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Oxalis (To the species and varieties)

To the species and varieties described on pp. 540-2, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

O. catharinensis (Santa Catharina). fl. white, greenish at base; petals 1/2in. to 3/4in. long, narrow cuneate-oblong; peduncles terete, unbellately four to fifteen-flowered. l., leaflets three, triangular, sub-sessile, 2 1/2in. broad, cuneate at base, truncate at apex, green and glabrous above, paler or purplish and minutely hairy beneath; petioles 2in. to 8in. long. Rhizome branching, covered with fleshy scales. South Brazil, 1887.

O. imbricata flore-pleno (imbricated, double-flowered). fl. of a deep rose-colour, "as double as the most double of Chinese Primulas" (W. Watson), nodding; peduncles hairy. l. hairy. Port Elizabeth. 1886. (G. C. ser. iii., vol. ii., p. 681.)