M. italica Bucli! 
197. no. 403. Trifolium Mel. italica Sol. ! in BH. (not Linn.). — 
