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RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA , 
Oxalis microwhylla A. Cunn. ex. Hook. f. Haiidb. New. Zeal. FI. 83. 
Ox alls microphjlla Poir. Encyc. Suppl. iv, 248. 
Oxalis minima Steud. Nora. ed. I, 579. 
Oxalis monadelpha Roxb. ex. Wight & Arn, Prod. 142. 
Oxalis perennans Haw. Misc. 181. 
Oxalis pilosa Nutt. ex. Torr. & Gray. FI. N. Am. i, 212. 
Oxalis pilosiuscul a H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. et. Sp. v, 243. 
Oxalis Preissiana Stend. in Lehm. PL Preiss. i, 160. 
Oxalis procumbent Steud. ex. A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, i, 123. 
Oxalis propinqua A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. I. iii (1839), 316. 
Oxalis prostrata Haw. Misc. 183. 
Oxalis pubescens Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. ii, 558. 
Oxalis pumila Nutt. ex. Torr. & Gray. FI. N. Am. i, 212. 
Oxalis pusilla Salisb. Prod. 322. 
Oxalis radicosa A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, i, 123. 
Oxalis recurva Ell. Sketch, i. 526. 
Oxalis rspcns Thunb. Diss. Oxal. 16; Prod. FI. Cap. 82. 
Oxalis Bichardiana Steud. Nom. ed. II, ii, 241. 
Oxalis rubens Haw. Misc. 182. 
Oxalis slricta Linn. Sp. PI. 435. 
Oxalis tenuicaulis A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 1^ iii (1889), 316. 
Oxalis tropceoloides Hort. ex. Vilm. FI. PI. Terre, ed. I, 584. 
Oxalis Urvillei A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. I, ii (1839), 315. 
Oxalis villosa Bieb. FI. Taur. Cauc. i, 355. 
A small procumbent trailing or more or less erect herb, variable in 
size, 6-25 cm. high, annual or perennial. Roots fibrous. Stems root- 
ing at the nodes, pubescent with adpressed hairs. Leaves few, palmately 
3-foliolate ; petioles 3*5-9 cm. long, very slender, pubescent; leaflets 
7 mm. long, 1 cm. broad, subsessile, entire, roundly obovate, base cuneate, 
apex emarginate, margins ciliate, otherwise glabrous except in young 
state. Stipules 2, small, oblong, adnate to base of petiole. Flowers 
axillary, subumbellate, two or more to the peduncle ; peduncle solitary, 
elongated, 9 cm. long, more or less pubescent, de flexed in fruit, with 
lanceolate hairy bracts below the pedicels; pedicels *4-1 cm. long, 
pubescent. Sepals 3-5 mm. long, obtuse, persistent, adpressed pubes- 
cence on anterior surface, posterior glabrous. Petals 5, yellow, oblong, 
rounded at the apex, emarginate, about twice the length of the sepals. 
Stamens 10, united, longer 5 mm. long, shorter 4 mm. long; anthers 
dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2*5 cm. long, linear oblong, sulcate, 
5-lobed, 5-locular, short beaked and slightly tomentose. Seeds nume- 
rous in each loculus, fixed to the central axis, somewhat pendulous, 
broadly ovoid, transversely striate, dark brown. 
