ovata, quinquangularis, acuta, membranacea, glabra. Semina plerumque duo in quovis loculo, 
arillala, ovata, acuta, rugosa, fusca. (Sapigny et Jacquin.') 
Creseit in America, torrida prope Caracas et in Gujana. 
Fröret in culdario per totam aestatcm. Q, 
67 . Oxalis hedysaroides Kanth. 
O. lignescens, tota glabra, caule erecto, foliis ternatis, foliolis ovato - oblongis obtusis vel 
emarginatis subtus glaucescentibus, pedunculis apice bifidis multifloris^ 
Oxalis hedysaroides Kunth. I. c. p. 192. n. 2J. De Cand. Frodr. 1 . p. 6gi. n. 3. 
Oxalis Barrelieri herb. Willd. 
O. Flumieri Sieber herb. TVIartinic. / 
Radix tenuis, librosa, fusca. Caulis erectus, ramosus, basi teres, sursum angulatus, glaber, 
crassitie pennae corvinae vel crassior, sublignosus et medulla ampla farctus, viridi - purpureus 
sursum viridis, ramis sparsis simplicibus, junioribus puberulis. Folia sparsa, alterna vel sae- 
pius subopposita, petiolata, ternata; foliola ovato - oblonga, acutiuscula vel obtusa (emarginata 
Kunth ), basi rotundata vel cuneata, integerrima vel nonnunquam obsolete repanda, utrinque 
glabra, supra laete viridia subtus glaucescentia, tenera; lateralia brevissime petiolata petiolis gla- 
bris basi articulatis ; terminale parum majus 12 - i 5 lineas longum, G- 10 lineas latum; peiioli 
tenues, semiteretes, glabri vel tenuiter pubescentes, basi articulati, — 3 pollicares; rachis cum 
petiolo continua, 2-4 lineas longa. Pedunculi axillares, subteretes, stricti, glabri vel tenuiter 
pubescentes, erecto - patentes, apice racemoso - bifidi, 2-4 pollices longi. Flores io - 12 in pe¬ 
dunculi divisionibus racemosi, secundi, solitario in dichotomiae angulo, nutantes; pedicelli teretes, 
glabri, basi bractea lineari - lanceolata acuta ciliata muniti, supra basin articulati, 2-3 lineas 
longi. Calycis foliola ovato - lanceolata, obtusiuscula, integerrima, glabra, viridia. Corolla in- 
fundibuliformis, flava, tubo aurantiaco; petala ut in congeneribus margine connexa, obovato - cu¬ 
neata, apice rotundata, glabra. Staminum ßlamenla basi monadelpha, compressa, sursum lineari- 
filiformia; alterna longiora apicem versus barbata (glabra Kunth), stylos 8uperantia, reliqua stylis 
breviora, glabra. Antherae ovatae, flavae. Ovarium globosum, pentagonum, glabrum. Styli 
filiformes, divergentes, barbati, virides. Stigmata capitato - bifida, glabra, flavescentia. Capsula 
longitudine calycis, globosa vel ovata, quinqueloba, membranacea, glabra, loculis mono - disper- 
mis. Semina magnitudine circiter grani Sinapis, ovata, acutiuscula, compressiuscula, subreti- 
culato - scrobiculata, fusca. Reliqua congencrum. 
Creseit in Brasiliae apricis montanis prope Bio de Janeiro (cl. Eques de IVTartius et Eeyritli), 
nee non in Peruviae Andibus loeis frigidis vel temperatis ( cl. de Humboldt) et in 
insula Martinica. (Sieber.) 
Flor et Ftovembri. t) (v. s. specc. brasil., peruv. et martinic.) 
68 . Oxalis polymorpha. -J-. Tab. III. 
O. caule fruticoso ramoso pubescente, foliis ternatis, foliolis ovatis vel ovato -rhombeis 
pubescentibus, terminali longe petiolato maximo basi attenuato acuto vel acuminato, la- 
teralibus petiolatis multo minoribus basi vel cuqeatis vel quoque truncatis acutis vel ob¬ 
tusis, pedunculis apice dicliotomo-bi — quadrifidis multifloris, floribus polygamis. 
Radix lignosa, fibrosa, fusca, fibris tortis filiformibus. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, semi — 
tripedalis, subsimplex vel apicem versus ramosus, ramis sparsis tortuosis, basi teres, nudus, cor-t 
tice cinereo-fuscescente glabro obductus, pennae corvinae vel cygneae quoque crassitie, sursum 
petiolorum cicatricibus prominentibus notatus, angulatus, molliter pubescens. Folia sparsa, ter- 
