324 PHANEROGAMIA. 



Hab. Between Caballeros and Obrajillo, and near Banos, Andes of 

 Peru. 



Stems 3 or 4 inches high, very numerous from the long and fusi- 

 form woody root, ascending, branching, viscous-pubescent, as are the 

 slender petioles, peduncles, &c. Stipules none. Leaflets 3, very small 

 (only a line and a half in length) , distinctly petiolulate, thickish, pale, 

 becoming glabrous, obovate and wedge-shaped, the apex notched, or 

 slightly obcordate. Peduncles axillary, longer than the leafstalks, an 

 inch or more in length, naked, tivo-cleft at the apex, cymosely several- 

 flowered : the two branches usually undivided; each node bearing a 

 pair of lanceolate bractlets, of about a line in length, which subtend a 

 single flower. Pedicels shorter than the bractlets. Sepals ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, 2 to 3 lines long, much shorter 

 than the petals, the colour of which cannot be determined. Filaments 

 thickened upwards, exceeding the styles, and like them bearded with 

 viscous hairs; the longer ones often toothed near the base. Stigmas 

 capitate. Capsule ovoid, shorter than the calyx, very few-seeded. Seeds 

 ovoid, rugose. 



* * * * Antarctica;. 



12. Oxalis Magellanica, Forst. 



Oxalis Mayellanica, Forst. in Comm. Goett. 9, p. 33 ; Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. p. 253, & 



Fl. N. Zeal. p. 42, t. 13. 

 0. lactea, Hook. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 416, ex Hook. f. 

 0. cataractce, A. Cunn.; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 418, ex Hook. f. 



Hab. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. 



There are two forms in the collection : one of them, in fruit, well 

 agrees with Dr. Hooker's figure, from New Zealand specimens : the 

 other is smaller in all its parts, and more delicate. The seeds are 

 obscurely ribbed longitudinally, but not transversely wrinkled. 



***** Caperises. 



13. Oxalis hirta, Linn. 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope, in the vicinity of Cape Town. 



