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OXALIS* tortuósa. 
Tortuous Oxalis. 
mi 
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. OxaripEm. 
OXALIS. — Supra, vol. 2. fol. 117. 
Div. Caprine. Acaules aut stipite nudo apice tantúm folioso donate, 
pedunculis uni- bi- aut sepiùs multifloris, foliis radicalibus petiolatis pluri- 
foliolatis, sepiùs trifoliolatis.—Dec. prodr. 1. 695. | 
O. tortuosa; caule carnoso squamoso, foliolis 3 linearibus obtusis subtüs 
pilosis, floribus umbellatis, pedunculo petiolisque tortuosis subeequalibus 
carnosis, j 
Caulis tortuosus, carnosus, squamosus, palmaris et ultrà, in apice foliosus. 
Petioli atrovirides, filiformes, curnosi; foliola parva, linearia, carnosa, 
subobtusa, subtùs pilosa. Pedunculi petiolis similes, sed paulo longiores. 
Umbelli multiflori. Sepala triangularia v. rhomboidea, obtusa, paulò erosa, 
margine anteriore colorato. Petala lutea, cuneata, sanguineo magis minusve 
marginata. Stamina stylis subequalia. Ovaria polysperma. 
A native of Chile, where it was found growing very 
sparingly in the neighbourhood of Valparaiso, by Mr. James 
M‘Rae, in October 1825. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society in June 1828. The plant is kept in the 
Greenhouse, where it grows with a tortuous scaly stem to 
the height of a foot or thereabouts. 
The O. carnosa figured at fol. 1063 of this work has, 
since it was published, ceased to produce its blossoms 
singly, or in pairs; but now developes them in many- 
flowered umbels. It would therefore be more properly 
* "Ofuais is the Greek name for sorrel, so called on account of the 
acidity of the leaves. This genus is also acid, in as great a degree as sorrel, 
for which it is actually substituted in the countries where it grows. 
