Gardnerianca. N. O. Oxalidez. 
TAB. CCCLXI. 
Oxais CraTEnsis. 
Herbacea erecta ramosa glabra, caule folioso, foliis sublonge 
petiolatis unijugis cum impari petiolulato subrhombeo-ovatis 
obtusis, pedunculis axillaribus folium sequantibus apice bifi- 
dis racemosis, rachibus (floribus delapsis) denticulatis, sepalis 
ovatis non sphacelatis, filamentis glabris, stigmatibus patenti- 
bus, staminibus brevioribus iis longioribus. 
Has. Moist cane fields about Crato, Brazil; Mr Gardner. 
Root branching, annual. Stems 8 or 10 inches to a foot 
high, rounded, herbaceous, glabrous. Leaves on rather long 
_ slender petioles, bearing 3, ovato-rhomboid, glabrous leaflets, 
about an inch long, the two lateral ones smaller, nearly sessile, 
the terminal one on a petiolule one-fourth the length of the 
leaflet, Peduncles axillary, about as long as the leaf, bifid at 
the extremity, each branch being a raceme of flowers which 
elongates as the flowers fall off, leaving a toothed rachis. Calyx 
glabrous: sepals ovate, acute, green, not sphacelate nor spotted. 
Petals pale pink, united by their bases. Filaments 5 long, and 
5 short, united at the base into a distinct tube, glabrous. An- 
_ thers short, all alike. Germen ovato-globose. Styles spread- 
_ ing; the dilated stigmas protruded between the filaments, shorter 
than the shortest stamens. : 
Nearly allied to O. Barrellieri of Jacq. Ihave not Jacquin’s 
figure to refer to. Lamarck describes that plant as fruticose, 
While ours is certainly annual. Sir James Smith, however, speaks 
of it as annual, and Barrellier’s figure evidently appears to be so 
too, and is indeed a good representation of our plant. Our 
figure was taken from a living specimen which was raised from 
Seeds sent by Mr Gardner. 
Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. Portion of the corolla. jf. 8. Stamens 
and pistil, £4, Pistil :—magnified. 
