Oxalis. DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. _ 457 
Hind. and Beng. Lal-khesura. 
A native of various parts of India in wet places dur- 
ing the rainy season, 
2. B. ammanioides, Roxb. 
Annual, erect, ramous. Flowers axillary crowded 
with stamina, corresponding in number with the parts of 
the calyx and corol. 
Lechea verticillata. Willd. 1. p. 495. 
A native of various parts of India ; it appears and flow- 
ets during the rains and cool season, 
OXALIS. Schreb. gen. n. 794. 
Calyx five-leaved. Corol five-parted, cohering above 
the claws. Capsule, superior, tive-celled, five-valved, 
_ five-cornered, opening at the angles. 
- 1. 0. corniculata. Willd, 2. 800. 
Creeping, ramous, villous. Leaves ternate. Peduncles 
longer than the leaves, umbelliferous, Flowers monadel- 
phous. Filaments alternately shorter and sterile. Cap- 
sule subcylindric. 
2. O. pusilla. Salisbury in Trans. of Linn. Soe. 2. hits 
Sans. Amluionika, Chukrika, — 
Beng. Amrool. 
Common all over India, delighting in cool, dark, shady. 
moist places, where it blossoms most part of the year. 
3. O.sensitiva. Willd. 2. 804. 
Leaves pinnate. Peduncles umbelliferous. 
Hind. Lak chana, 
Todda vaddi. Rheed. Mal. 9, t.19. is a pretty good re- 
Presentation of a young plant, while Herba sentiens, 
Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 104. f. 2. is tolerable for an old one. 
Common all over India, and in flower the whole eee 
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