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OXALIS Plumieri. — 
Plumier’s Shrubby Owalis. 
DEE 
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. OXAWDER. Br. 
OXALIS. L. Supra vol. 2. fol. 117. 
O. Plumieri; caule erecto folioso, pedunculo umbellifero quadrifloro folio- 
rum longitudine, foliis ternatis ovatis, foliolo intermedio longé petiolato. 
Willd. sp. pl. 2. 801, ; 
Qxys lutea frutescens Trifolii bituminosi facie. Plum. cat. pl. p.2. Raii 
hist. 3. p. 548..No.8. 
QO. caule fruticoso, foliis ternatis. Plum. ic, t. 213, f. 1. 
O. frutescens. Linn. sp. pl. 624. Thunb. diss. de Oxal. p. 22. And, cat. 
Vine. in Act. Soc. Art. et Scient. 25. p. 208. 
O. Plumieri. Jacq. oxal. p. 23. ; 
Caulis erectus, lignosus. Ramuli stricti, cum petiolo pubescentes, tere- 
tes. Folia stricta, ternata, petiolis cum caule ad basin articulatis. Foliola 
oblonga, plana, retusa, glabriuscula, subciliata, cum petiolo communi arti- 
culata, intermedio majore pedicellato, lateralibus sessilibus. Cymi peduncu- 
lati, foliis equales aut longiores, pedunculo piloso, Involucrum diphyllum, 
foliolis parvis, subulato-ovatis. Flores parvi, pedicellati, ad basin articu- 
lati, lutei, ante anthesin nutantes, post anthesin erectt. Calyx glaberrimus, 
sepalis ovato-oblongis. Corolla subcampanulata, limbo patente; petalis pla- 
nis obovatis, ad faucem aurantiaco bilineatis. Stamina tubi longitudine, 
basin versus connata ; series elatior filamentis pubescentibus, rectis, brevior 
glabris subpatentibus. Anthere parve, lutee, omnes (ut videtur) fertiles. 
Stigmata inter stamina inferiora, sub antheras, prominentia, simplicia, mar- 
gine superiore exarato. 
The introduction of this shrubby kind of Oxalis is ow-. 
ing to the attention of Mr. James M°Crae, who brought it, 
with many other curious plants, from St. Vincent's. Our 
drawing was made at the Comtesse de Vandes’ garden at 
Bayswater. It is a pretty plant, flowering all the year 
round, and easily cultivated in small pots of peat and 
loam. It requires the heat of a stove. 
We have compared our plant with wild specimens from 
the West Indies, in the Herbaria of Mr. Brown and Mr. 
Lambert ; and we perceive no difference between them and 
the cultivated plant, beyond a greater degree of hairiness 
upon the wild specimens. 
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