Viola. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 649 



A small shrub, received into this garden from General 

 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-Ianeeolar, 

 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 adjoined 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. Scheb. gen. N. 1364. 

 Calyx five-leaved. Corol five-petalled, irregular, calca- 

 rate. Anthers united. Capsules superior, three- valved, one- 

 celled. Seeds many, parietal. Embryo furnished with a pe- 

 risperm ; radicle centrifugal. 



1. V. suffruticosa. Willd. spec. i. 1171. 



Perennial, diffuse. Leaves alternate, sub-sessile, lanceolate. 

 Stipules subulate. Peduncles axillary, with two bractes near 

 the middle. Corol resupine. Capsules round. 



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 diffuse, perennial, round, 

 smooth branches, often extending to a foot in leugth. Leaves 

 alternate, sub-sessile, lanceolate, slightly serrate, pretty 



