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ovarium dimidio superiore pilosurn, 02 cm. longum, stylis parcissime 
minuteque puberulis. 
Cape Province : Karroo or South-Western Region ; Prince Albert 
Div., near Prince Albert or on the Zwartberg, H. July, A. M. Tugwell 
(Bolus Herb. No. 13379). 
Nearest to 0. imbricata, E. and Z., var. ft, from which it is 
distinguished by the smaller and polymorphic leaflets, which are 
conspicuously punctate on each side and less hairy, the externally 
pilose corolla, the less hairy calyx with obtuse segments, and by the 
, inner stamens being toothless. 
0. petiolulata, Bol. f., 0. decipienti accedit sed foliolis conspicue petiolulatis, 
pagina inferiore nigro-callosis, callis una serie circum marginem 
dispositis differt. 
Herba 3'2 — 4'7 cm. alta ; bulbus nec visus ; caulis non exsertus, 
dense foliosus; folia 3-foliolata, petiolis glabris, 07 — 15 cm. longis, 
foliolis subrotundatis, mediis subacutis vel obtusis, lateralibus apice 
rotundatis, petiolulatis, petiolulis ad O'l cm. longis, supra glabris, 
minute punctatis, infra manifeste punctatis, nigro-callosis, callis una 
serie circum marginem dispositis, 03 — O' 6 cm. longis, 0'2 — 0'6 cm. 
latis; pedunculi 1-fi, glabri, ebracteolati, 0'6 — 2'2 cm. longi ; calyx 
,J '* 0'35 — 0'5 cm. longus, segmentis oblongo-linearibus, subacutis, apicem 
infra bicallosis, callis subpurpureis, breviter ciliatis, praecipue dimidio 
superiore ; corolla infundibuliformis, glabra, 2 — 2'3 cm. longa, petal- 
orum lamina obovata, apice rotundata, purpurea ; filamenta glabra ; 
ovarium supra medium pilosurn, 0'2 cm. longum, stylis infra medium 
pilosis, superne glabris. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Clanwilliam div. near 
Wupperthal, 1700 ft., and near Krakadouw, 3000 ft., H. Oct., H. Bolus, 
8952. 
Nearest 0. decipiens, Schltr., but differs in the leaflets being very 
conspicuously petiolulate, and in the calli on the undersurface of the 
leaflets being confined to a marginal border. 
0. Maderi, Bol. f., 0. Meyeri accedit sed foliolis non obovatis, petiolis longi- 
oribus, corolla splendide flava differt. 
Herba 16 cm. alta, pilosa, pilis longis, pluri-cellularibus, pellucidis, 
albis; bulbus non visus; caulis non vel vix exsertus; folia 3-foliolata, 
petiolis 4'5 — 14 cm. longis, foliolis oblongo-ovalibus, obtusis, utrinque 
nervis prominentibus, medio nervo marginibusque interdum basin 
versus parcissime pilosis, aliter glabris, 1'4 — 3'2 cm. longis, 0'65 1 5 cm. 
latis; pedunculi 1-flL, 12'5 cm. longi, dimidio superiore bibracteolati, 
bracteolis alternis vel oppositis, 0'8 cm. longis; calyx 1 cm. longus, 
segmentis lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis, pilosis ciliatisque, cm II, 
