NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



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

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



HijpHeochark pimphiellifoliaj" a 

 small perennial herb of the Bolivian 

 Andes, is to Oxalis wliat 3Ionsonia 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 audroceum. 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, Averrlioa Bilimhi,^ the ten 

 stamens are fertile and five only 

 among them alternipetalous in the 

 true species of CaramholaJ' 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 ConnarfqnW is made, and which when 

 better known will doubtless be rejoined to the genus Averrlioa. 



Fig. 68. Habit. 



' Several species have two sorts of flowers : 

 those with no corolla or one but little developed 

 being late, slow, and producing fruit rather than 

 those whose petals are well developed and which 

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

 Jliiaiisoiiia, vi). 97.) 



= Remy, in Ann. &. Nat. sér. 3, viii. 238. 

 — Wedd. Chhr. andin. ii. 289, t. 81.— B. H. 

 Gen. 276, n. 14.— H. Bn. in Adaiisoiiin, x. 362. 



' White with yellow claw. 



■• Averrhoa L. Gen. 517.— J. Gni. 375.— 

 Lamk. Diet. i. 619 ; Suppl. ii. 90 ; III. t. 38,5. 

 — CoRR. in Ann. Mii.s. viii. 71, t. 2. — DC. Prodi: 

 i, 689.— Spach, Suit à Buffo», iii. 234.— Endl. 



Gen. n. G059.— B. H. Gen. 277, n. 16.— H. Bn. 

 in Pai/cr Fan. Nat. 399. 



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

 bingum <«Y5 EuMl'H. Herb. Amboin. i. 119. t. 

 36. — BucH. Dec. iii. t. 6.- — Mains indiea fructu 

 b-(jùno Billmhi dicto (Ray, Hist. 1449). 



" A. Carambola L. loc. oï.— Cav. Diss. t. 

 220. — Prunnni stellatnm Rumph. Herb. Amboin, 

 i. 118, t. 3.5. — BucH. Dec. x. t. 3, — Malus indiea 

 fructu acido Jiavo h~gono sulcata (Herm.). 



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

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

 sonia, X. 361,— W ALP. Ann. vii, 502 (3 osp.). 



