Bwphytum.] xxxii. geraniace^: (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) 437 



Throughout the hotter parts of Ihdia, ascending to 6000 ft. in the Himalaya, and 

 Ceylok. — ^DisTEiB. Tropical Asia, Africa, and America. 



Stems long or short, slender or robust, hispidly pubeBcent. Leaves 1^-5 in. ; petinle 

 hisjiidulous or merely oiliate ; leaflets very variable in size, ^-J in., sometimes arched 

 a little upwards, nearly equal at the base except the terminal one, which is obovate ami 

 oblique at the contracted base, nerves few or many rather obljque oftea waved. 

 PedarscZes very_ variable, 4-5 in., hispid, sometimes swollen at the tip; bracts rigid, 

 setaceous ; pedicels usually shorter than the sepals, sometimes equalling them • r a 

 little longer. Sepals rigid, subulate-lanceolate, grooved, glandular and hispid. Fetals 

 usually twice as long as the sepals, yellow (sometimes purple?). Cwpside elliptic, 

 shining ; cells few-seeded. Seeds very variable, minute, with transverse oblique acute 

 or obtuse ridges that are more or less bVoken up into tubercles. 



Vak. 1. CandoUeana; leaflets 10-15 pairs, more or less strigose or appressed pilose on 

 the upper surface, seeds both tubercled and grooved. B. CandoUeaaum, Wight III, i. 

 161, t. 62 ; Wall. Cat. 4343 D.— Western Peninsula, and Ceylon. 



Vae. 2. assdmica; leaves 3-7 in., leaflets 7-15 pairs glabrous, petiole and rachis 

 nearly glabrous, seeds turbinate smooth acutely furrowed, flowers yellow. Wall. Cat. 

 4343 Gr. — Assam. 



Yar. 3. nervifolia; leaflets about 12 pairs glabrous, nerves few strong and waved 

 beneath as^jn £. Apodisdas. B. nervifolium, Tkwaites Enum. 64. — Bengal, Ceylon. 

 Mr. Edgeworth, who has laboriously studied the Indian forms of this genus, distin- 

 guishes as species — 1, B. Candolleanum, described above ; 2, B. seshanioides, Edgew. 

 iDss (Wall. Cat. 4343 A), with ciliate downy nerved leaflets, and (judging from dried spe- 

 cimens) purple flowers; 3, B. Cwmingianwm, Turcz. in Bull. JMosc, with 6-15 pairs' of 

 glabrous leaflets, and 4, B. poterioides, Edgew. mss. (Wall. Cat. 4343 B) which is steiu- 

 less with 6-12 pairs of glabrous leaflets, strongly nerved beneath, purple petals and 

 shining not tubercled seeds with forked furrows. 



2. B. Apodisclas, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. xxxvL i. 599 (Aposcias hi/ 

 error) ; leaflets 5-7 pairs small shortly and reniformly obovoid widening 

 towards tie rounded tip, nerves beneath few strong horizontal waved, pedi- 

 cels sessile, seeds with scattered tubercles. Oxalis sessilis, Hamilton in 

 WaU. (Jot. 4344. O. Petersii, Klotzsch in Peters Mossamh. Eeis. Bot. t. 5. 



Benoal, at Monghir, Hamilton; Assam, Griffith; Khasia Mts., alt. 3-5000 ft., 

 J. D. H. & T. T. ; IMysoee and Caknatic, G. Tlioms. Herb. 



Annual. Stem 1-2 in., slender. Leaves 1-1 4 in., crowded ; leaflets rather coria- 

 ceous, pale, the lowest smallest orbicular-ovate, the middle ones truncate at the base, 

 the terminal with a contracted oblique base and much arched midrib ; petiole puberu- 

 lous. Flowers J in. long. Sepals exceeding the pedicels. — Probably only a state of 

 B. sensitivum, approaching var. nervifolium, but distinguished by the small size, arched 

 midrib of the leaflets, absence of peduncle, and simply tubersled seeds. 



3. S. adiantoldes, Wic/ht mss. ; leaflets 12-25 pairs linear-oblong tip 

 rounded very unequal at the base, midrib straight, peduncles slender, 

 pedidels equaUing the sepals. 



Tenasseeim, at Mergui, Griffith. 



A very distinct and large species ; stem, petiole, rachis and peduncles tomentose and 

 pilose. Leaflets fin. long, sides nearly straight, base obliquely truncate, lower edge 

 short, upper long, sometimes produced into an obscure lobe at the anterior margin. 

 Pedimcles slender, with a clubbed mass of bracts at the apex. Flowers imperfect. 



4. B. ReinwardtU, Walp. Rep. i. 476; leaflets 10-20 pairs, oblong tip 

 rounded equal at tiie base glabrous, midrib straight, nerves slender oblique, 

 peduncles slender, pedicels equalling or exceeding the small flowers, 

 capsule almost equalling the small sepals. O. sensitiva, Zucc. m Munch. 

 Denks. ix. 183, t. v. B. 0. Keinwardtii, Zucc. m Munch. Abltand. i. 274. 



