OXALIDE.3E. 183 



Trifolium acetosum corniculatura luteum, Sloane, Cat. 90. 



HAB. A common weed. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Root woody, brownish, smooth, dichotomously branched. 

 Stem suffruticose, decumbent : branches long, trailing, filiform, 

 coloured, pubescent. Leaves alternate, palmato-trifoliate ; com- 

 mon- petiole li inch long, subterete, pubescent; leaflets subses- 

 sile, obcordate, glabrous, ciliated. Stipules none. Peduncle 

 axillary, shorter than the petiole, puberulous, 2-flowered : 

 flowers yellow, on a pedicel half an inch in length, each at the 

 base with a linear ciliated bractea. Calycine sepals oblong, 

 blunt, ciliated. Petals obovato-oblong, rounded at the apex, 

 coherent at the base. Filaments and anthers as in the generic 

 character. Styles 5, coherent. Capsule nearly an inch in 

 length, cylindraceous, 5-sulcated, puberulous, bursting elastically 

 at the angles, and projecting the seeds with a spring. 



This is a very common weed in gardens, as also in coffee 

 pieces, and provision grounds. I cannot reconcile it either to 

 the O. STIUCTA, or O. COKNICULATA, to both of which it has 

 been referred. I have therefore been obliged to employ a new 

 specific designation. 



2. Oxalis bipunctata. Bipunctated Wood- Sorrel. 



Scape umbelliferous 3-9 flowered, leaflets rotun- 

 dato-obcordate glabrous and shining above puberulous 

 and aurantio-maculated along the margin beneath, 

 flowers shortly involucrated nodding, sepals with 2 

 orange-coloured spots at the apex. 



Graham, Sot. Mag. 2781. O. violacea, De Cand. Prod. I. 

 695? 



HAB. A weed in Gardens, and in their vicinity ; in the higher 

 mountains. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



In addition to the specific character, I may add that the 

 root is fibrous, and bears a number of imbricated bulbules, 

 protected by ovato-lanceolate scales, the outermost of which are 

 inembranaceous, marescent ; the inner scales fleshy and external- 

 ly aurantio-striated. Leaflets with two arching nerves on each 

 side of the mid-rib : petiole arising from the base of a bulbule, 

 pubescent. Scapes arising solitary from the base of a bulbule 

 in the axil of a petiole, rather longer than the leaf. Involucre 

 short, sheathing, bidentate. Bracteas small, one at the base of 

 each pedicel, aurantio-bimaculated at the apex. The spots at 

 the apex of the sepals of an orange colour. Petals violet, deli- 

 cately veined. Filaments hairy : five of them twice the length 

 of the styles ; and five of nearly the same length. Stigmata 

 lobular, green, projecting between the longer filaments. 



