650 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, : Viola, 
smooth, about an inch long, and a quarter of an inch broad. 
- Stipules small, subulate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, one- 
flowered ; shorter than the leaves, jointed above the middle, 
where there are two small bractes, one on each side. Calyx 
five-leaved. Leaflets nearly equal, lanceolate, acute. Petals 
five, rosy, the two upper ones smallest, linear-oblong, and 
pointed ; the two lateral ones sub-ovate, with long, taper, re- 
curved apices; the lower one (here the corol is resupinate,) 
much larger than the others, broad-cordate, supported on a 
claw as long as the superior petals, which is protruded be- 
hind, between the two lower leaflets of the calyx, into a gib- 
bous nectary, Filaments; the two lower ones have eacha — 
_ ciliate hornlet projecting back. nthers with brown, ovate, 
scariose apices, Capsules nearly round, size of a pea, one- 
celled, three-valved. Seeds several in each cell, attached to 
a ridge which runs along the inside of each valve, obovate. 
Integument single, thin, striated. Perisperm conform to the 
seed, white. Embryo three-fourths the length of the peris- 
perm, greenish, Cotyledons oval. Radicle sub-cylindric, 
pointing to the umbilicus, at the small end of the seed, 
2. V. enneasperma. Willd. spec. i. 1171. 
Perennial, rather diffuse. Leaves lanceolate. Corol with 
little or no horn behind. = pO 
- Nelam. parenda. Rheed. Mal. 9, t, 60. rather a bad figure. 
3. V. primulifolia, Willd. spec. i. 1162. sg 
Annual, stemless. Leaves from triangular to faneolile 
cordate, serrate, decurrent. Flowers resupinate ; in that ae 
sition the lower petal is broader, and emarginate. é 
Native of the interior parts of Bengal ; in the Botanic gar- 
den at Calcutta it blossoms and _ its seed more or _— 
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