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RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 
With the exception of the mention by Keiche in bis Flora de Chile of 
Ojcalis Cummingii Herb, a synonym, the species does not figure in other 
South American lists. It is therefore native of the Andes and Chile and 
would appear to be limited to these areas in the American continent. It 
was introduced to European gardens about 1832 and is probably still 
found with certain Oxalis fanciers though it is not a common garden 
plant. The species does not figure in the list-and floras of indigenous 
plants of any of the continents beyond America. Its non-occurrence 
cannot, however, be accepted without some reserve. The species is only 
with difficulty distinguished from the worldwide 0 . corniculata and 
considering the ease with which many species of the genus have 
succeeded after emigration it may have on occasion been passed as this 
species. When first the specimen which justifies this note was examined 
it was reported as Oxalis corniculata var ? and indeed subsequent examin- 
ation at Kew still leaves some doubt as to its identity. We base its 
inclusion among Indian immigrants on the record of Prof. Fvson of 
Madras who found the plant in the Pulneys. He says he has no doubt 
that his Nos. 2028, 3327 and 3336 and Lady Bourne's 5351 are all 
0. pubescens and that the species varies with situation. It figures for the 
first time as an Indian plant in his Flora of the Nilghiri and Pulney Hill 
tops (p. 56) where it is mentioned as a garden escape. 
Plate YI. — 1, plant, nat. size; 2, flower x 12; 3, calyx an*d 
gynseceum X 15; 4, corolla x 40; 5, androecium and gynseceum X 10; 
6, andnecium X 40 ; 7, gynseceum x 20 ; 8, style and stigma X 50. 
7. Oxalis tetraphylla Cav. Ic. iii, 19, (1794). 
Oxalis Deppei Schlecht. ex Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. i, 165. 
A herb 25-30 cm. high, stemless, with 6-7 long petiolate quadrifolio- 
late leaves and a solitary longer scape. Tap root short and abruptly 
tapering, 4-5 cm. long ; secondary roots many, fibrous. Bulbs large, flatly 
globose, 2 cm. long, 2 '4 cm. in diameter; scales (really the old bases of 
the petioles) many, brownish-white, lanceolate, acuminate, distinctly 7- 
nerved, 2 cm. long, 3 mm. broad, outer larger, inner smaller and narrower; 
margins of scales broadly scarious, densely ferrugineous-ciliate in the upper 
half. Leaves long, quadrifoliolate, with almost sessile leaflets ; pulvinus 
small, bristly; petioles 19-23 cm. long, 2 mm. in diameter, flattened; 
leaflets equal, deltoid approaching to triangular, sub-bilobed, 2*5 cm. long, 
3*6 cm. broad, membranaceous, somewhat glaucous and punctate on the 
under-surface, marked by a V-shaped band of darker colour a little below 
the middle, adpressed hairy on the nerves below, otherwise perfectly glab- 
rous ; secondary nerves 4-6 pairs, divaricate from the midrib at the base, 
