AVERHOA. ` : OXALIDE E. 141 
axillary, solitary, 2-4- but usually 3-flowered: pedicels slender, longer than 
the peduncles: lateral sepals as long as the others; anterior. one concave, 
gibbous at the base, with a short curved spur tumid at the point: ante- 
rior petals somewhat 3-lobed, with the margins involute near the base.— 
Wight! cat. n. 445.—Impatiens triflora, Linn.! in herb. Herm.!; Willd.; 
DC. prod. 1. p. 687 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 808; Roth. nov. sp. p. 164; Wall.! L. 
n. 4756.—I. natans, Willd. sp. 1. p. 1175 ; DC. prod. 1. p. 697 ; Spr. syst. 1. 
p.808; Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 652; (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 455; Wall. ! L. n. 4755.— 
I. baccifera, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. t. 440; herb. Heyne.—Burm. Zeyl. t. 16. 
J. 2.——Not unfrequent in ditches and tanks in the Tanjore country, flower- 
ing during the autumn. 
. We have given a specific character, lest the species from Java, H. angus- 
tifolia, Bl., be distinct. J. triflora of Linnseus has been long involved in doubt: 
we have, however, examined the original specimen in Hermann's herbarium, 
in which also is an excellent drawing, exhibiting the sepals and petals all 
distinct as we have described them: the spur, notwithstanding Burmann's 
inaccurate figure and description, is quite as in our plant. 
ORDER XLIV.—OXALIDEZ. DC. 
Sepals 5, equal, sometimes cohering at the base, persistent : sestiva- 
tion imbricative. Petals 5, hypogynous, equal, unguiculate : :estivation 
twisted. Stamens 10, hypogynous, more or less monadelphous ; those 
opposite the petals longer than the others: anthers erect, bilocular. 
Ovarium 5-angled, 5-celled : ovules solitary or several in each cell : 
styles 5, filiform: stigmas capitate, or slightly bifid. Placentæ in the 
axis. Fruit rarely baceate ; usually capsular, membranous, 5-celled, 
and 5-10-valved. Seeds 1 or several in each cell: testa fleshy, burst- 
ing elastically. Albumen between cartilaginous and fleshy. Embryo 
straight, as long as the albumen: radicle long, next the hilum: coty- 
ledons foliaceous.—Leaves compound (or by abortion simple), alter- 
nate, seldom opposite or whorled. 
I. AVERHOA.  Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 385. 
Sepals more or less united at the base. Petals 5. Stamens 5 (alternate 
with the petals), or 10 (the alternate ones snialler), combined at the base into 
ashort annulus. Ovary angled. Styles 5, persistent. Berry large, oblong, 
5-furrowed, 5-celled. Seeds few in each cell, attached to the central angle.— 
Trees. Leaves alternate, in A. Bilimbi irritable to the touch, unequally pin- 
nated ; leaflets entire. Flowers racemosely panicled. Fruit edible. 
464. (1) A. Carambola (Linn.:) leaflets ovate, acuminated, 2-5 : calyx 
glabrous: limb of the petals roundish: stamens 5: fruit acutely angled : 
seeds arillate.— DC. prod. 1. p. 689; Spr. syst. 2. p. 440; Roxb. ft. Ind. 2. 
Mar in E.I. C. mus. t. 944; Wall.! L. n. 4945 ; Wight! cat. n. 458.— 
ed. Mal. 3. t. 43, 44; Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 35. 
“ The Sanskrita name is pi a in the vulgar dialects of the north 
corrupted into Kama-ranga, a name which extends from the Ganges even ies 
Ceylon ; and I suspect that even the T'amaratonga, which Rheede says 1s t ` 
vulgar name in Malabar, is a mere corruption, by errors m copiers an 
Printers, of the same word. As for Carambola, it is, I suspect, one of those 
Productions of careless travellers, which are considered as Indian words by 
