. The natural history of plants. Botany. 26 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. or united at tlie summit of a common stem in one or several uni- parous cymes, similar to umljels, like those of tlie Geraniums.^ HypseocJiaris pimpinellifoUa,^ a oxdus Andrieuxii. small perennial herb of the Bolivian Andes, is to Oxalis what Monsoma is to the Geraniums, the flowers^ having fifteen stamens instead often. Eather small and not numerous glands are placed on a level with the insertion of the petals and androceum. The ovary has five oppositipetalous multi- ovulate cells. The leaves of this plant are alternate an


. The natural history of plants. Botany. 26 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. or united at tlie summit of a common stem in one or several uni- parous cymes, similar to umljels, like those of tlie Geraniums.^ HypseocJiaris pimpinellifoUa,^ a oxdus Andrieuxii. small perennial herb of the Bolivian Andes, is to Oxalis what Monsoma is to the Geraniums, the flowers^ having fifteen stamens instead often. Eather small and not numerous glands are placed on a level with the insertion of the petals and androceum. The ovary has five oppositipetalous multi- ovulate cells. The leaves of this plant are alternate and imparipui- nate. The flowers * are in scorpoid cymes at the summit of a common stem. Caramlola has the flower of Oxalis. In one of the two species known, Averrhoa Bilimbi,^ the ten â stamens are fertile and five only among them alternipetalous ia the true species of Caramlola.^ These are Asiatic trees, with pinnate leaves, and the fruit is a pentagonal berry. The fruit is also fleshy although small in the trees from tro- pical Asia of which the genus Connaropsis^ is made, and which when better known will doubtless be rejoined to the genus Fig. 68. Habit. 1 Several species have two sorts of flowers : those with no corolla or one hut little developed being late, slow, and producing fruit rather than those whose petals are well developed and which are sometimes quite sterile. (See H. Bn. in jldansonia^ vii. 97.) 2 Eemy, in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 238. âWedd. CUor. andin. ii. 289, t. 81.âB. H. Qen. 276, n. 14.âH. Bn. in Adansonia, x. 362. ' White with-yellow claw. â ⢠Averrhoa L. Gen. 677.âJ. Gen. 375.â Lamk. Diet. i. 619; Suppl. ii. 90 ; III. t. 385. âCoKK. in Ann. Mus. viii. 71, t. 2.âDC. Frodr. i, 689.âSpach, Suit d, Buffon, iii. 234.âEndl. Oen. n. 6059.âB. H. Qeti. 277, n. 16.âH. Bn. in Payer Fam. Nat. 399. « L. Spec. 613.âCav. Diss. t. IIO.âBlim- bingum teres Eumph. Serb. Amboin. i. 119. t. 36.âBucH. 2)eo. iii. t. 6.âMaltis indica frmtu


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