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 . tEYLON.— DisTRiB. Trouical Asia, Africa, and America, 

 ^ofms long or short, slender or robust, hispidly pubescent. Leaves l\~b in.; petiole 

 Wspidulous or merely ciliate ; leaflets very variable in size, j-J in., sometimes arched 

 a little upwards, nearly equal at the base except the terminal one, which is obovate and 

 obnque at the contracted base, nerves few or man^ rather oblique often waved, 

 -re(/wncZe5 very variable, i-5in., hispid, sometimes swollen at the tip; bracts rigid, 

 Vh^^^"^' pedicels usually shorter than the sepals, sometimes equalling them «.r a 

 nttle longer. Sepals rigid, subulate-lanceolate, grooved, glandular and hispid. P.tals 

 usually twice as hmg as the sepals, yellow (sometimes purple ?). Cap9ide elliptic, 

 8 ining; cells few-seeded. Seeds very variable, minute, with transverse oblique acute 

 or obtuse ridges that are more or less broken u|> into tubercles. " , ^' ^ 



y ^' f^^^dolleana; leaflets 10-15 pairs, more or less strigose or appressed pilose on 

 the upper surface, seeds both tubercled and grooved. B. Candrdleanum, Wight 111 i. 

 ibl, t. 62 ; Wall Cat, 4343 D.— Western Peninsula, and C^eylon, ■ 

 » AR. 2. assamica; leaves 3-7 in., leaflets 7-15 pairs glabrous, petiole and rachis 



io^^i^^^^^'^^^*^^* seeds turbinate smooth acutely furrowed, flowers yellow. Wall Cat. 

 - 43-43 G.— Assam. 



yj' ^^'^' nervifolia ; leaflets about 12 pairs glabrous, nerves few strong and waved 

 g"^^th as in B. Apodiscias. B. nervit'oliura, Thwaites Enum. 64.— Bengal, Ceylon. 

 *^'^^geworth, who has laboriously studied the Indian forms of this genus, distin- 

 tt Av^^ species— 1, B, Candolleanum, described above; 2, B. sesbanioides, Edgew. 

 ™88 lvVall.Cat.4343 A), with ciliate downy nerved leaflets, and (judging from dried spe- 

 wnene) purple flowers; 3, B. Cumingianum, Turcz, in Bull. Mosc, with 6-15 pairs of 

 Parous leaflets, and 4, B. poterioides, Edgew. mss. (Wall. Cat. 4343 B) which is stein- 

 S8 with 6-12 pairs of glabrous leaflets, strongly nerved beneath, purple petals and 

 -fU'iing not tubergled seeds with forked furrows. 



tfr/ ?'i ^P^disclas, TuTcz. in Bull Mosc, xxxvi. i 599 (Aposcias ht/ 



V^^ry leaflets 5-7 pairs small shortly and renifurmly obovoid widening 



wards the rounded tip, nerves beneatn few strong horizont^ waved, pedi- 



mV^ssile, seeds with scattered tubercles. Oxalis sessilis, //a??u7^on in 



/|^. Ca^. 4344. O. Petersii, Klotzsch in Peters Mossamb. Reis. Bot t. 5. 



-frnn^e^ Monghir, Hamilton; Assam, GHffith; Khasia Mts., alt. 3-5000 ft., 



; ■ A * \^ ^- ^-y Mysore and Caknatic, G, J^homs, Herb. 



cmT 1 ^^^ ^-2 !"•> slender. Leaves I-I4 in., crowded; leaflets rather cona- 

 > tbp t • ' ^^® lowest smallest orbicular-ovate, the middle ones truncate at the base, 



loiL "^"^' with a contracted oblioue base and much arched midrib; petiole puberu-_ 



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„ -p ^f>wer5 i in. long. Sepals exceeding the pedicels.— Probably only a state of 

 tnidriK*1-'^u'"' ^PP^'oaching var. nervifolium, but distinguished by the small size, arched 

 ^ ot the leaflets, absence of peduncle, and simply tubercled seeds. 





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,. - very unequarat the base' midrib straight, peduncles slender, 

 aicels equalling the sepals. 



TeJasserim, at Mergui, Griffith. , , . , 



6ilfJ*'^^,<l>8tmct and large species : stem, petiole, rachis and peduncles tomentoee and 



C' ■^'"•^** I "1- I"»g. siJes nearly straight, base obliquely truncate, lower edge 



J»eliF^V°°S' «<?»e times produced Into au obscure lobe at the anterior luai gin. 



f'*<*ncles slender, with a clubbed mass of bracts at the apex. Flowers imperfect. 



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ron;?^ *«lnwardt*l, Walp. Eep. i. 476 ; leaflets 10-20 pairs oblong tip 

 Dedn n ? ■^'i'^^1 at the base glabrous, midrib str^ght, nerves slender oblique, 

 Sfl^^i slender, pedicels equalling or exceeding, the small flowers, 



^[^".^^ost equalling the small sepals. 



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