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OXALIS* Bdwiei. 



Bowie's Oxalis. 



DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



Botany, p. 140.) 



OXALIS.— Supra, vol. \5.fol 



if 



Ox. fioietri ; radice bulbosa, foliis ternatis, petiolo viridi, sexunciali, foliolis 

 magnis, rotundatk obverseque cordatis, viridibus, medio biunciali majore, 

 scapo petiolis longiore viridi nutante, dein suberecto, umbella circiter 

 12-flora, bracteis minutis rubescentibus, pedunculis 1-3-floris l|-unciali- 

 bus ex viridi rubescentibus curvatis, suberectis, dein recte devexis, calycis 

 foliolis oblongis, acutis, rubro marginatis, corollas tubo luteo limbo saturate 

 roseo, expansione l|-unciali; staminibus tubo brevioribus, stigmatibus 

 provectioribus, quinque cseteris longioribus ; planta tota (perianthio 

 excepto) minutissime pubescente. — W. H. 



" This most beautiful and florid plant is hardy, and in 

 the open ground will flower in the autumn ; but it blossoms 

 most profusely when kept in a pot under glass, especially 

 if, after a short period of rest at midsummer, it is placed in 

 a stove or warm greenhouse for a very short time to make 

 it start freely. The specimen from which the sketch is 

 made grew in a 5i-inch pot, from which arose fifteen 

 nearly simultaneous 2 scapes, with a succession of younger 

 °nes, and about thirty of its great leaves, of the most fresh 

 and lively green. Its flowers expand in a very moderate 

 temperature." 



For the foregoing notes upon this very interesting species 

 w e are indebted to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert. 



J . Lj. 



* See fol. 1 249 



