Oxalis. | OXALIDE (Sond.) 3387 
(3). The medial, or all the leaflets obcordate. (Sp. 63-75). 
(a). Stemless or stipitate. (63-69.) 
63. 0. Uitenhagensis (Sond.) ; stemless ; petiole and scape villous; 
leaflets obcordate, quite glabrous above, villous underneath, ciliated, not 
dotted ; scape much longer than the leaves, with 2 setaceous, villous 
bracteoles above the middle; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 3-4 times 
shorter than the corolla; capsule glabrous, twice as long as the calyx. 
Has, Sandy places near the Zwartkop’s R., Uit., ! 2119, ; if 
Ga Neg Mer ate Ca CGD Boa ten BE! 
A small, pale plant. Petioles 4-1 inch long. Leaflets 3-4 lines wide, 2-3 long. 
Scapes weak, 3-4 times as long as the leaves, sprinkled with long, soft villi and 
short capitate hairs. Calyx villous. Cor. 6-7 lines long, with yellowish tube and 
white limb. Caps. 4 lines long. Easily known from 0. imbricata, E. & Z. by its 
smaller flowers and longer peduncles. 
64. 0. imbricata (E. & Z.! 736); shortly stipitate, villoso-pubescent ; 
bulbs numerous, ovate, smooth, imbricating each other ; leaflets obcor- 
date, pilose on both sides, often purple underneath, dotted, ciliate ; scape 
equalling or excelling the leaves, with 2 setaceous bracteoles above the 
middle ; sepals lanceolate, 5 times as short as the corolla; capsule pilose. 
Var. £8. limb of the corolla rose-coloured. 
Has. Fields near the Zwartkop’s R., Uit., Koega Camma’s kloof, 
vlakte, and Oliphant’s Riv., FE. &Z./ Mundt & Maire, Zey./ 2110, 2116. 8. near 
Caledon, Zey./ 2126. In the Bassutos country, and Somerset. May-June. (Herb. 
Vind., Lehm., Hook., T.C.D., Sond.) 
Bulbs very numerous, ovate, with smooth, black scales in a bulb- 
cluster 2-3 inches or more in Stipe uncial, scaly. Petioles mostly 2 inch, 
with spreading soft hairs. ets 3 lines long and wide, acutely inate, at 
glabrate above, beneath with appressed white hairs. Scape gaa lengt 
of the leaves, usually a little longer or nearly twice as long, villous. Calyx pu 
cent, ciliated. Cor, 1o-12 lines long, yellowish at bottom, with a broad, white 
limb ; in £. rosy or sub-violet. 
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65. 0. cruentata (Jacq. f.! Eccl. t. 45); substipitate; bulb ovate, 
minute ; petioles hairy ; leaflets obcordate, glabrous above, eens a8 
plish underneath and pilose ; scape little longer than the leaves, villous, 
bibracteolate above the middle; sepals lanceolate, pilose, ciliate at the 
apex, thrice as short as the corolla. DC, No. 128. 
Has. Cape, Hb. Jacq./ Holls river, Drege / No. 7432, 9528. (Herb. Vind.) 
All the leaves radical. Leaflets 5—6 lines long, 
Petioles 3—5 inches long, terete. : 
3-4 lines wide. Flowers 6-8 lines long, le, with yellow tube. Sepals at point 
and margin sprinkled with bloody spots. 's plant differs from Jacquin’s in hav- 
ngs pe twice as long as the leaves, and in the leaflets, other- 
66. 0. obtusa (Jacq, ! tab. 79. f. 1.) ; stemless or stipitate, densely pu- 
bescent, with an angular and pitted bulb ; leaflets obcordate, thickly 
puberulous above, hollow-dotted on each side; scape longer than the 
leaves, bibracteolate above the middle ; sepals oblong, rather obtuse, | 
3-4 times shorter than the corolla. Thwnb.! Cap. No. 8. O.lanata, 
var. 4. Thunb. Diss. p. 10. Willd. Sp.p.29. DC.No.137. E.@Z! fo 
732. O.cuneata, Un, It. No. 587. O. thermarum, E. & Z.! 733 
cunosa, EB. & Z.! 734. O.cuprea, Lodd. E.§ 2.1735. O. ci 
