18G XIII. vioLACEiE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [lonidhm. 



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Abundant from Bundelkund and Agra, to Bengal and Cetlox.— Distrib. Tro- 

 pical Asia, Africa, and Australia. i'^^' i *n 



Very variable, 6-12 in., perennial ; brancbes diffuse, woody. Leaves U-2 by j^h J"'* 

 8ubsessile; stipules subulate, gland-tipped. Ilowers red; pedicels shorter than me 

 leaves.. Fetals variaide, 4 oblong acute or mucvonate, the 5lh with a long daw, an 

 large oval or orbicular limb. /S'eecZs striate. 



2. I. ramosissimum, Thwaites Emm. 21 ; leaves closely imbricate 

 narrow-linear quite entire glaucous, Mowers solitary, ''S . ?' ^ 



Ceylon, banks of the Mahawelliganga at Havagam, Thicaites. - -■ , , 



Shrubby, suberect, 6-8 in., branches suberect. Leaves 1-U i^-7 n^^cronate, veinies^^ 

 margins recurved. Flowers as in J. suffruticusum, . . ^ ~ 



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3. AIiSODEZil., Thouars. 





Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite), disticlious ; secondaiy 

 nerves often numerous and parallel. iStijmhs rigid. Flowers small, ax ^ 

 lary or terminal, solitary fascicled cymose or racemose, regular ; P^^"^ .i 

 witli many bracts. ISejxiU 5, subequal, rigid. Petals 5, subequal, sessiu|. 

 Stamens 5, inserted inside or on an annular disk ; connective P^^*^^? . .fyje 

 a long or short often broad membranous appendage. Ovai^y ovoid : ^y 

 straight, stigma terminal ; ovules few or many. Capsule 3-yalvea, 

 seeded. Seeds glabrous in the E. Ind. species.— Distrib. Species about ^, 



chiefly tropical American. 



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Sect. I. Doryctandra, Ilassk (Gen.). Stamens exserted, filaments 

 slender; anthers cohering in a cone. ' . 



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1. A. Roxburghil, Wall. Cat. 7189 (Pentaloba?) ; branchlets V"^^^ 

 cent on one side, leaves glabrous small elliptic or cuneate lanceolate o 

 subcrenate perforate at the nerve axils beneath, flowers fascicled glap 

 Am. in Mag.Zool andBot. ii. 343. Vareca heteroclita, Boxb. FLlria.i. 

 Doryctandra Kuxburghii, Hassk in Iletzia i. 12C. 



OuDE, Genl Martin; Sjlhet, Wallich ; A^damx^s, Kurz. , V beneath, 



A small shrub ; branchlets compressed. Leaves 1-1 4 by 4-f in., sessile, P**'® -p^^^^^r* 



nerves few, venules obsolete. Stq^uUs I in., subulate from a broad base. -^^^^lute. 



subsessile, y^^ in. diam., white. Sepals unequal, obtuse. Fetals linear, tips ^ ^^^^^ 



I>isk 10 toothed. Filaments glabrous ; anthers white, narrow-linear, almost ^^, ^J.^^g; 



the filaments, base of cells tomeutose; appendage oblong, obtuse. Ovary g 



style filiform, pubescent. Capsule I- few-seeded. 



Sect. II. Stamens included ; anthers free. Disk cnpular. 



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* Ovary and style glabrous. ., ^ ,. 



2. A. ben^alensis, Wall, in Trans. Med. andPhys. Soc. <^^/^'7g^^^^ 

 glabrous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate serrulate, nerve-axils beneath ^ -eyg 





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Su.HET, Wallich^ Crriffith ^^ AiavA^XTHBj Kurz. ^ ' Volei'"' 



A shrub or small tree? Leaves 3-5 by 1|-2J in., shining, tip obtuse ; pe"^^ ^^i^ 

 Stipules 4 i^M narrow lanceolate. Peduncles ^^4 ^"m 1-flowered, glabrous ^^y 

 toIdus; bracts minute, basal, ovate, subacute. Flowers J in. diam., g'^^^^j^ ' j^ntjiiri 

 brtiad, ovate, J the length of the oblon^^-ovate petals. Disk thick, S^lobea. 

 glabrous, oblong. Cajyside J in., quite glabrous, 3-4-8eedcd.. . f . .. v*^^'^ ; 



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