Oxalis.]  OXALIDER (Sond.) 323 
brous above, appressedly pilose underneath, without calli; peduncles 
downy, much longer than the leaves, bibracteolate ; sepals linear- 
lanceolate, pubescent, 4-5 times shorter than the somewhat hairy co- 
rolla, which has a yellowish tube and an ample, violet-purple limb.  O. 
elongata, E. & Z.! 694, non Jacq. O. elongata, a, H. Mey.! Zey! 114. 
Hb. Un. It: 591. - 
Var. 8, callosa ; leaflets a little broader, bicallous under the tip. 0. 
elongata, b, E. Mey. t 
Has. Among shrubs, at the foot of the Lion’s Mountain and other er 
Capetown, FE. & Z./, Drege! Gc. B. in Zwartland, Drege! Winter. (Herb. Vind., 
T.C.D., Sond.) 
Bulbs often aggregate. Stems 2-3 incheslong. Petioles uncial, or siititee: Leaf- 
lets 3-4 lines long, a line wide, dotted. Peduncles 2-3 inches. Cor." ‘9-10 lines long. 
Var. 8 has shorter and broader leaves, with calli. This differs from its allies by its 
pubescence, and from Q. versicolor also by the colour of the flower. 
15. 0. tenuifolia (Jacq. ! t. 38); bulb ovate, blackish ; stem erect, 
leafy, pubescent, many-leaved at the summit; leaflets linear, carinate, 
emarginate, subpilose, on the underside margined with many calli; pe- 
duncles longer than the leaves, pubescent, bibracteolate ; sepals lance- 
olate, pubescent, thrice as short as the campanulate corolla; tube of 
corolla yellowish, limb white with a red border. DC. No. 142. Lodd. 
Cab. t. 712. O. versicolor, 3, Thunb. O. Thunbergiana, patula, and Lod- 
digesiana, EZ. & Z. ! 683, 684, 685. O. limbata, EF. Mey.! 
Has. Grassy and stony places, near Constantia, and along the east sides of 
Table Mountain. Hott. Holland, the Paarlberg, Drakensteen, Palmiet River, and 
in Zwartland, Thunberg, E. § Z.! Drege, W.H.H., ce. Ap.-May. (Herb. Holm., 
Vind., E. Mey., T.C.D., Sond. &c.) 
6-12 inches high. Stem rarely branched, leafy from the base or middle, with 
crowded leaves and undewslenakt branchlets.» Petioles of the lateral leaves rather 
shorter than the leaflets ; of the terminal as long as the leaflets. Leaflets 4-6 li 
long, soutcoly 3 line wide. eit 2 | inh as erect or sg a 
shorter petio: Sas dajilets-dco'unrcowel-iad sea Sues 
16. 0. Mundtii (Sond.) ; bulb ovate, ee ‘prea eke: stein i die . 
scaly, leafless or somewhat leafy above, many-leaved at ‘the summit ; 
the petioles, wnder sides of leaflets, peduncles, and calyces, pubescent with 
short hairs ; leaflets as long as their petiole, linear, complicate, ob- — 
very 
tuse, or minutely emarginate, glabrous above, without ‘calli ; Wncle *. 
pibracteolate, longer than the leaf; sepals ovate or sutb-lanceo ate, 4-6 — 
times shorter aia the corolla; ‘tube of corolla yellowish, limb violet- 
purple. : 
Var. a. minor; leaflets 2-3 Vines long, 13 lines wide ; limb of the a 
corolla violet purple. — 
Var. 8. albiflora ; leaflets 2-3 inas long; 13 lines wide ; corolla — 
white. 
VaR. Y- eect mec leaflets 4 item long, 1 line wide, rusty above ; 
tube of the corolla shorter, limb pale, with red border. 
Has. Sandy and muddy places, a, at the Berg and Hex Rivers, Zeyi 
at Berg R., / 250. ‘y. Swellendam, Mundt. ! Ma: i a 
aon ri jac. Siem > sinh, with 2-3 very shor ra 
