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(1) B. sewsrrivum. (Dec. ) 
Ident. Dee. prod. I. p. 690. 
Syn. Oxalis sensitiva, Linn. W. §. A. prod. I. p. 142.—Roxb. 
ft. Ind. V1. p. 457. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. 1X. t. 19.—Rumph. Amb. V. t. 104, 
f. 2.—Wight’s Icon, t, 18. - 
Srec. Cag. Stem scarcely any: leaves umbellate: leaflets 
10-14 pair, obliquely obovate or oblong: peduncles from among 
-the leaves, several together, pubescent: pedicels bracteated at the 
base: cells of the ovary about 4-ovuled: flowers numerous, um- 
bellate, yellow. 
Peninsula. Concans, flowering in the rainy season. 
GENUS II. OXALIS. 
Decandria Pentagynia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Oxys, acid. The leaves have an acid taste. 
Gey. Cuar. Caulescent, stipitate or stemless herbs: leaves 
puny 1-8-foliolate or palmately 3-13-foliolate, rarely bifolio« 
ate: peduncles 1-2 or many-flowered: sepals 5, free or combined 
.at the base: petals 5: filaments connected at the base, 5 altery< 
ate ones shorter: styles 5: capsules pentagonal. 
(1), O. corntouzata. (Linn.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p, 142.—Deec. prod. I. p. 692.— 
Roxb. 6. Ind. II. p. 457. 
Syn. O. pusilla, Salisd. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 18. 
Spec. Cuar. Stems decumbent, rooting: leaves palmately 3+ 
foliolate: leaflets obcordate, pubescent: peduncles 2—5-flowered : 
sepals pubescent: capsule many-seeded, densely pubescent: flow- 
ers yellow. 
Common throughout the country, flowering nearly all the year, 
GENUS III. HUGONIA. 
Monadelphia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. In honor of John Hugon, an English Botanist. 
Gun. Cuan. Calyx without an involucel, persistent: sepals 
5, distinct, unequal, the two exterior lanceolate, densely pubescent on 
the back,-imbricated in zstivation: petals 5, unguiculate, hypogy- 
nous, alternate with the sepals, twisted in estivation: stamens 
hypogynous: anthers erect, 2-celled: ovary 5-celled, glabrous, 
with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell: styles 5, distinct; stigmas 
