Biophytum.] xxxii, geraniace^. (Edg-ewortli & Hook, f.) 



439 





aitters m being apparently annual, and having more'pilose foliage. 



r (y&r.l.^pulneyense; annual, stem simple below subumbellately branched above, 



0. sensitivum, Eerh. Wight Kew Didrih. 302. 



.kaflets slightly "hairy aboye. 

 rulnej Mts. 



Var. 2. verticillatum ; annual?, stem dichotomously branched, leaves and leaflets 

 ^jmaller often much ciliated on one or both surfaces. B. verticillatum, Wight 111 i. 162, 

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 otem siout umbellately branched, leaves lon^ very narrow flexuous, leaflets 



niinute 30-50 pairs shortly falcate-oblong gradually and obliquely acuminate 

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- ^.. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, pinnate with a terminal leaflet; 



leaflets subopposite. Flowers small, regular, in panicled axillary or ramal 



• ?^^^ >^^y>f«6* 5, imbricate. Petals 5, contorted. Glands 0. Siaimiis 10, 



" w>l ^* ^^^ '^^®^' ^^^ perfect or 5 without anthers. C^mry 5-lobed, 5-celled, 



J^ituout a beak; styles 5, distinct, stigmas capitate ; ovules numerous in the 



^^^/Bary oblong, 6-lobed. ' ' 



"^shy; embryo straiglit.— Distiub. Three or four species, of which two are 

 ^P^^^^-yy cultivated in many hot countries, probably both natives of the 

 ^?ei World, in which alone is a native species found. Very likely both 



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ftv^ V'^^^MBOLA, Linn. ; DC. Frodr. i. 689 ; 

 ,^ i^janceolate acute glabrous and glaucous beneath, fruit with acutely 

 ^.i ^°^^«' seeds arillate. Boxb. Fl hid. ii. 450 ; W. & A. Frodr. 141 ; 

 f>mnof„ ^or. Flor. 45 : Beddome Fl. Sjhat. 2Q.—Rheede HorL Mai. lu. 



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;i^Tn gardens througliout the hotter parts of 

 .^""try unknown. ^ 



pj. ^^^^\ tree, densely hranched. Leaflets H-3 in. ; petiole stout, pubescent. 

 •Inner * v^^ axillary, variegated white and purple. Calyx glabrous, half as 

 g as the petals. Stamens 10, 5 shorter without anthers, or sometimes 1 or 2 of 

 ^«se longer and antheriferous. Ovary pubescent. Fruit 3 in. long, yellow; aril 



The former is eaten 



l^M, lacerate, 

 'aw and cooked. 



Two varieties are known, sweet and sour. 

 Leaflets irritable to the touch. 



Bni ?^^MBI, J^inn. ; BO. Frodr. i. 689 ; leaflets 5-17 pairs oblong or 

 uear-ianceolate acuminate pubescent beneath, fruit with 5 rounded lobes, 



fS^^,''\ ^'^^^^te. Foxb. k. Ind. ii. 451 ; W. ct A. Frodr. 142; Brand 

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