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XIII. viOLACE-E. (Hook. f. & l^homs.) 



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many-seeded. V. Wightiana var. glabra, Thwaites Enum. 20. Y- Noto- 

 niana, WdL Cat 1449. V. Metziana, Jlo/ien. PI. Uxsicc. No. 1501. 



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, Temperate Himalaya, from Nipal to Bhotan, alt,, 5-10,000 ft. ; Khasia hills, 

 alt. 4-6000 ft. PuLNEY and Nilghiri Mrs. ; Ceylon, alt. 6-7000 ft.— Disteib. Javai" 

 Bootstockj shnder or stout. Stems 1-14 in., usually long and trailing. Leaves 



Var.1. dislans proper ; stipules nearly entire. V. serpens, Wall. Cat ^^j\.}^. 



of FL lud.). ? V. painiaris, Buck in DC, Prodr. i. 298, Dm Prodr. 205.— >ipa». 



Khasia hills. " ''' 



Var. 2. fimhriata; stipules lacerate or fimbriate. — Sikkim, . "' 



Var. 3. acaulis; stemless, stipules fimbriate. — Sikkim, alt. 7-9000 ft. - 



*** Stigma very oblique or quite lateral, often minute and perforated. 



6. V. serpens. Wall in RoxK FL Lid. Ed. Wall ii. 449 {not. of Gat\ and 

 in DC. Prodr. i. 296 ; hirsute or glabrous, stolons or stems usually long leaiy 

 and flowering, leaves ovate-cordate obtuse or acute crenate-serrate, ^*^PV^ 

 toothed or fimbriate, spur saccate, sepals acute, capsules globose few-seedea. 

 lioyle 111 74, t. 18, f. 1 ; W. <k A. Prodr. 32. V. Wightiana, var. pubescens, 

 Thwaites Enum. 20. V. pilosa, Blume, Bijd. 57. ^ 



Moist woods, &c., throughout the Temperate Himalaya, Khasia hilt^, ^^^"^^^ 

 and NiLGHiRi Mrs., and Ceylon, alt. 5-7000 ft. ? Moulmein, PamA.— Ujstrib. Java, 



China. /, 



Leaves 1-2 in., sinus open or closed, shallow or deep. Flowers from the mam s em 

 {-\ in. diam. ; those from the axils of the cauline leaves small or minute. ^^-Pf" ' 

 often pubescent.— As variable in habit and foliage as V. distans, from which the ^f'S^^^ 

 alone di-stinguishes the glabrous forms when these are not in fruit, and we susp*^ct 

 these differences are sexual, the stigmas of the smaller fertile flowers ^PP^'*^*"^ ^er. 

 more truncate than those of the large flowers. The N. VV. India si)ecimens ^^^, . ' 

 stemmed than those from moister districts. 7. Griffithiana, Boiss., of Affg^^P^^^^ 

 difiers in the more cylindric spur and swollen style above with rounded top, and lo ^ 

 more evident beak. V. hirta, L., difiers chiefly in the latter character and odi 

 sepals. p ' fj^' 



Var. 1. glabra; glabrous and very stoloniferous. ? V. Hamiltoniana, Don ^^ ' 



Var. 2. canescens, Wall Cat.:i442 {sp.), and in Boxb. Fl, Ind, Ed, Wall "/^J- 

 often stemless, hoary or pubescent. V. Wightiana, Wall. Cat. ^^21. 

 Wall Cat. 1448. V. giifliihiana, BoUs ; Fl Orient, i. 456. 



Var. 3. confma, BeiUL Fl Ilongk, 20 {sp.) ; stemless or nearly so 

 V. W ightiana, Wt. Ic. t. 943. V. aspera, Qing. in DC. Prodr. i. 295. 



V. Bojleana, 



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7. V, odorata, Z. ; glabrate or pubescent, stem 0, stolons slender, Ij^^j 

 tufted broadly ovate-cordate obtuse crenate, stipules entire or ^P^nj^ 

 sepals very obtuse, spur nearly straight short subcylindric, style i^^' 

 above, stigma decurved. Boiss. Fl. Orient. 458, (Sweet Violet.) rS 



Kashmir, alt. 5-6000 ft, Falconer, T.T,— Distrib. Europe, N. Africa, N. an?^ 



^ Bootstoch stout Stems very short or 0. Leaves (in the Kashmir plant; K^^i 

 diam., tip rounded, nearly glabrous ; stipules subu>ate-lanceolate. Sepals rouu 



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