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OXALIS VARIABILIS, var. ALBIFLORA. WHuITE- 
FLOWERED VARIABLE WOOD-SORREL. 
Clafs and Order. 
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Generic Charafer. . 
Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5, unguibus connexa. Sam. ineequalia: 
5 breviora exteriora, bafi connata. Cup/ angulis dehifcens, 
5-gona. 
Specific Charaéier and Synonyms. 
OXALIS variabilis; acaulis, fcapo unifloro foliis longiore 
flaccido, foliis ternatis fubrotundis, folio intermedio cunei- 
formi, ftylis flaminibus exterioribus brevioribus. /Willd. 
Sp. Pl. 2. p..777. Facq. Oxal. 8g. t. 52 et 53. 
(y-) albiflora; /capis petiolorum longitudine, limbo corolla magno albo. 
OXALIS purpurea (@.) foliis totis viridibus, limbo albo. 
Thunb. Oxal. n. 8. p. 13. 
OXALIS grandiflora. Facq. Oxal. n. 68. t. 54. ? 
In the colour and fize of its flowers, our plant correfponds 
with the grandiflora of Jacquin, which is probably only a 
variety of variabilis, The red colour on the under furface of 
the leaves, according to Jacgurn himfelf, is not conftant. 
We regret, that not having feen the individual plant from 
which our drawing was taken, we had no opportunity of 
examining the proportionate length of the ftyles and ftamens, 
which Jacguin confiders as a very important and conftant 
chara€ter. We received however two pots of Oxatis variabilis, 
one with red, the other with white and pale flowers, from 
Meffrs. Loppices; many of the flowers of which we examined 
with care, but were much difappointed to find that the fituation 
of the ftigmas feemed to vary according to circumftances ; 
fometimes they were placed below the lower feries of anthers, 
fore 
