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but still there appears no tendency to transformation. | 
tly form 
456 OXALIDEA: 
OxaLis. . 
Ozalis, Pl. DXL Fig. II. 
In the common Oxalis of Assam, curious transformations 
often occur, giving the whole plant, the habit of an Illecebrum 
or Paronychia. 
Several stages are visible on the same specimen, the’ first 
of which consists of a metamorphosis of the sepals into per 
reduced to one lobe or leaflet. 
In this case they originate from the same plane. The lali 
have a tendency to the same transformation, one being more 
so than the rest. The stamens and carpellary leaves are nearly 
unchanged, and these last are opposite the shorter stamina 
which m are opposed to the leaves. 
< DXL. Fig. II. 1-2-3. In these instances Similar 
shai ad are often approximated to those resulting from 
the mutation of the sepals, so that at first sight the calyx 
appears double, I should observe that in the cam piis 
there is often a tendency to lobation. - 
In the next stage the whole or the greater number " 
petals are similarly changed, the leaves being bilobed. The sta- 
mina are diminished in size, but their proportions continue 
the same. The angles of the ovary are more distinct, and 
the apices of the carpellary leaves are quite so, they are 
sterile, their margins distinct not glandular. and touching 
the continuation of the axis which is separate: see 4-5-6. 
In the next stage, the Stamens are more and more Shots 
carpellary leaves have become separated and eviden 
a verticillus of leaves attached to a short continuation of the 
axis, their margins are inflexed, or indeed their limbs are 
conduplicate, their margins are not ovuliferous. The centre 
leaves, alternating with the carpellary oi ones, : i a9 
white hairs, These appear to me to be the rudiments of à 
second TR prune the rudiments of at 
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