The whole plant is singularly fleshy. The stem, when 
the plant is young, is concealed below the ground, as was 
the case when the annexed drawing was made; as the 
plant grows older, the stem elongates upwards, and finally 
assumes, when destitute of leaves, the form of a divided 
fleshy toothed branch, the teeth indicating the points 
whence the leaves fell. Leaves dark-green, very fleshy ; 
petioles round, smooth, rather glaucous, pink at the base, 
manifestly articulated with the tubercles of the stem; 
leaflets ternate, subsessile, obovate, emarginate, very fleshy, 
paler beneath, where they are beautifully frosted, with no 
appearance of red. Scapes somewhat branched, two or 
more flowered, a little taller than the leaves, one flower 
being seated on a long stalk, with two bracteole at the 
base, and appearing early, the other having only one bractea 
at the base, and being much later. Sepals 5, dark green, 
veiny, triangular, obtuse, a little shorter than the tube. 
Corolla bright yellow, with a darker hue at the eye, 
which is slightly striated. Petals concave, rounded, obtuse 
at apex, sometimes. toothletted. Stamens 10, of which 
5 are as long as the tube, and a little longer than the 
styles, with their filaments toothed at the back, and 
5 shorter than the styles, without denticulations of the 
filaments. 
NOTE. 
We omitted to notice, at fol. 1052, the near affinity which exists between 
the Oxalis tenera of Sprengel, then figured, and the O. lobata of the 
Botanical Magazine. These two plants are very similar, although obviously 
different; but as the letter-press that accompanies.O. lobata is not sufficiently 
explanatory of the structure of that plant, we cannot tell how far the 
resemblance of the species goes beyond external similitude. 
J. L. 
