Flora Medica

TRIFOLIUM.seeded, and something longer than the calyx. Herbaceousplants. Leaflets 3-nate or quinate. Flowers capitate, sometimeswith a cup-shaped involucre.4-92. T. alpinum Linn. sp. pi 1080. Sturm deutschl.fi. i.fasc. 15. DC. prodr. ii. 204. Hall. helv. n. 369. Alps ofEurope.Quite smooth. Stems very short, thick, subterraneous. Petioleslong ; leaflets 3, linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse, toothletted ; stipulesvery long and narrow, linear, acute. Heads umbellate, on long stalks ;pedicels very small, rather whorled. Calyx campanulate the ; segmentsequal, very long, setaceous/much shorter than the corolla. Legumes2-seeded. DC. The roots possess the same properties as liquorice.PSORALEA.Sepals 5, combined to the middle into a permanent 5-cleftcalyx the tube ; usually covered with glands divisions acuminated,the lowest one sometimes longer than the others. Sta-;mens 10, usually diadelphous (9 and 1), the tenth sometimesconnected with the others at the base. Legume the length ofthe calyx, indehiscent, 1 -seeded, sometimes ending in a beak.Shrubs or herbaceous plants, usually warted from glandular tubercles.Leaves of various forms. Stipules adnate to the baseof the petiole. Inflorescence various. Flowers blue, white, orpurple. W. and A.493. P. corylifolia Linn, sp.pl. 1075. Burm.fi. ind. 172 t. 49.DC. prodr.ii. 218. W. and A. i. 198. Various parts ofIndia.Herbaceous, erect. Leaves simple, roundish-ovate, occasionallyslightly cordate at the base, repand-toothed ; stipules narrow-lanceolate,recurved. Racemes dense, spike-like, usually short and capituliform,on long axillary solitary peduncles. Pedicels much shorter than thecalyx, about three together from each bractea. W. and A. Seeds consideredin India stomachic and deobstruent.INDIGOFERA.Calyx 5-cleft ;segments acute. Vexillum roundish, emarginate: keel furnished with a subulate spur on both sides, atlength often bending back elastically. Stamens diadelphous(9 and 1). Style filiform, glabrous. Legume continuous, 1 ormore-seeded, 2-valved. Seeds usually truncated, separated bycellular spurious partitions. Herbaceous cr shrubby. Stipulessmall, free from the petiole. Peduncles axillary. Flowers racemose,purple, blue, or white ; many of the upper ones of eachraceme frequently becoming abortive. Leaves various, usuallyunequally pinnated or digitate : hairs, either all or some ofthem, adpressed and attached by their middle. W. and A.241 R