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No. 1109. 
OXALIS CAPRINA. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
A native of the Capeof Good Hope. We 
received bulbs of it from Mr. Synnet in the 
latter part of the last summer : they flow- 
ered in October. 
It is necessary to preserve it in a green- 
house, and during the dormant season, 
which with this family in general is our 
summer months, it should be kept quite dry. 
It increases itself by offsets of the bulbs, 
which are readily produced, and should be 
potted in sandy loam. 
We have no doubt that this is the О. са- 
prina of Jacquin, Oxalis, tab. 76, fig. 1, 
which represents it very well. It is also 
given by Burmann, Afric. tab. 28, fig. 3. 
Both Jacquin and Thunberg describe the 
flowers as purple, but they had not seen it 
in a living state. 
Some authors have considered Burmann’s 
tab. 29 as the same with this ; but it is ra- 
ther an imperfect ae; of О. cernua, to 
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