( 1776 ) 

 Viola altaica. Tartarian Heart Vease. 



Chess and Order, 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



SyNGENESIA MoNOGAMIA. Z//JV-.V, 



Generic Character. 



€al. 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, irregularis, postice cornuta. 

 Anth. cohaerentes. Caps, supera, 3-valvis, 1-locularis. Flos 

 in Europceis semper inversus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Viola altaica; caulescens, stipulis dentato-pinnatindis sub- 

 lyratis, foliis ovalibus crenatis in petiolum decurrentibus, 

 petalis undulatis. 



Viola altaica ; caulescens glabra ; foliis crassiusculis, ovatis 

 ovalibusve crenatis ; floribus inversis undulatis : petalis 

 rotundatis, transverse latioribus, subreniformibus. Ker 

 in Bot. Regist. 54. 



Viola altaica. Pallas Herb, apnd Lambert. 



Descr. Stems very short. Leaves alternate, roundish 

 oval, crenate, on long channelled petioles. Stipules opposite, 

 deeply toothed on the sides, with a broad very obtuse termina- 

 tion. Peduncle axillary, solitary, scape-like, square, much 

 longer than the stem, stout, upright, incurved at the apex, 

 a little below which is a small pair of scale-like bractes eared 

 at the base. Segments of the calyx obtuse at both ends, ob- 

 soletely denticulate. Corolla large, pale yellow ; petals nearly 

 round, undulated, overlapping one another ; the three su- 

 perior ones (lowermost in position by the inversion of the 

 flower) have a deeper yellow spot near the base, from which 

 proceed several unequal blue rays: the two inferior petals 

 are without spot or ray. The spur or nectarium proceeding 



from 



