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straight but arching in the end towards it, prominent on the undersurface. 
Scape solitary, terete, longer than the petioles, 25 cm. long, puberulous. 
Umbels 6- 10 -flowered, bracteate ; bracts many, involucrate, lanceolate 
acute, scarious, 2 ram. long, 9 mm. broad, persistent ; pedicels subequal,, 
slender 1-5-2 cm. long. Flowers 1 '4- cm. long. Sepals 5, ovate, acute, 
5 mm. long, 2mm. broad, 5-7-nerved, puberulous, herbaceous, with two 
contiguous linear glands at the apex, persistent. Petals 5, mauve, united 
to a fourth of their length from below excepting the very short free 
claws, cuneate at the base and rounded at the apex, 1:2 om. long, 8 mm. 
broad, glabrous. Stamens 10, alternately longer and shorter, united 
below into a shallow membranous cup ; longer filaments densely hairy, 
2 mm. long very shortly appendaged ; shorter filaments 1 mm. long, 
glabrous ; anthers oblong. Ovary narrow, obscurely 5 -angled, 2 mm. 
long, glabrous ; styles 5, erect, three times as long as the ovary, distinct, 
with short bristles densely arranged ; stigmas 5, peltate. 
Alike with 0. corywbosa and 0. latifolia herein dealt with this is a 
native of America (Mexico). We find it first mentioned in Cavanilles 
“leones et Descriptiones ” published in 1794, a time at which much 
exploration was being undertaken in the American continent. Cavanilles 
got it to flower in Madrid, the description and figures he gives being 
probably derived from European productions of the plant. His figure 
shows both the three and four partite nature of the leaves and is re- 
markably accurate as indeed most of his leones are. If Progel is 
right in excluding it from the indigenous flora of Brazil it would appear 
to be endemic in the region from which it was first known. The plant 
is now fairly common in gardens throughout Europe and the East and 
would appear to have become recently naturalised in Victoria, Australia. 
The present records — Bourne No. 5982, Nilghiris, described as from 
waste lands; Sauliere No. 704 from the Pulneys and Burkill and 
Banerjee No. 69 from Shillong — are the first evidences of the naturalised 
state in India and among the first for naturalisation outside America. 
Plate VII. — 1, plant, nat. size; 2, calyx x 10 ; 3, corolla x 10; 
4, androeeium x 15; 5, stamens X 40 ; 6, gynseceum x 10. 
8. Oxalis latifolia H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v, 237 and 467. 
A herb, 15-25 cm. high, stemless, with 2-6 long-petioled radical ternate 
leaves and 2-3 scapes, all rising from a solitary bulb which sends forth 
3-1 offsets terminating in smaller bulbs. Boots few, filiform. Bulb 
ovate, P2 cm. long, 9 mm. in diameter, base fibrous; outer scales (really 
the old bases of the petioles) ovate-oblong, acute, imbricate, longi- 
tudinally 3-5-ribbed on their outer surface, membranaceous, dirty-brown, 
