traduced in 1793 by Rear-admiral William Bligh, in the 



Providence. 



Professor Jacquin having described in the specific phrase 

 to dijffbrme the column of the flower as equal to the corolla, 

 and the labellum as obcordate ; Dr. Swartz has had the 

 precaution to rename our plant, subjoining Jacquin's merely 

 as a probable synonym. In his general description, how- 

 ever, the former will be found to speak of the column, only 

 as almost equal to the corolla. We have reviewed attentively 

 what each of them has said of his subject, and inspected 

 both specimens of their plants in the Banksian Herbarium 

 (where Jacquin's indeed is flowerless), and are persuaded of 

 the specific identity of the two. 



The corolla, when full blown, by a contortion of the lower 

 part of the germen which supports it, is always resupinate, 

 that is, with the directions of the upper and lower halves 



pean Violets. G 

 pedicle about an inch 



of its plar 



together with 



high, cylindrical, tapering downwards, prominently 



ribbed, unilocular, with three parietal placentiform recep 



tacles, attaching numerous ovula. Corolla superior, five- 



parted, segments lanceolate, equal in length, varicosely 

 nerved, two inner very narrow and linear. Labellum (Nectary 

 Linn.) placed between the two outer lateral segments of the 

 corolla, which it rather exceeds and differs from in form 

 and consistence, conjoined for the length of its narrow up- 

 right turbinately tubular spurless unguis with the column 

 in front; lamina broad, patent, cordate, rounded, transversely 

 broader, conspicuously veined, 3-lobed, two lateral lobes 

 large, rounded, descending far down the sides of the column ; 

 middle one small, cleft into two blunt flat lobules; a straight 

 prominent nerve passes to the apex from the mouth at the 

 base, on each side of which is placed a raised green-coloured 

 glandule. Column (or gynandrous style) upon the summit 

 of the germen, upright, semicylindrical, one third or more 

 shorter than the corolla, edge of the summit scarcely raised 

 beyond the anther. Stamen an anther inserted nearest the 

 nether side of the summit of the column, lid-shaped, move- 

 able, deciduous, brown, hemispherical; cellules^, parallel, 

 convergent, standing on the inner front of the lid-shaped 

 receptacle, and immersed in the cavity at the summit of 

 the column. Pollen-masses 4, globular, compact, smooth, pa- 

 rallel, each tailed by a short granulated thread, by which it 



becomes fixed to the stigma, when the case of the anther 





