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apax strongly emarginate or slightly 2-lob3cl, long calcarate, spars 6 mm. 

 long, slightly curved at the apax. Anthers subsassile, connestives complanata, 

 produced in a membraneous appendix which is 1 mm. long ; 2-lower stamens 

 calcarate on the back at the base, spurs 3 mm. long. Styles nearly straight, 

 stigma terminal. Capsules not yet known. 



HAB. Suizau. 



This is near Viola siamensis from Avhich it differs in having mucTi 

 longer spurs. Spurs are usually very short in the Siamese plant. 



Viola tozanensis HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 53. Stemless herb. 

 Leaves long petiolate, stipulate, petioles 4 cm. long, blade? broadly cordate, 

 rounded, crenulate, setulosely pubescent, beneath glaucous violascent, nearly 

 2 cm. long as broad, stipules laciniate, a little adnate to the petioles. Flo- 

 wers patent, re flexed, 14- cm. in diameter, long pedunculate, peduncles as long 

 as petioles, bracts 2 subulate opposite 5 mm. long. Sepals nearly equally 

 long, obtusely acuminate, 4 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, base beyond insertion 

 1 mm. produced, glabrous. Petals upper and side ones nearly equal, ovately 

 cuneate, truncate at the apex, 10 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, the lowest larger, 

 18 mm. long, 8 mm. broad, very emarginate at the apax, base long sparred, 

 spurs 4 mm. long, at the apax slightly curved. Anthers sub^assile, conuestives 

 complauate, produced at the apex in a membrane which is 1 mm. long ; 2 

 lower stamens spurred at the base on the back, spurs 3 mm. long. Style 

 nearly straight, stigma sub-terminal. Capsules not yet known. 



HAB. Tozau. 



This is found on the large trunk of a tree. The flower is piteut and 

 of a whitish purple colour. 



Viola formosana HAYATA iu MATSUAT. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formes, p. 

 28, and HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 33. Stemless herb. Leaves 

 long patiolate, stipulate, petioles slender 3-4 cm. long, twice as long as blades, 

 blades broadly cordate rounded, crenate, pilose only at the sinus batween 

 the crenas other parts quite glabrous, glaucD- violascent baiieath, 2 cm. long, 

 stipules laciniate, partly adnate to the petiole?. Flowers when opened 1.5 

 cm. in diameter, long padunculate, paduncles twice as long as petioles, 



