CO VIOLACKE. 



bracts 2, subulate, remote, 4 mm. long. Sepals nearly equally long, obtuse- 

 ly acuminate, 4 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, 1 mm. produced at the base 

 beyond tlie insertion, quite glabrous. Petals upper and lateral ones nearly 

 equal, ovately cuneate, emarginate at the apex, 12 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, 

 the lowest one larger, 15 mm. long, 9 mm. broad, yery emarginate at the 

 apex, or slightly 2-lobed, long spurred at the base, spurs 5 mm. long, 

 slightly curved. Anthers subsessile, connectives complanate, produced at 

 the apex to a membrane which is 1 mm. long ; 2-inferior stamens calcarate 

 on the back at the base, spurs 8 mm. long. Style nearly erect, stigma 

 terminal. 



HAB. Want: in. 



This is near V. Sitboldi MAXIM, but diners from it in having rounded 

 leaves. The leaves of T. Siclddi are much more oblong, but not quite, 

 rounded at the apex, as is the case with the Formosan plant. 



Viola diffusa GING. in !DC, Prodi-. I. p. 298; BENTH. Fl. Hougk. p. 

 20; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 735; FEANCHET PI. David, p. 43- 

 FORBES et HEMSL. Tiid. Fl. Sin. I. p. 52 ; HENEY List PI. Formos. p. 18 ; 

 DIELS Fl. Centr. Chin, in EXGL. Pot. Jahrb. XXIX. p. 477 ; MATSUM. et 

 HAY ATA Eiium. PI Formos. p. 28. 



HAB. Shichiseitonzaii, Kusshaku, Waiitan. 



PISTKIB. Himalaya and Khasia mountains ; China and southern Japan. 



Viola Nagasawai MAKING et HAYATA in MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. 

 PI. Formos. p. 30 ; HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 52 Stemless herb, stolouifer- 

 ous. leaves long petiolate, petioles slender, o-4 cm. long, twice as long as. 

 blades, blades somewhat large, broadly cordate at the base, rounded at the 

 apex, margin creuate, pilose above, glabrous below, 1.5-2 cm. long, stipu- 

 late, stipules 9 mm. long, subulate, laciniate, partly adnate to the petioles. 

 Flowers (when opened) 1.5 cm. in diameter, white in a dried specimen, 

 peduncles very long 3-4 times as long as petioles, 2-bracteate on the middle 

 of the peduncles, bracts opposite, acuminate, 5 mm. long. Sepals subequal 

 obtusely acuminate 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, produced at the base beyond 

 insertion. Petals upper and lateral ones nearly equal, obovate, cuneate at 



