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Averrhoa.] GERANIACEZ. 295 
~ faseicled at top of stem or branches; leaflets opposite, oblique ; 
stipules minute or 0. Flowers small, umbellate on terminal 
peduncles, Sepals 5. Petals 5, hypogynous, contorted; disk 
without glands. Stamens 10, those of the outer series smaller, 
all fertile, free. Ovary 5-locular and 5-lobed; styles 5; stigmas 
terminal, 2-fid or notched ; ovules several in each loculus. Fruit 
a loculicidally dehiscent capsule with spreading persistent valves. 
Seeds with an elastically opening outer coat and a crustaceous 
testa; albumen fleshy ; embryo straight. 
Sepals exceeding the capsules; pedicels not as long as the flowers :— 
Leaflets in 10-14 pairs; pedicels distinct; seeds with transverse 
tubercled ae sitivum 
Leaflets in 5~7 ice: pedicels very short or 0; seeds sinply ‘bere 
Sepals not exceeding the capsules ; pedicels as long as ret or lean? : 
leaflets 10-20 pairs; seeds spirally furrowed ......sseseereeeeess Reinwaratii. 
263. Biopayrum SENSITIVUM DC.; F. B. I. i. 486. Ozxalis 
sensitiva F. 4 
Very common poetics on roadsides and in cultivated 
A small herb with a spreading crown of sensitive leaves. 
Hind, Lak-chan 
264. Bropuyrum apoprscras Turez.; ; F. B. I. i. 487. 
Behar, Mongh 
A herb very like, but rather smaller than, pe preceding. 
265. Bropnyrum RemnwaRpTi Walp.; F.B. Ti 
Chota Nagpur, common; Behar; N. ee "Chitagong 
Very similar to B. sensitivum. 
130. Averrhoa Linn. 
t ves panne compound, odd-pinnate, leaflets sub- 
opposite islet Flowers small, regular, in panicled cymes 
in leaf. axils or on “ Tbh pa sez 5. Petals 5, contorted disk 
a8 capitate ; es ach cell numerous. Fruit 
ng, S-lobed, fleshy, ape io Seeds with or without an 
sailing; albumen fleshy but scanty ; embryo straight. 
Fruits sharply angled; seeds arillate ..........::+:0se++9* david Carambola. 
‘one bluntly angled; seeds without arillus sss:s-+.--sesesreseneeren* Bilimbi. 
