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acutis eglandulosis, staminibus altioribus calycem breviora 
stylosque subequantem duplo superantibus. 
In solo argillaceo prope Tulbagh (IV. B. b.) Maj. 1838. 
Krauss, n. 1160. 
A remarkable species, belonging to the group of O. mono- 
phylla Jacq., but quite distinct from all the species hitherto 
described. The whole plant is more or less covered with 
minute capitate hairs, which, however, may possibly be a 
mucor rather than a real pubescence. Bulb ovate, of the 
size of a middling cherry, clothed with lacerated thin mem- 
branes, beneath which appears a thick irregular netting of 
fibres; from its pointed, pyramidal top arises a thin stem, 
scarcely longer than 3-5 lines, bearing at the extremity two 
or three small roundish membranaceous scales, from the axils 
of which spring about half a dozen erect leaves and nearly as 
many peduncles. Leaves (including the petiole which is never 
longer than 4-5 lines) about 13 inch long, their lamina not 
above one line broad, and connectedwith the filiform petiole by 
an almost obsolete articulation, flat, of a thin herbaceous tex- 
ture, attenuated at both ends, showing one faint middle 
nerve, and bearing no gland at the obtuse apex. Peduncles 
filiform, 2-2} inches long, erect, without any trace of 
bracteoles. Flowers twice the size of those of O. acetosella ; 
calyx funnel-shaped, 2 lines long, of a dark purplish-brown, 
divided below the middle into 5 acute equal lobes of two- 
thirds of a line in breadth, without a gland at their top; tube 
of the corolla funnel-shaped, about twice as long as the calyx, 
pale yellow ? limb spreading, pale violet (lilac), lobes rounded. 
Styles a little longer than the calyx and the shorter stamens. 
12. O. arcuata, Jacq. DC. prodr. i. p. 698, n. 96.—In 
solo argillaceo prope urbem Capstadt (III. E. b.) Maj. 1838. 
Krauss, n. 1161. 
13. O. speciosa, Willd. DC.1. c., n. 107.—In solo argillaceo 
prope Tulbagh (IV. B. b) Maj. 1838. Krauss, n. 1147. (ex 
parte.) 
14. O. purpurea, Willd. DC. 1. c., n. . 109.—Cum un ; 
Krauss, n. 1147. (ex parte.) ium 
