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reported from Kumaon, Gill No. 5. Burkill (No. 215) some years ago 
came across it in Shillong, Assam, but its presence due to misidenti- 
fication of the specimen was not at the time noted. In Southern 
India it is reported from the Pulney Hills in 1913 by Lady Bourne 
(No. 5983). 
Plate VIII. — 1, plant, nat. size; 2, flower X 1; 3, calyx x lb; 
4, corolla x 14; 5, androecium x 18; 6 , gynseceum X 20; 7, bulbils, 
nat. size. 
9. Oxalis corvmbosa DC, Pd. i, 696. 
Oxalis bipunctata R. Grab, in Edin. Nat. Phil. Journ, (April-June 
1827) 176 ; Ilook. Bot. Mag. t. 2781. 
Oxalis Martiana Zucc. in Denksch. Akad. Muench ix, (1823-24) 144. 
Oxalis urbica A. St. Hil. FI. Bras. Mer. i, 125. 
A perennial herb with scaly bulb producing many side bulbils, 23-25 
cm. high, with the petioles arising directly from the bulb. Bulb globose, 
acute at the top, 1 cm. long, 1*4 cm. in diameter, consisting of numerous 
outer dry thin papery brownish scales (really'the old leaf-bases) 3*ribbed 
above the middle, and of about 12-15 inner fleshy scales which are light 
brown in colour. Leaves 9-12, basilar, stipulate, trifoliolate ; petioles 
very thin, flexuous, the bases considerably widened forming a sort of 
involucre to the bulb, 13-24 cm. long, 1 mm. broad above, 3 mm. broad at 
the base, very sparsely hairy ; leaflets equal, broadly obcordate with a 
narrow sinus, base cuneate, 1*2-1*8 cm. long, 1*8-2 *5 cm. broad, membra- 
naceous, adpressed-hairy on both surfaces, punctate with black glands ; 
secondary nerves 2-3 pairs, obscure near the margin ; pulvini of the 
leaflets small, very short, pilose. Scapes 2-3 very long and flexuous, 16-21 
cm. long, longer than the petioles, sparsely hairy. Cymes umbelliform, 
cernous, 6-7-flowered, bracteate ; bracts very minute, membrana- 
ceous, pilose, 1 mm. long, persistent. Flowers 1*4 cm. long, pedicellate ; 
pedicels unequal, slender, flexuose, sparsely hairy, *4-2 cm. long. Sepals 5, 
distinct, elliptic, erect, 5-6 mm. long, acute, herbaceous, sparsely hairy 
on the upper surface, with two small orange-coloured divergent glands 
at the apex ; glands *4 mm. long. Petals 5, violet, cuneate-oblique, 
1*4 cm. long, 4 mm. broad in the middle, very slightly hairy on the 
outer surface. Stamens 10, filaments united for about a third of the 
distance from the base into a short angular 1*5 mm. long tube, alter- 
nately longer and shorter ; longer free filaments 3 mm. long, narrowed 
considerably upwards, quite erect, exceeding the styles, hairy ; shorter 
free filaments 1 *5 mm. long, flattened, glabrous ; anthers yellow, short, 
oblong. Ovary obtusely 5-angled, oblong, quite glabrous, 3 mm. long ; 
