violariea;. 



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hooded stigma. Capsule 3-valved : placenta in the 

 axis. Seeds often with a swelling at the base : em- 

 bryo straight, erect, in the axis of the fleshy albumen. 

 . — Lindl. abbr. 



Very few of the Violet tribe are natives of tropical countries. 

 The roots of all the species, especially Ionidium Ipecacuanha, 

 I. INDECORUM, and I. PoAYA, are more or less emetic. That of 

 I, PARVIFLORUM, found in the neighbourhood of Bogota, is said 

 to be a specific for Cocoe-bay, or the South American leprosy. 

 The common heart's ease, V. tricolor, has become naturalized, 

 and grows wild in some parts of the mountains. 



I. Sauvagesia. 



Calycine sepals 5, with sestivation imbricated. Pe- 

 tals 5, equal, alternate with the sepals, hypogynous, 

 deciduous, with the aestivation generally twisted ; a 

 filamentous crown situated before the petals, and ad- 

 nate to them- at the base, with the filaments compos- 

 ing it CO, capillary, clavaeform at the apex. Stamens 

 5,''fertile, opposite to the petals, alternating with 5 

 petaliform scales : filaments subulate : anthers adnate, 

 oblong, bursting with a double lateral slit towards the 

 apex."^ Ovary substipitate : style and stigma simple. 

 Capsule ovato-triquetrous, 1 -celled, 3-valved: seeds 

 minute. 



Small herbaceous i^lants.— Named in honour of Jacques 

 Boissier de Sauvages, a French Botanist, author of a Flora of 

 Montpellier, and other works. 



1. Sauvagesia erecta. Erect Sauvagesia. 



Stem suberect or procumbent branched, leaves 

 ovato-lanceolate serrated, pedicels 1-2-3 axillary, se- 

 pals aristato-acuminate, petals obovate apiculated. 



Broione, Jam. 179. t. 12. f. 2.—Jacq. Amer. 77. t. 51. f. 3. 

 ^Aubl. Gvi. II. 251. t. 100. f. 4. 



HAB. On the North-side of the Island in damp elevated sit- 

 uations. 



FL. Spring. n • i 



Root fibrous. Stem herbaceous, suberect, 6-9 mches m 

 height, branched. Leaves alternate, ovato-lanceolate, serrated, 

 glabrous, about an inch in length : petiole short. Stipules lan- 

 ceolate, aristato-acuminate, setoso-ciliated. Pedicels 1-3 to- 



