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infundibuliformis, 2 — 2 - 5 cm. longa, petalorum lamina apice rotundata, 
marginibus apiceque parce pilosis, rosea ; filamenta glabra vel puberula, 
interioribus nonnunquam dilatatione vel minuto dente ornatis ; ovarium 
apice vero pilosum, 0 - 3 cm. longum, stylis glabris vel puberulis, pilis 
paucis longis sparsis albis. 
Nearest to 0. collma, E. and Z., but distinguished by the differently 
shaped leaflets which are somewhat falcate when closed, and not 
wavy-crenate. 
Cape Province: Kalahari Region; Barkly West Div., Daniel’s 
Kuil, fl. March, Rev. G. M. Lawson ( Bolus Herb. No. 13378); Kuruman 
Div., Lupane in the Langeberg, ca. 3800 ft., fl. Apl., A. W. Rogers 
(Bolus Herb. No. 12565). 
O. argillacea, Bob f., 0. angustae proxime accedit sed foliolis circuitu sub- 
dissimilibus brevioribusque et corolla fiava. 
Herba 5 — 9 cm. alta, pilosa, pilis longis, pluri-cellularibus, pellucidis, 
albis ; bulbus non visus ; caulis vix, vel ad 4'5 cm., exsertus, dense 
pilosis, 2 — 4 squamis, ovatis, obtusis, donatus; folia 3-foliolata, valde 
copiosa, ad apicem congregata, petiolis basi dilatatis, 13 — 3 cm. longis, 
foliolis lineari-cuneatis, acute emarginatis, segmentis rotundatis, non- 
nunquam apice dilatatis recurvatisque, supra glabris, 08 — 15 cm. longis, 
apice 025 — 03 cm. latis; pedunculi 1-fl., basi dilatati, 175 — 3'5 cm. 
longi, dimidio superiore bibracteolati, bracteolis alternis vel sub- 
oppositis ; calyx 06 — 0'65 cm. longus, segmentis lineari-lanceolatis, 
acuminatis ; corolla infundibuliformis, vel subhypocrateriformis, glabra, 
aureo-flava, 2 — 3'2 cm. longa, fauce 0'6 — 11 cm. diam., apice 2 — 2‘5 cm. 
diam., petalorum lamina rotundata; filamenta parcissime glanduloso- 
pubescentia, e basi Ol cm. indivisa; ovarium glabrum, manifeste 
stipitatum, 015 cm. longum, stylis glabris. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Clanwilliam Div., near 
Augsburg, 500 — 900 ft., fl. Apl. — July, C. L. Leipoldt, 700. 
Very near 0. angusta, Sond., from which it differs in the shorter 
and somewhat differently shaped leaflets and in the yellow corolla. 
Dr Leipoldt described it as being very local, and growing, generally 
socially in clumps, only in hard Karroo clay soil. 
O. copiosa, Bol. f., 0. Smithii, var. a latilobae accedit sed foliis floribusque 
magis numerosis, foliolis multo minoribus, lobis brevioribus et corolla 
fiava distinguitur. 
Herba 105 — 125 cm. alta; bulbus non visus; caulis non exsertus, 
foliis squamiformibus, bulbillos in axillis ferentibus, donatis ; folia 
3-foliolata, plurima, petiolis tenuibus, omnino glabris, ad 4 cm. longis, 
foliolis polymorphis, saepissime obcordato-bilobis, supra punctatis vel 
laevibus, infra punctatis, omnino glabris, ad 0'5 cm. longis, 0 / cm, 
