OXALIDACEAE. 



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1. lonoxalis Martiana (Zucc.) 

 J. K. Small. Martius ' Purple 

 Wood-sorrel. (Fig. 217.) Scapes 

 villous, 1° high or less, as long as the 

 leaves or longer; bulb-scales 3-ribbed. 

 Leaflets 3, broadly obovate-obcordate, 

 l'-2V broad, broadly cuneate at the 

 ses'sile base, somewhat pubescent, their 

 lobes rounded, the petioles loosely 

 villous ; cymes several-many-flowered, 

 compound; pedicels V-^¥ long; sepals 

 3" long or less; petals violet to rose- 

 purple, 6"-8" long; longer filaments 

 pubescent, the shorter mostly gla- 

 brous. 



A pernicious weed in cultivated 

 grounds, difficult to eradicate. Natural- 

 ized. Native of Brazil. Naturalized in 

 the southern United States and in the 

 West Indies. Flowers from autumn to 

 spring. [Oxalis riohicea of Lefroy and 

 of Reade ; Oxalis Martiana Zuccl known 

 locally as Sour-sop, as is the following 

 species. 



2. lonoxalis intermedia (A. 

 Eich.) J. K. Small. Cuban Purple 

 Wood-sorrel. (Fig. 218.) Scapes 

 1° high or less, glabrous or pubescent, 

 as long as the leaves or longer ; bulb- 

 scales several-ribbed. Leaflets 3, 

 much broader than long, sessile, their 

 lobes ovate, obtuse, glabrous above, 

 more or less pubescent beneath, the 

 petioles sparingly pubescent; cymes 

 simple, 5-12-flowered; pedicels gla- 

 brous, 5"-10" long, very slender; 

 sepals ovate, 2"-3" long; petals 

 violet, 5'-7" long; longer filaments 

 very pubescent, the shorter ones 

 slightly so. [Oxalis intermedia A. 

 Eichard.] 



Superabundal as a weed in fields 

 between Castle Harbor and Harrington 

 Sound, 1012. Native of Cuba. Natural- 

 ized in the Bahamas. St. rroix, Guade- 

 hipe and Martinique. Flowers from 

 autumn to spring. 



3. XANTHOXALIS J. K. Small. 

 Annual or perennial caulescent herbs, with rootstocks. Leaves alternate; 

 stipules obsolete; blades palmately 3-foliolate; leaflets broadly obcordate, nearly 

 sessile. Flowers perfect, heterogonous or homogenous. Sepals 5, narrow, imbri- 

 cated. Corolla yellow, sometimes with a darker eye. Petals 5, surpassing the 

 sepals, rounded or notched at the apex. Stamens 10 ; filaments glabrous or the 

 longer ciliate. Capsule more or less elongated, columnar or narrowed upward, 

 angled, 5-celled. Seeds several in each cavity, transversely ridged or tuberculate 



