stemless; leaves on long glabrous or pilose petioles; leaflets obcordate-bilobed, the lobes divaricate, rounded, glabrous, ciliated; scape twice as long as the leaves, umbellately 8–12-flowered; pedicels and calyx glandularly downy; sepals oblong, obtuse, callous, thrice as short as the corolla. Near the preceding. 6–8 inches long. Leaflets 6–8 lines wide, 5–6 lines long; bifid nearly to the middle and much more wedge-shaped than the leaflets of O. purpurata, which are rounded. Flowers half-inch long. Sepals with yellow calli, thickish. Limb of the corolla purple.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Shady and rocky places near Caledon River, Burke, Zey.! 271. Somerset, Atherstone! (Herb. Hook., Sond.)
