330 XXIX. OXALIDACE^E. 
free. Fruit capsular 3- to 5-lobed or a berry. 
300, whole world. 
Herbaceous or stem slightly woody. 
Leaves trifoliate 
Leaves pinnate, many leaflets .... 
Trees. 
Fruits baccate ....... 
Fruits drupaceous ...... 
Climber. 
Fruits dehiscent ....... 
1 . OXALIS, Linn. 
Herbs (rarely shrubs). Leaves radical of alternate usually 
trifoliate. Flowers regular, on axillary peduncles. Sepals 5, 
imbricate. Petals 5 contort; glands of disc none. Stamens 10 
all similar. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled; styles 5 free; ovules 1 or 
more in each cell. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally, valves persistent. 
Seeds numerous small. Species 200, chiefly American. 
Creeping herb; flowers small yellow . . . (1) 0 . comiculata 
Bulbous plant; flowers large pink , . . . (2) 0 . corymbosa 
Erect branched plant; flowers small . . . . (3) 0 . Barrelled 
(1) O. corniculata L. var. villosa Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 436; King, 
l.c. 198. 
A little creeping hairy herb with trifoliate leaves; leaflets 
obcordate '2 in. long and wide, hairy; petioles 1 to 1*5 in. long. 
Sepals obtuse. Petals obcordate. Capsule cylindric tomentose 
many-seeded ’5 in. long. Hab. In waste ground by houses. Singa¬ 
pore. Garden weed. Malacca, Residency. Perak. Penang 
Residency. Distrib. Whole world. The pubescent form from 
India and Java. 
(2) O. corymbosa DC. Prod. i. 696. 
A plant with a mass of small tubers and rather large trilobed 
leaves, the lobes round retuse, 1*5 in. wide; petioles 4’5 in. long, 
all pubescent. Peduncle hairy 4 to 5 in. tall with an umbel of 
pink showy flowers 1 in. across. Introduced as an ornamental 
plant, has run wild on Penang Hill, as it has In many parts of the 
world; said to be of Mascarene origin. 
(3) O. Barrelieri Linn. Sp. PL ed. ii. 624. 
An erect often branched slender pubescent herb about 12 in. 
tall, with small pink and yellow flowers. Occurs as a weed in the 
Botanic Gardens. Native of West Indies and South America. 
It occurs also in Java. 
2 . BIOPHYTUM, DC. 
Herbs simple or branched with a tuft of pinnate leaves at the 
top of the half-woody stem. Leaflets opposite oblique oblong 
truncate. Peduncles terminal with an umbel of small white, pink 
[Oxalis. 
Species about 
1. Oxalis 
2. Biophytum 
3. Averrhoa 
4. CoNNAROPSIS 
5. Dapania 
