3^2 VIOLEJE. 



compresso-membranacea;, loculis breviores. Processus terminales crocei ; in antheris duabus superioribus 

 acuminato-subulati, adsccndentes, Ioculis longiores ; in anthcris tribus inferioribus apice rotundati, loculis vix 

 Jongiores. Ovarium ( fig. 6. ) ovato-conicum, glabrum, in stylum desinens. Stylus subulatiuwadsccndens, 

 glaber, stamina duplo superans, calycc parum brevior. Stigma obtusum. Capsula (fig. 7. 10.) oblonga, 

 acuta, trigona, glabra, fusca, calycc persistente inclusa ipsoque parum brevior, magnitudine grani piperis, 

 unilocularis, trivalvis, disperma ; valvis (Jig. 11) concavis, membranaceis, mcdio seminifcris. Semina 

 {fig. la. 10.) subrotundo-ovata, acutiuscula, la:via, glabra, albida, magnitudine grani sinapis; suppctentia 

 vacua. Integumentum cxterius crustaceum, fragile ; interius membranaceum, fuscum. 



6. VIOLA STIPULAIUS. 



V. fruticosa; scandens; glabra; ramis quadrangularibus ; foliis subrotundo-ovatis, acutis , 

 leviter cordatis, argute serralis; stipulis dcntato-ciliatis; calycibus acutis. 

 Viola stipularis Cav. ic. 6. p. i\. t. 53i.f. 2. 

 Viola capillaris Pers. syn. 1 . p. 256. 

 Crescit in Begno Novo-Granatensi?. £ * 



Caulis scandcns (?); ramis quadrangularibus (?), glabris. Folia alterna, petiolata, subrotundo-ovata, 

 acuta, leviter cordata, argute serrata, reticulato-vcnosa, membranacea, utrinque glabra, 9-10 lineas longa. 

 Petioli sesquilineam longi, glabri. Stipilx petiolares, lanceolata:, dentato-ciliata:, ciliis elongatis, glabra:, 

 eiecta;, quatuor lincas longa;, persistentcs. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, uniflori, filiformes, glabri, superne 

 bibracteati; bracteis oppositis, linearibus, acuminatis, glabris, vix duas lineas longis, persistentibus. Calyx 

 profunde quinquepartitus, glaber, viridis, corolla brevior, persistens , foliolis lanceolatis, acutis, integerri- 

 rnis, membranaceis, planis, basi productis ibique obtusis, trincrviis, glabris, suba_*qualibus ; duobus superiori- 

 bus ob calcar intcrpositum distantibus. Petala quinque, glabra, inasqualia; superius subrotundo-obovatum, 

 apice mucronatum, flabellato-nervosum, basi carinatum et saccato-calcaratum; calcare brevissimo, rotun- 

 dato; petala duo lateralia vix breviora, inaiquilatera, ovato-oblonga, obtusa, flabellato-nervosa ; duo inferiora 

 minora, elliptica, apice rotundata, basi angustata, flabellato-nervosa. Antherj; quinquc, hypogyna:, sessiles, 

 conniventes, oblonga;, complanata:, biloculares, apice membranacecc, albidaj, glabra, corolla breviores, lon- 

 gitudinaliter intus deliiscentes; dua: supcriores dorso appendiculata;; appcndiccs lata:, membranace#, basi 

 rotundata;, apice truncata:. virescentes, glabra;, approximata:, in caicare recondita;, loculis parum brevjores ; 

 processus terminales tenuissime membranacej, flavidi, ovati, in autheris tribus inferioribus apice rotundati. 

 antherabreviorcs; in autheris duabus superioribus apice acuminato-subuiati, curvati, longitudine anthera;. 

 Ovarium superum. ovato-conicum , in stylum desinens , glabrum, unilocularc ; placenta; tres parietales- 

 Ovula circiter 12, subrotunda. Stylus adscendens, subulatus, glabcr, apice subuncinatus, longitudine sta- 

 minum. Stigma acutum, petalum superius spectans. Capsula ( nonnisi unica suppctens ) parva, magnitudine 

 grani cannabis, obliqua, subelliptica, trigona, stylo coronata, membranacea, unilocularis, trivalvis ; valvis 

 medio placentiferis. Semina plura minuta abortiva; unicum perfectum maturum, subrotundo-cllipticum. 

 utrinque obtusum, albidum, punctis minutis fuscis irregularibus confluentibus conspersum, magnitudine 

 grani siDapis.lNTEGUME.vruM exterius crustaceum, durum; interius tenuissimum, endospermio adnatum, fus- 

 cesccns. Endospermium semini conforme, carnosum, albidum. Embryo in axi endospermii ipsoque brevior, 

 spathulatus. inversus. virescens. Cotyledones plana*. Radicula teres , supera, longitudine cotyledonum. 



