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chumbulen^ie, Munro in Wight Fc. t. 1074; Monsonia lawiana, 

 Stocks MS. ; Geranium lawianum, Graham's Catalogue. 



XLI. OXALIDE^. 



1. OXALIS, Linn. 



1. CoHNicuLATA, Linn.— A weed, the pest of gardens, stems 

 decumbent, rooting ; leaves palraately trifoliolate ; leaflets obcbrdate, 

 pubescent ; peduncles 2 to 5-flowered ; capsule linear oblong, 

 many-seeded, densely pubescent. Syn. O pusilla, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 

 457 ; O repens, Thunb. Wight Ic. t. 18. 



2. BIOPHYTUM, DC. 



1. B Sensitivum, DC. Prod. 1, 690. — A small plant with a 

 short stem ; leaves umbellate at its apex, abruptly pinnated ; leaflets 

 10 to 14 pair, obliquely obovate or oblong; peduncles from among 

 the leaves, several together, pubescent ; flowers numerous, um- 

 bellate, yellow. Common in the Concan during the rains. Rhsed. 

 Mai. ix, t. 19 ; Bot Reg. xviii, t. 68. 



XLU. BALSAMINE^. 

 1. IMPATIENS, Linn. 



1. I AcAULis, Arnott in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i, 325. — 

 Smooth leaves, orbicular or oblong, -rounded or cordate at the 

 base, bracts ovate acute ; pedicels elongated ; sepals small, ovate 

 obtuse, spur very slender, elongated. Syn. I scapiflora, Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3587. The Ghauts. 



2. I RiVALis, Wight Contr. Ind. Bot. i, 13, t. 8. — ^Herbaceous; 

 root tuberous; all the leaves radical ovate oblongs rather oblique at 

 the base, remotely bristle-serrated, hairy above, pale beneath ; scape 

 racemed, many-flowered ; flowers pedicelled, large, upper sepal 

 obtuse gibbous, hiding the column of fructification, lateral minute, 

 lower ovate, attenuated into a slender spur, double the length of the 

 petals; seeds hispid. The Ghauts; flowers in July and August. 

 Supposed to be only a variety of the preceding. 



3. I Stocksii, Hook. Fl. and Thorns. — Small, quite smooth ; 

 leaves broadly ovate, membranaceous; bracts ovate acute; sepals 

 broadly ovate obtuse, lip saccate at the base, spur none, wings 

 3-lobed ; leaves only 1 inch long. The Southern Ghauts. Jour. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. iv, p 1 19. 



4. I Chinensis, Linn. sp. PL— Glabrous ; stem erect, angled; 

 leaves subsessile linear acute, opposite, remotely serrated, glaucous 



