date, and almost entirely concealing the three inner and more 
membranaceous ones; all of them more or less conjoined at 
the base. Corolla of five yellow, obcordate petals, united 
at the base by a membrane between the claws. Stamens 
united at the base: filaments slightly pubescent. Germen 
oblongo-cylindrical : Styles five, rather short, filiform : 
Stigmas penicelliform, green. 3 
This very singular species of Wood-sorrel was received 
at the Glasgow Botanic Garden from Valparaiso, by favour 
of our often-mentioned friend Mr. Cruicxsnanxs, and is 
unquestionably the same with Mr. Linptey’s O. carnosa in 
the Bot. Register. That gentleman states it to be the 
plant of the same name in Mottna’s Chili. Dx Canpotie 
seems to have taken no notice of the species ; and SpRENGEL 
has united it with O. magellanica, which, as De CanpoLLE 
describes them, has the petioles clothed with hairs of a 
brown colour. | ; 
_ It is a plant well deserving of cultivation, flowering dur- 
ing a great part of the summer, and succeeding well in a 
cool greenhouse. It increases readily by the roots, and 
would no doubt flourish during the warm season, if planted 
in light earth in a sheltered situation in the open air: where 
perhaps the leaves would become still larger, and the glit- 
tering crystalline appearance of their underside more con- 
spicuous, as is the case with the Mrsempryanraemum 
chrystallinum, whose frosted appearance is of an exactly 
similar nature. 
Fig. 1. Single Flower, 2. Portion of the Stamens. 3, Pistil—Magnified. 
