Oxalis 



OXALIDACEiE 



157 



or glabrate. Pedicels '7-1 '5 cm. 1. Bracteoles at base of pedicels, 2-4 

 mm. 1., linear-lanceolate. Sepals 2-4 mm. 1., hairy. Petals 4-9 mm. 1. 

 Filaments glabrous. Capsule 9-17 mm. 1., linear-oblong, puberulous- 

 velveby, abruptly narrowed at the apex. Seeds transversely ridged, 

 1-3 mm. 1., reddish-brown. 



2. 0. eopymbosa" BC. Prodr. i. 696 (1824); stemless, leaves 

 and peduncles springing from a compound bulb ; flowers rosy, 

 corymbose or umbellate. — Bak^ Fl. . Maur. 37'. O, Martiana 



Fig. 49. — Oxalis corymbosa DC. 



A,' Portion of inflorescence X %. D, Stamens and pistil X 6. 



B, Leaf X |. . 



0. Acetosella L. 



C, Diagram of flower. F, Seed with aril, mucli enlarged. 



E, Ripe fruit, much enlarged. G, Seed cut lengthwise, much enlarged. 



(C, E-G, after Baillon.) 



Zucc. in Denkschr. Akad. Muench. ix. 144 (1825); Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3938 ; Griseb. loc. cit. ; Prog. torn. cit. 486. O. bipunctata 

 B. Grah. in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. (Apr. -June 1827) 176 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 2781 ; Macf. Jam. i. 113. (Fig. 49 A, b, d.) 



Kingston ; Bog Walk ; Hitchcock ; near Castleton ; Hope grounds ; 

 Harris] M. Jam. 6870, 12,334.— St. Vincent, Central America, tropical 

 and subtropical S. America, introduced into many places in the Old 

 World. 



Stemless crown from which 20 or more leaves and several scapes arise, 

 surrounded by numerous bulbils. Leaflets broadly obcordate, more or 

 less pubescent and ciliate, glandular-dotted beneath, 1-5-3 cm. br. ; 

 petioles 1-2 dm. 1. and more ; stipules represented by expansions of the 



