SPECIES OF OXALIS NOW WILD IN INDIA. 
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glabrous but appearing spotted with black elongate markings as in 
sepals, 5-celled ; cells many-ovuled ; styles 5, one from the apex of each 
lobe of the ovary, very short, reflexed, minutely hairy; stigmas 5, 
laciniform. 
In his a Monographie der Gattung Oxalis/^ published in Vienna in 
1794, Jacquin established this species from a collection from Souili 
Africa where the plant is indigenous. Ecklon and Zevher had it 
published from the same region at a later date (1835) as 0. breviscapa 
Jacq. and it figures in all subsequent Cape lists and Floras. Of the 
two known forms the Ecklon Zeyher plant seems to have been the white 
variety. It was brought to British gardens about the time of its disco- 
very and is now fairly w^ell known as a garden introduction in Europe. 
The plant needs protection, but both this and the white variety appear 
to flourish in the open at La Mortola, Italy. Apart from the present 
records in India the only other references to the plant on the road to 
naturalisation outside Africa come from Australasia. It is given in the 
Auckland flora as an escape from gardens and Ewart in his Alien 
Plants of Victoria 39 (1909) says it was first taken noW of as naturalised 
in this part of the world in the Journ. of Pharmacy (1887). He gives 
it as widely spread but not plentiful. Its establishment in India is 
therefore of special interest. As a garden plant it has been known here 
for over 60 years. Voigt gives it in his “ Hortus Suburbanus Cal- 
cuttensis ” in 1845, but the records from the Niighiri and Pulney Gills, 
Bourne No. 6115 and Sauliere No. 1165, show that this species, given 
waste land no longer requires garden protection. 
Plate III. — 1 and 2, plant nat. size ; 3, flower minus corolla, nat. size ; 
4, calyx, nat. size; 5, corolla, nat .size; 6, andrcecium, nat. size; 
7, stamens x 7 ; 8, gynseceum x 10 ; 9, gynseceum, nat. size. 
4. Oxalis Pes-caprae Linn. Sp. PI. 434. 
Oxalis abjssinica Turcz. in Bull. Nat. Mosc. xxxi, (185S) i, 432. 
Oxalis antkehnintica A. Rich. Tent. El. Abyss, i, 124, 
Oxalis biflora Burm. f. El. Cap. Prod. 13. 
Oxalis caprina Thunb. Diss. Oxal. 13; Prod. FI. Cap. 82. 
Oxalis cernua Thunb. Diss. Oxal. 14. 
Oxalis dentata Eckl. & Zeyh, Enum. 82. 
Oxalis erecta Savign. in Lam. Encyc. iv, 685. 
Oxalis macropliylla Hornem, Hart. Hafn. i, 428. 
A small herb with an obconical rootstock, 16-20 cm. hi<rh and 
with 20-25 leaves all rising directly from the bulbous rootstock ; petioles 
slender, terete, glabrous, 6-10 cm. long. Leaves trifoliolate, with 
