Viola, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 649 
A small ase; received into this garden from Generel 
Martin at Lucknow, Blossoms in October. 
Stem short and slender; bark smooth, ash-coloured, 
Branches bifarious, slender, all spreading nearly horizontal- 
ly. Leaves alternate, bifarious, sessile, cuneate-lanceolar, 
crenate, smooth on both sides; in the axill of each vein on the 
under side is a-remarkable hollow gland. Stipules ensiform. 
Flowers axillary, crowded, sessile, small, white. Calyx of 
five, unequal, imbricate, woolly, margined leaflets. Petals 
five, lanceolate, confined at the base, by the rigid leaflets of 
the perianth, into a bell shape ; above they are revolute and 
smooth on both sides. Filaments five, long, and slender, pro- 
jecting considerably beyond the mouth of the bell-shaped _ 
part of the corol, at the base each side is enlarged with one or 
more adjoimed hornlets which are bearded at the base, Germ 
superior, ovate, somewhat three-sided, Style as long as the 
stamens, villous; stigma simple. In the germ are the rudi- 
ments of two, three, or four seeds. 
VIOLA. Schreb. gen. N. 1364. 
Calyx five-leaved, Corol five-petalled, irregular, calea- 
rate. Anthers united. Capsules superior, three-valved, one- 
celled. Seeds many, parietal. Embryo furnished with a pe- 
riapenn 3 3 radicle centrifugal. 
L v. bufraitcosen Willd. spec, i, 1171. 
Perennial, diffuse. Leaves alternate, sub-sessile, lanceolate. 
Stipules subulate. Peduneles axillary, with two bractessiear 
the middle, Corel resupine. Capsulesround. = = 
_A native of the sandy lands about Madras. In the Bota- 
nic.garden at Calcutta it continues in flower and seed most 
part of the year. 
Stem scarcely any, but many diffusd! perennial, round, 
smooth branches, often extending to a foot in length, Leaves 
alternate, sub-sessile, vere: slightly serrate, pretty 
