294 BENGAL PLANTS. 
127. Geranium Linn. : 
Herbs or undershrubs; leaves opposite or alternate, ps n i 
nerved; stipules 2. Flowers regular, on axillary bractale 
flowered or umbellate peduncles. Sepals 5. Petals 5, hypogy 
imbricate, alternating with 5 glands. Stamens 10, all f 
ary 5-locular and 5-lobed, beaked; styles 5, stigmas 
tudinal; ovules 2 superposed in each loculus. Frwit a 5- 
5-celled capsule, with a solitary seed in each cell; carpels 
ventrally splitting and often separating septifragally pres the 3 
their beaks coiling elastically upw ards. Se eds with | 
- Geranrum ocettatum Camb.; F. B. I.i. 483; E. D.@ 
Behar, Parasnath. 
A small straggling herb; flowers rose-coloured 
purple eye. Hind. Bhinda 
128. Oxalis Linn. 
Herbs, rarely undershrubs, with acid juice; leaves” 
alternate, ternately digitate, often subsensitive; stipules ry 
Flowers regular, on axillary 1- or more-flowered peda 
5. Petals 5, hypogynous , contorted ; disk without glands. | 
10, all fertile, free or slightly connate at the bi Ke 
locular and 5-lobed ; edn! “ stigmas ante Pie ba 
XALIS CORNICULATA Linn.; F, I. ii. 457; F. B, Li 
E. D. 0. 547. 0. pusilla F. I. ii. 457. 
Common everywhere by roadsides and, especially, : 
tivated ground. 
A small “shamrock” with yellow flowers. 
Ambéti, iuivoat, Beng. Amrul, chuka-tripati; ° 
Tandi chatom ‘rake’: 
129, Biophytum DC. 
Annual or sometimes perennial herbs or undershrubs; 
‘time 
or branched ; leaves usually sensitive, compound, ev 
