Tap. 8054. 
OXALIS apENOPHYLLA. 
Chili. 
Greraniacez. Tribe OXALipEs. 
Oxauis, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 276. 
Oxalis adenophylla, Gill. in Hvok. Bot. Misc. vo). iii. (1833) p. 165; Gay Fi. 
Chil, vol. i. (1845) p. 458; species ex affinitate O. enneaphyllx, Cav. sed 
caudice bulbiformi non rhizomatoso et floribus roseis diversa. 
Herba caule brevissimo. Bulbus 1-1} pol]. diam., extus squamis lineari- 
lanceolatis glabris intus foliorum basibus persistentibus longe-ciliatis com- 
_positus. Folia glabra; foliola 12-22, aeboaasttine obcordata, basi attenu- 
ata, lobis glaucis laxe cellulosis carnosis ; petiolus 2-5 poll. longus ; petiolali 
brevissimi, incrassati, leviter pilosi, nigro-violacei. Pedunculi petiolis 
gequilongi, 2-3 flori, 2-bracteolati. Flores heterostyli, 14-2 poll. diam. 
Sepala lanceolata, subacuta, ciliata, fere 3 lin. longa. etala obovato- 
obcordata, patula, intense rosea, basi purpurea, circa 1 poll. longa. 
Stamina 10, quorum 5 longiora stylos superantia, approximata, omnium 
filamentis basi incrassatis coalitis. Stylz 5, stamina breviora exceden- 
tia, stigmatibus capitatis. Capsula oblonga.—O. Bustillosii, Phil. in 
Linnea, vol. xxviii. (1856) p. 614. 
O. adenophylla is closely allied to O. enneaphylla 
(B. M. t. 6256) from Fuegia and the Falkland Islands. It 
differs mainly in the bulb-like rootstock, which in the 
latter is a horizontal rhizome. 
In Reiche’s Flora of Chili (1896), where eighty-eight 
species of Oxalis are enumerated, the genus is divided into 
two sections, Palmatifolia and Trifolia. 'The two species 
in question belong to the Palmatifolia group, which 
comprises only two others, namely, O. laciniata and 
O. squamoso-radicosa. 
The specific appellation, gland-leaved, evidently refers to 
the dark-coloured petiolules, which, however, are non- 
secretive. O. adenophylla, like some other members of the 
genus, possesses heterostyled flowers, one form, that here 
figured, having mid-styled flowers; but both long and 
short-styled flowers have been observed. 
The plant from which the drawing was made was 
presented to Kew in 1902 by Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., who 
collected it in Chili, near San Martin, at an elevation of 
— six thousand feet, growing by rivulets above the tree 
ine. 
January Ist, 1906. 
