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OXALIS floribunda. 
M uny-flowered Ovalis. 
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DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA, 
Nat. ord. OXALIDER. 
OXALIS. Supra, vol. 2. fol. 117. 
§, 2. Corniculate, caulibus basi non bulbosis herbacets (rarissime suffru- 
ticosis) foliosis, pedunculis rarids unifloris sepiits bi- aut multifloris, folis 
palmato-trifoliatis, foliolis omnibus sessilibus obcordatis. 
O. floribunda; caule erecto herbaceo multifloro, foliolis cuneato-obcordatis 
petiolisque pilosis, sepalis obtusis tomentosis apice bilineatis, stigmatibus 
stamina excedentibus. 
O. floribunda. Lehmann in litteris. 
Caulis strictus, ramosus, sepé sesquipedalis, ramis divaricatis, carnosis, 
teretibus. Foliola cuneato-obcordata, utrinque petiolique pilosa. Pedunculi 
divaricati, multiflort, pilost. Pedicelli filiformes, pubescentes. Calyx cum 
pedicello continuus, tomentosus, viridis, sepalis oblongis, obtusis, apice coccineo- 
bilineolatis. Corolla rosea, fauce viridt, Petala obtusa, subcrenata. Styli 
sepalorum longitudine, stamina excedentes. 
Sent to the Horticultural Society by Professor Lehmann, 
of Hamburgh, in 1827, with the name here adopted. Its 
native country is not known to us; it probably is South 
America. 
If grown in a pot, in a cool greenhouse, it flourishes 
exceedingly, soon acquiring the height of a foot or 18 
inches, and producing in great profusion loose bunches of 
rose-coloured flowers, which are placed upon the end of 
peduncles diverging from the main stem at nearly right 
angles, and giving the whole plant the air of a vegetable 
chandelier of many branches. 
; Stem upright, branched, often a foot and a half high, with 
divaricating, fleshy, round branches. Leajlets crenate-obcor- 
date, hairy on each side, as are also the petioles. Peduncles 
