Dr Graham's List of Bare Plants, 39*^ 



plant will be as soon as the bo8t mode of cultivating it shall be ascer- 

 tainod. Both Mr Cunningham's specimen, and those which we pos- 

 sess in the Botanic Garden, were obtained from Mr Low of Clapton, 

 who informs me that he raised it in 1839, " from seed received from 

 Mr William Morison, of the Swan River Settlement, and marked 

 Sollya or Bellardiera sp. from tlie Darling Range of Mountains," The 

 Clapton Nursery is distinguished by many seedling novelties from the 

 same settlement. 



Oxalis lasiandra. Hort. Berol. 



O. lasiandra ; foliis omnibus radicalibus digitatis, foliolis 7-9 oblongo- 

 spathulatis, parce pilosis, apice integerrimis ; scapo folio superante, 

 umbellate, multi-(20-)floro; sepalis lincari-ellipticis, obtusis, apice 

 striis quatuor conflucntibus ; staminibus injBqualibus, longioribus 

 dentatis, stylos divergentes duplo superantibus. 

 Oxalis lasiandra, Bot. Mag. 3896. 

 Description. — Leaves all radical, digitate ; petioles round, red, pretty 

 densely covered with long spreading hairs, terminating in an abrupt 

 somewhat callous apex ; leaflets 7-9 (3 inches long, 1 broad) spring- 

 ing from callous bases around the edge of the apex of the petiole, el- 

 liptico-spathulate, quite entire at the apex and edges, undulate, rather 

 coarsely veined, of dark green, and distantly sprinkled with long 

 spreading hairs above, below paler spotted with crimson and glabrous, 

 except on the strong middle rib and veins, where there are hairs ra- 

 ther more numerous, but shorter, than on the upper surface of the 

 leaf. Scapes rather larger than the petioles and twice as tall, paler 

 red or greenish, fistulous only at the base, tapering towards the apex, 

 having hairs similar to those on the petioles, but scarcely so nume- 

 rous, umbellate, many-(about 20-)flowered. Bracts formed into an 

 involucre of several unequal diaphanous scales. Flowers large and 

 handsome, developed in succession, crimson, especially on the inside 

 and where the petals overlap each other, the exposed part of the outer 

 side being paler than the rest. Sepals linear-elliptical, blunt, green, 

 covered externally with glandular hairs, and having at. the apex four 

 orange-coloured lines which coalesce upwards. Petals nearly thrice 

 as long as the sepals, with very fine glandular pubescence on the out- 

 side, obovate, entire, attenuated and greenish at the base, cohering 

 above their insertion. Stamens ten, unequal, the shorter simple, and 

 about as long as the styles, the longer toothed on the outside, covered 

 with glandular pubescence, and scarcely exceeding the length of the 

 sepals ; anthers yellow, elliptical, attached by the middle, turned out- 

 wards, and bursting longitudinally. Pistil every where glabrous and 

 green ; germen oblong, of five lobes ; styles short, stout, furrowed on 

 their inner side, divaricated from their origin ; stigmata large, warted. 

 This singular species is a native of Mexico, but I do not know from what 

 part of that territory it was introduced, though, from its constitution, 

 I do not doubt that it is a native of the table land. It approaches 

 most nearly to Oxalis decaphylla, or perhaps to 0, Hernandcsii, if these 

 two be distinct from each other ; it differs from these, however, in 

 the entire leaflets, the number and appearance of the hairs upon their 

 surface, the number of flowers in the umbel, their colour, the spotting 

 at the apex of the sepals, and in the unequal stamens. "We received 

 it at the Royal Botanic Garden from tlie garden at Berlin, in Novem- 

 ber 1840, under the MS. name adopted. Mr James M'Nab tells me 

 it is there cultivated in the open ground, forming an edging to the 

 walks. With us it flowered in the green-house, and continued in 

 beauty during many weeks. At Berlin, in the open air, it was not 

 above nine inches high, with us more than twice as much. 



