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NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. 



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

 parous cymes, similar to umljels, like those of tlie Geraniums.^ 



HypseocJiaris pimpinellifoUa,^ a 

 oxdus Andrieuxii. small perennial herb of the Bolivian 



Andes, is to Oxalis what Monsoma 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 oppositipetalous multi- 

 ovulate cells. The leaves of this 

 plant are alternate and imparipui- 

 nate. The flowers * are in scorpoid 

 cymes at the summit of a common 

 stem. 



Caramlola has the flower of 

 Oxalis. In one of the two species 

 known, Averrhoa Bilimbi,^ the ten 

 ■ stamens are fertile and five only 

 among them alternipetalous ia the 

 true species of Caramlola.^ 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 Connaropsis^ is made, and which when 

 better known will doubtless be rejoined to the genus AverrJioa. 



Fig. 68. Habit. 



1 Several species have two sorts of flowers : 

 those with no corolla or one hut 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 

 jldansonia^ vii. 97.) 



2 Eemy, in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 238. 

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

 Qen. 276, n. 14. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, x. 362. 



' White with- yellow claw. 



■• Averrhoa L. Gen. 677. — J. Gen. 375. — 

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

 — CoKK. in Ann. Mus. viii. 71, t. 2. — DC. Frodr. 

 i, 689. — Spach, Suit d, Buffon, iii. 234.— Endl. 



Oen. n. 6059.— B. H. Qeti. 277, n. 16.— H. Bn. 

 in Payer Fam. Nat. 399. 



« L. Spec. 613.— Cav. Diss. t. IIO.—Blim- 

 bingum teres Eumph. Serb. Amboin. i. 119. t. 

 36. — BucH. 2)eo. iii. t. 6. — Maltis indica frmtu 

 5-gono Bilimbi dicto (Rat, Bist. 1449). 



^ A. Caramlola L. loo. eit. — Cav. Diss. t. 

 220. — Prunum stellatum EuMPH. Serb. Amboin, 

 i. 118, t. 35.— BucH. Dec. x. t. 3,—Malus indica 

 fruetu acidofiavo S-gono sulcato (Hekm.). 



' Pl. ex Hook. p. in Frans. lAnn. Sbc. xxiii. 

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

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



