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margin. In var. 8, occasionally the peduncle is short, 1-2-flowered, from the axil 
of the upper leaves. 
107. 0. stellata (E & Z.! 661) ; stipitate or caulescent, glabrous ; 
bulb ovate, blackish, with smooth scales ; stem somewhat branched at 
base, sealy ; ; terminal leaves crowded, with slender petioles; leaflets 
deeply bilobed, lobes linear, divaricate ; peduncles terminal, longer than 
the leaves, umbellately 2-6-flowered ; sepals lanceolate, callous at the 
point, 3-4 times shorter than the corolla, 
Var. 8. violacea ; nearly stemless or shortly stipitate, with viole t- 
coloured flowers. 0. polyscapa, E. § Z.! 660. 
Has. In fields and clayey places, of Uitenhage, Albany, and Somerset, z. &Z./ 
Zey.! 2135, 2137, 2138. (Herb. Vind., E. Mey., Lehm., Hook., TC.D., Sond.). 
Bulb inch long. Stipe or stem sometimes 3 foot long. Petioles mostly 1-2 inch 
long, in some specimens more than 4 inches. Leaflets 4-6 lines long, divided to ? 
their the lobes 1 line wide. Scapes mostly twice as long as the leaves, Pe- 
dicels of the umbel uncial, shorter or longer. Cor. 8-12 lines long, white, rarely 
pale-rosy, with yellowish tube and ample ; in 8. violaceous and less wide. 
(3.) Root fibrous, not bulbiferous. Stem branching. Leaves trifoliolate. Flowers 
yellow. (Sp. 108). 
108. 0. corniculata (Linn. Sp. 624) ; root fibrous, branching ; stems 
diffuse or creeping, filiform, pubescent, rooting at base; leaves on long 
petioles ; leaflets obcordate, ciliate, villous. or glabrous underneath ; 
stipules oblong, adnate ; peduncles axillary, 2-4-flowered, shorter than 
the leaf or longer ; pedicels refracted in fruit; capsules pubescent. 
Thunb. diss. No. 20. Jacq.! t.5. HE & Z.! 648. 0. pusilla, Salish. Linn. 
Soc. Trans. 2. p. 243. t. 23. f.2. O. repens, Thunb. Diss. No. 14. t. 1. Fl. 
Cap. No. 22. Jacq! t. 58. f.1. DO.No.33. E & Z.! 649. 0. ceratt- 
lis, E. Mey.! Un. It. No. 595. 
Has, Everywhere in cultivated ground, throughout the colony and in Caffraria. iia 
(Herb. Sond., T.C.D., &e.) 
Thal sabeedi ic: Well! ain Gutle Dah cm bentinnecinn aliticaheettokoctibns (+ Hele 
Petioles inch long or more, villous. Leaflets 3-4 lines long and wide. Peduncles 
brace a thn forking. Cora sma ew, abot twice as long steely. udu 
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OnpER XXKY. | 2YGOPHYLLE. R.Br. 
Br. in Flinder’s Voy. . DC. ‘Prod I. p. 703. Endl. Gen. No. celiii. 
Zygophyllacea, Lindl. vas King. No. clxxx.) | 
Flowers perfect and regular. Calyx free, A or deciduous, 
4-5-parted, imbricate or valvate in estivation. Petals 4-5, clawed, zg 
twisted in en-aigoe rarely wanting. . Stamens twice as many as the: 
: ; filaments broader at base, naked or furnished with 
‘los taste lee s introrse, bil Ovary ona glandular or annular” 
dise, Ay Sipgalaed soled: ovules axile, either in pairs,orseveralin = 
a double row, very ae solitary ; styles (except in Seetzenia) connate, = 
sometimes very pet Fruit capsular or fleshy, rarely indehiscer 
