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Much branclied slirubs ; brandies slender. Leaves small, linear. ^^jf^^'| 

 spiked or racemcd, often polygamous, Cah/x 5-partite. Pehds 0. Vm 

 unilateral. AS'ta?»e«A* 10-20, inserted within the disk. Ovary ovoid, closea 

 at the top, 3-beaked ; ovules many, on 3 placentas. Berry many-seeded. 

 DiSTRiB. Species 2, a Spanish and the following. / ',' 



1. O. baccatus, Delih Fl. jEg, 15, t. 31, f. 1 ; leaves fleshy scattered 

 linear-spathulate, racemes terminal, flowers minute. J, MulL Jfonog.^^j 

 .Bom. FL Orient I A^'i.', Griff, It Notes 228,1^0. '208. : , 



SiNDH, Vicary &c. — Distrib. Westwards to Syria and Egypt. / , 



Shrubby, 6-12 ft.; branches g]abrous, leafless when old. Leaves \-lh in.; ^*'i"^?^ 

 minute or 0. Bacemcs rigid; flowers yellowish, 1-2-sexual. Stamens 10-12. -oer j 



small, while. >i5eerf5 few, large. 



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Order XIII. VIOIiACE.S:. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) ' 



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Herbs or shrubs. 



Leaves alternate, entire or pinnatisect, stipula^- 

 Flowers regular or irregular, 2-bracteolate. S€2)als 5, persistent, ^*i? ^^ • 

 unecLual, imbricate in bud. Petals 5, hypogynous, equal or unequal, ^WP ' 

 cate or contorted in bud. Stamens 5, filaments short, broad; anthers ir 

 or connate, connective broad, produced beyond the cells. Oyaiy ^^f^' 

 1 -celled ; style sinijjle, stigma capitate tnincate or cupular entire or ^^ j^' 

 ovules many, on 3 parietal placentas, ariatropous. Fruit a 3-valved ^*P^^ ' 

 rarely a berry. >S'^ef?5 small, albumen fleshy; embryo straight, cotyleci 

 flat.— DiSTKiB. Genera 21, species 240; natives of temp, and trop. regions- 



Corolla irregular J lower petal dissimilar, ,a^<^^"'' 

 Capsule locuKcidal. 



Tribe I. 

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Violeae. 



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Sepals produced at the base I.Viola. 



Sepals not produced at the base 2. loNiDit^^f- 



Tribe II. Alsodeieae. Corolla regular. Staminodes 0. Fi-uit a berrj" 



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or loculicidal capsule. 



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1. VIOZiA, Linn. 



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Herbs, rarely shrubby below. Flowers, on 1-, rarely 2-flowered pedu" ^j 

 often dimorphic, some large petalled which ripen few seeds, others ^^ 

 petalled or apetalous and very prolific. Sepals produced at the ^^'^^' /^^yn 

 erect or spreading, lower largest, spurred or saccate at the base, ^j ^^jg 

 connate, connectives of two lower often spurred at the base, l^^y'^ ^ ri^,y 

 or truncate, tip straight or oblique, stigma obtuse lobed or cnpul^^- ^U 

 side 3-valved. Seeds ovoid or globose. — Distrib. Species about ai , 

 temp, regions. '■: 



The Pansy or Heartsease {Viola tricolor) occurs occasionally in India, aS fti^ 

 from cultivation. 



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* Stigma obliquely 2-lobed, not beaked : lobes short, spreading. 



:, 1. y. blflora, L.; glabrous or pubescent, leaves rejoiforn), s^ i y^ 

 ovate or oblong, flowers yellow, sepals linear-obtuse, spur very sli^ 



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