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RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA . 
Artificial Key to the species now wild in India. 
A. Pedunoles 1-flowered. 
Buibless, rootless creeping. Petals white. 
Stipules large ; leaflets broadly obcor- 
date, outlines roundish . „ 
Stipules srnalj ; leaflets distinctly trian- 
gular, outlines straight 
Bulb solitary, black. Petals red . 
B. Peduncles two — many-flowered. 
c 
Petals yellow or orange, 
Stemless ; leaves all radical, rising 
from the rootstock 
Stems usually creeping, rarely erect; 
leaves rising from the nodes. 
(1) 0. Acetosella 
(2) O. Griffitbii 
(3) 0. variabilis 
VAR. rubra 
(4) 0. Pes-caprse 
Flowers in simple umbels . . . (5) O. cornicnlata 
Flowers in broad umbelliform falsely- 
racemose branches . . . (6) O. pubescens 
Petals blueish-purple or purple-violet. 
Leaflets four (7) O. tetraphylla - 
Leaflets three, broadly and distinctly 
triangular . . . ' . (8) 0. latifolL 
Leaflets three, obcordate, roundish at 
the sides . . ® . . (9) 0. corymbosa 
Descriptions and History, 
1, Oxalis Acetosella Linn. Sp. Plant, 433, 
Oxalis alba Steud. Nom. ed. I. 578 ; ed. II. ii, 238. 
Oxalis americana Bigeb ex DC. Prod, i, 700. 
Oxalis montana R afin. in Am. Monthly Mag. (1818), 266; Ann. 
Nat. 12. 
Oxalis nemoralis Salisb. Prod. 321. 
Oxalis parviflora Lej. FI. Spa. ii, 307. 
Oxalis vulgaris S. F. Gray. Nat. Arr. Brit. PL ii, 630. 
A small delicate perennial herb 5-15 cm. high, stemless but with a 
longer or shorter horizontally creeping reddish knotty scaly rhizome. 
Leaves radical, numerous, stipulate, trifoliolate with elongated 5-15 cm. 
long petioles ; petioles somewhat thickened and often purple at bi.se, 
higher up light-green and grooved ; leaflets broadly obcordate, light-green 
with frequently a tinge of purple beneath, hairy and showing marked 
nycty tropic movement ; stipules large, broad and membranous. Flowers 
solitary. 1-1*8 cm. in diam., on elongated slender peduncles ; pedunoles 
