142 OXALIDEZE. Oxaris. 
Europeans, and as European words by the Indians.”—Ham. in Wern. Soc. 
Tr. 5. p. 834. ; à 
465. €» A. Bilimbi (Linn.:) leaflets oblong-lanceolate, acuminated, 5-10 
pair: calyx pubescent: limb of the petals ovate-oblong: stamens 10: fruit 
obtusely angled: seeds exarillate——DC. prod. 1. p. 689; Spr. syst. 2. p. 440; 
Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 451; Wall.! L. n. 4346; Wight! cat. n. 975.—Rheed. 
Mail. 3. t. 45, 46; Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 36. 
IT. OXALIS. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 391; Gertn. fr. t. 113. 
Sepals 5, distinct or combined at the base. Petals 5. Stamens 10: fila- 
ments distinct or shortly connected at the base, the 5 alternate ones shorter. 
Styles 5, usually crowned with pencil-like, rarely capitate or bifid, stigmas. 
Capsule 5-angled, globose, ovate, oblong, or cylindrical ; cells with 1 or se- 
veral seeds.—Caulescent, stipitate or stemless herbaceous plants, usually 
perennial, rarely annual. Leaves various. 
W'e omit here O. caprina, Linn.? (Wight! cat. n. 459), the specimens having 
been obtained at Longwood in St Helena. 
$ 1. Annual or suffruticose with a naked stem, bearing at the apex an umbel or 
corymb of abruptly pinnated leaves : leaflets numerous, opposite: peduncles 
1-, or umbellately many-flowered.—Biophytum, DC. 
466. (1) O. sensitiva (Linn.:) stem scarcely any: leaves umbellate, irri- 
table to the touch: leaflets 10-14 pairs, obliquely obovate or oblong, 
obliquely truncate at both base and apex, mucronulate ; upper side glabrous 
or slightly hairy, nearly veinless; under glaucous, glabrous, with a prominent 
midrib and diverging veins: peduncles from among the leaves, usually seve- 
ral together, pubescent, from half as long to twice as long as the leaves, in- 
crassated at the apex: flowers numerous, umbellate ; pedicels intermixed 
with numerous bracteas at their base : sepals lanceolate-subulate, with nu- 
merous longitudinal striæ: filaments distinct: pistils shorter than the sta- 
mens: cells of the ovary about 4-ovuled.—Spr. syst. 2. p. 432: Roxb. fl. Ind. 
2. p. 457; in E. I. C. mus. t. 1244: Wight! cat. n. 461, 462.—Biophytum 
sensitivum, DC. prod. 1. p. 690; Wall.! L. n. 4347.—Rheed. Mal. 9. t. 195 
Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 104. f.2. ^ — i 
$ 2. Caulescent, stipitate or stemless herbaceous plants : leaves pinnately 1-3- 
Soliolate, or palmately 3-13-foliolate, rarely bifoliolate : peduncles 1-2- or 
many-flowered.—Oxalis, DC. 
467. (2) O. corniculata (Linn.:) stems decumbent, branched, radieating, 
leafy : stipules united to the base of the petiole: leaves palmately 3-foliolate: 
leaflets obcordate, pubescent : peduncles 2-5- but mostly 2-flowered : sta- 
mens monadelphous : sepals pubescent : petals emarginate : pistils as long as 
the longer stamina: capsule many-seeded, densely pubescent.—DC. prod. 1. 
p. 692; Spr. syst. 2. p. 429; Roab. fl. Ind. 2. p. 457 ; Wall.! L. n. 48413 
Wight! cat. n. 460.—O, monadelpha, Roxb. in E. T. C. mus. t. 1433.—0. 
pusilla, Sa/isb.; Roxb. fl. Ind, p. 457 (kept distinet by error of the press). 
The Indian and Cape of Good Hope specimens have the peduncles longer 
than the leaves, the European ones shorter than them, but we can see no 
other difference. It differs from O. stricta, Sal. by the habit, and by the 
presence of stipules, which, however, in the warmer climates quickly shrivel 
up and disappear, unless the specimens be found in a shady situation. We 
cannot point out any distinguishing character between it and what we con- 
ceive to be O. repens, Thunb. 
