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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Oxalh Andvreuxii, 



or united at the summit of a common stem in one or several uni- 

 parous cymes, similar to umbels, like those of the Geraniums.^ 



Hijpseoclmrh jjinipincUifoUa," a 

 small perennial herb of the Bolivian 

 Ancles, is to Oxalis what Monsonia is 

 to the Geraniums, the flowers^ having 

 fifteen stamens instead often. Eather 

 small and not numerous glands are 



placed on a level with the insertion 

 of the petals and androceum. The 

 ovary has five oppositipetaloiis multi- 

 ovulate cells. The leaves of this 

 plant are alternate and imparipin- 

 nate. The flowers * are in scorpoid 

 cymes at the summit of a common 

 stem. 



Caramhola has the flower of 

 Oxalis. In one of the two species 

 known, Averrhoa Bih'mlj/',^ the ten 

 stamens are fertile and five only 

 among them alternipetalous in the 

 true species of Caramhola.^ These 

 are Asiatic trees, with pinnate leaves, and the fruit is a pentagonal 

 berry. The fruit is also fleshy although small in the trees from tro- 

 pical Asia of which the genus Coimampsis' is made, and which when 

 better known will doubtless be rejoined to the genus Averrhoa. 



Fig. 68. Habit. 



1 Several species have two sorts of flowers : 

 those with no corolla or one hut little developed 

 hoing late, slow, and producing fruit rather than 

 those whose petals are well developed and which 

 are sometimes quite sterUe. (See H. Bn. in 

 ylrlaiixniila, vii. 97.) 



- Remy, in AiiH. Se. XaL ser. 3, viii. 238. 

 — Wedd. C/iloi: aiidhi. ii. 289, t. 81.— B. H. 

 Oe:i. 27G, n. 14.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, x. 362. 



^ White with yellow claw. 



•• Averrhoa L. Gni. 577.— J. Oni. 375.— 

 Lamk. Diet. i. 619 ; Suppl. ii. 90 ; III. t. 385. 

 — CouR. in Ann. Miis. \'iii. 71, t. 2. — DC. Prodr. 

 i. 689.— Si'ACH, Suit d, liiifiM, iii. 234.— Endl. 



Oen. n. 6059.— B. H. Oc/i. 277, n. 16.— H. B.v. 

 in Pai/cr Fam. Nat. 399. 



5 L. Spec. 613.— Cav. Diss. t. 220.— Slhi- 

 biiigmn teres Eumph. Serb. Amloiti. i. 1 19. t. 

 36. — Buck. Dec. iii. t. 6. — Mains iiidica friictn 

 b'gono Bilimbi dicto (Ray, Hist. 1449). 



* A. Carambola L. he. cit. — Cav. Diss. t. 

 220. — Pruiiiiin stellatnm RuMm. Kerb. Amboiii, 

 i. 118, t. 35.— Buck. Dec. x. t. i,—il.ihis iiidica 

 fructu aeidojfavo 5-ffouo sithato (Herm.). 



' Pl. ex Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Sue. xxiii. 

 166.— B. H. Gen. 277, n. 17.— H. Bn. in Adan- 

 sonia, X. 361. — Walp. Ann. vii. 502 (3 esp.). 



