Oxalis.| OXALIDACEAE. 59, 
1. T. cistoides, L.—DC. Prod. I, 703. — A perennial trailing herb, 
pubescent. Stipules 2—3", linear. Leaves 2—3’ long, with generally 
8 pairs of oblong leaflets, 6—8“ long, somewhat obtuse, entire, with soft 
pale y e 
length of the petals, with capillary filaments and short ovoid anthers. 
Ovary surrounded by erect bristles. Style thick, elongate, with a clavate 
angular stigma. Cocci generally 5 or 6, almost woody, tuberculate and 
hairy, with 2 divergent lateral spines elit the middle, partitioned inter- 
nally into four 1-seeded compartments. — Gray, Gen. Ill. II, pl. 145. — 
nd, p. =e — Mrs. Sinclair, pl. 30. 
ong the seashore and i is lower plains here and there on all islands. Nat. n 
«Nohu», A widely distri sated plant of American origin. Found on most low coral- bolas 
of the northern Pacific (Midway Isld.). 
Orper XVIII. OXALIDACEAE. 
Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, convolute. Stamens 10, slightly united 
at the base. No glands. Styles 5, distinct or united. Stigmas capitate. 
Fruit a 5-celled capsule or berry, each cell with several seeds. ibryo 
straight; cotyledons plane; albumen thin. — Herbs, shrubs or small trees, 
with compound leaves, generally abounding in oxalic acid. 
1. OXALIS, L. 
Stamens all antheriferous. Ovary 5-lobed, 5- celled, each cell with one 
or several ovules. Styles distinct, dividing into 2 or more stigmatic 
branches. Capsule loculicidal, its valves remaining united with the short 
axis. Seeds crustaceous, with a loose fleshy coat or aril, which at length 
splits and turns back on the Thaphe. Albumen fleshy. — Herbs or 
rarely shrubs. Leaves radical or “cauline, stipulate, alternate, 3- or many- 
foliolate. Peduncles axillary or radical, bearing one flower or several in 
a cymose umbel. 
A large genus, belonging chiefly to S. America and S. Africa. 
i ‘ . 1. O. corniculata. 
Peduncles axillary; flowers yellow 
2. O. Martiana. 
Peduncles radical; flowers red 
71.0, corniculata, [.—DC. Prod. ri 692. —A reais much branching, 
es Csgerant the hispid branches from a few inches to a foot and 
more Stipules adnate to the petioles, these about 1’ long. Leaflets 
3, 0 Sel sessile, 3—4". Peduncles axillary, about the length of the 
petioles, bearing an umbel of 2—6 small yellow flowers on reflexed pedicels 
of 3—4”, Stamens nearly as long as the styles. Capsule columnar, 1/3! 
or more long, pubescent, many-see 
bh oe of carly Sebago agar but sorts everywhere in woods and waste places. 
weed in many parts of the globe 
