92 GERANIACES:. [Oxalis 
Var. a.—Decumbent. Leaves stipulate. Capsules $-lin. long, downy. 
Var. b, stricta, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 42.—EHrect or suberect. Stipules 
wanting. Flowers small. Capsules large.—O. stricta, Linn. Sp. Plant. 435. 
O. Urvillei, propinqua, divergens, lacicola, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 584, 586, 588, 
590. 
Var. c, microphylla, Hook. f. l.c.—Stems procumbent, slender, rooting. 
Leaflets usually minute. Capsule oblong.—O. exilis, A. Cunmn. l.c. n. 587. 
Var. d, ciliifera, Hook. f. l.c.— Stems procumbent, filiform, matted. 
Leaflets membranous, ciliated.—O. tenuicaulis and O. ciliifera, A. Cunn. l1.c. 
n. 589, 591. 
Var. e, crassifolia, Hook. f. l.c.—Stems rigid, matted. Leaflets small, 
thick, pilose.—O. crassifolia, A. Cunn. l.c. n. 592. 
Kerrmabec Istanps, Norta anp SoutH Is~tAnps: Abundant throughout, 
chiefly in lowland situations. 
One of the most widely diffused and variable plants known, found in almost 
all temperate and tropical countries. 
2. O. magellanica, Porst. in Comm. Gotting. ix. (1789) 33.—A 
small glabrous or pubescent almost stemless herb 2-4 in. high; 
rootstock creeping, scaly. Leayes all radical, on long slender hairy 
petioles, trifoliolate; leaflets obcordate, glabrous, glaucous beneath. 
Peduncles radical, long and slender, often exceeding the leaves, 
2-bracteolate above the middle, 1-flowered. Flowers rather large, 
pure white, 4-4in. diam. Sepals small, ovate, obtuse. Petals 
obovate or obcordate, often oblique. Capsule globose.—Hook. f 
Fl. Antarct. 11. 253; Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 42, t. 138; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 38; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. i. 300; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 84. O. cataracte, 
A. Cunn. Precur. n. 585; Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 418; Raoul, Choiax, 47. 
NorrH anp South Istanps: From Mongonui and Kaitaia southwards, in 
damp and shaded or subalpine localities. Sea-level to fully 4000 ft. Also 
in Australia, Tasmania, Chili, and Fuegia, and closely allied to the common 
O. acetosella of the Northern Hemisphere. 
Orver XIV. RUTACEA. 
Trees or shrubs, very rarely herbs, plentifully supplied with 
pellucid glands filled with an aromatic or pungent essential oil. 
Leaves opposite or alternate, simple or compound, exstipulate. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or rarely unisexual. Calyx 
4—5-lobed or divided into as many free sepals, imbricate. Petals 
the same number, hypogynous or slightly perigynous, imbricate or 
valvate. Stamens usually free, hypogynous, as many or twice as 
many as the petals, rarely more numerous; anthers 2-celled, versa- 
tile. Disc placed between the stamens and ovary, usually annular, 
entire or lobed or crenate. Ovary of 4-5 free or connate carpels ; 
styles as many, free at the base, united above; ovules usually 2 in 
each carpel. Fruit very various, sometimes of 4-5 2-valved cocci, 
or a berry or drupe, rarely a capsule with loculicidal dehiscence. 
Seeds generally solitary in each cell; albumen fleshy or wanting ; 
embryo large, straight or curved, radicle superior. 
