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1 rifolium acetosurn corniculatum 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 1 1- 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. STKICTA, or O. CORNICULATA, to both of which it has 
been refeiTed. I have therefore been obliged to employ a new 
specific designation. 
2. Oxalis bipunctata. j Bipnuctated PF'ood- 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, Bot. 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 
membranaceous, 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. 
