330 XXIX. oxALiDACEiE, [Oxalis. 



free. Fruit capsular 3- to 5-lobed or a berry. Species about 

 300, whole world. 



Herbaceous or stem slightly woody. 

 Leaves trifoliate . . . . . . .1. Oxalis 



Leaves pinnate, many leaflets . . . .2. Biophytum 



Trees. 

 Fruits baccate . . . . . . .3- Averrhoa 



Fruits drupaceous . . . . . •4- Connaropsis 



Climber. 

 Fruits dehiscent . . . . . . • 5- Dapania 



1. OXALIS, Linn. 



Herbs (rarely shrubs). Leaves radical or alternate usually 

 trifoliate. Flowers regular, on axillary peduncles. Sepals 5, 

 imbricate. Petals 5 contort; glands of disc none. Stamens 10 

 all similar. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled; styles 5 free; ovules i or 

 more in each cell. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally, valves persistent. 

 Seeds numerous small. Species 200, chiefly American. 



Creeping herb ; flowers small yellow . . . • (i) 0. COmiculata 



Bulbous plant ; flowers large pink . . . . (2) 0. corymbosa 



Erect branched plant ; flowers small , . . • (3) 0. Barrelieri 



(i) O. corniculata L. var. villosa Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 436; King, 

 I.e. 198. 



A little creeping hairy herb with trifohate leaves; leaflets 

 obcordate -2 in. long and wide, hairy; petioles i to 1-5 in. long. 

 Sepals obtuse. Petals obcordate. Capsule cylindric tomentose 

 many-seeded -5 in. long. Hah. In waste ground by houses. Singa- 

 pore. Garden weed. Malacca, Residency. Perak. Penang 

 Residency. Disirib. Whole world. The pubescent form from 

 India and Java. 



(2) O. corymbosa DC. Prod. i. 696. 



A plant with a mass of small tubers and rather large trilobed 

 leaves, the lobes round retuse, i"5 in. wide; petioles 4*5 in. long, 

 all pubescent. Peduncle hairy 4 to 5 in. tall with an umbel of 

 pink showy flowers i in. across. Introduced as an ornamental 

 plant, has run wild on Penang Hill, as it has in many parts of the 

 world; said to be of Mascarene origin. 



(3) O. Barrelieri Linn. Sp. PL ed. ii. 624. 



An erect often branched slender pubescent herb about 12 in. 

 tall, with small pink and yellow flowers. Occurs as a weed in the 

 Botanic Gardens. Native of West Indies and South America. 

 It occurs also in Java. 



2. BIOPHYTUM, DC. 



Herbs simple or branched with a tuft of pinnate leaves at the 

 top of the half- woody stem. Leaflets opposite oblique oblong 

 truncate. Peduncles terminal with an umbel of small white, pink 



