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RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
Plate II. — 1, plant nat. size ; 2, calyx x 13 ; 3, corolla x 15 ; 
androecium x 15 ; 5, gynceceum x 10. 
3. Oxalis variabilis Jacq. Oxal. 89. 
Oxalis hreviscapa Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. 9]. 
Oxalis grandiflora Jacq. Oxal. 91, t. 54. 
Oxalis inscripta E. Mey. in Drege Zvvei Pfl. Docum. 103 nomen. 
Oxalis laxulpi Jacq. Oxal. 94, t. 57. 
Oxalis reptutrix Jacq. Oxal. 54*. 
Oxalis rigidula Jacq. Oxal. 96. 
Oxalis speciosa Jacq. Oxal. 97, t. 60. 
Oxalis suggillata Jacq. Oxal. 98, t. 61. 
A small bulbous herb almost stemless, 6-8 cm. high with generally 
8-12 long-petioled leaves and 2-3 solitary large purple flowers on longer 
scapes, all rising more or less from above tho bulb. Hoots many, 
filiform. Bulb small, globose but acute at both ends, 1*4 cm. long, 
9 mm. in diameter, dull black, shining ; scales few. Petioles slender, 
widened at the base and sheathing, 3-8 cm. long, with sparsely scattered 
shining hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate, with inconspicuously pulvinate 
leaflets ; medial leaflet larger than the lateral two, cuneate at the base, 
subrotund, 1*2 cm. long, 1*4 cm. broad at the broadest part, emarginate 
faintly, membranous, punctate with dark glands, ciliate on the margin 
and sparsely hairy on the nerves on the under surface; secondary nerves 
obscure, 4-6 pairs, very oblique ; lateral leaflets unequal-sided, also 
subrotund, not emarginate, ’8 cm. long, 1 cm. broad at the broadest 
part, otherwise exactly like the medial. Scapes 2, slightly longer than 
the petioles, 4 cm. long, almost glabrous, with two small subulate 
bracteoles below the middle; bracteoles 2 mm. long, laxly hairy. 
Flowers solitary, large, 2“ 5-3 cm. long, about 2 cm. in diameter. 
Sepals 5, lanceolate, unequal (two being slightly larger than the rest) 
4-6 mm. long, 1*2-1 *5 mm. broad, acute, pilose on the upper surface, 
with elongate dark spots arranged longitudinally. Petals 5, cohering 
almost to a third of their length into a wide funnel-shaped tube with 
very short free claws, the upper half purple, the lower very faintly so, 
covered when in bud with dense shining hairs, less so when open, 2*4-2*9 
cm. long. Stamens 10, united at base into a cup; filaments considerably 
flattened, membranous, alternately longer and shorter ; longer filaments 5, 
8 mm. long, glabrous, with dorsal scale ; shorter filaments 5, 4-5 mm. 
long anthers glabrous oblong, 2-celled, introrse. Ovary elongate, 
distinctly 5-lobed, 3 mm. long, narrowed slightly at the apex, quite 
