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 each a 

 ciliate homlet projecting back. Anthers with brown, ovate, 

 scariose apices. Capsules nearly round, size of a pea, one- 

 celled, three-valved. Seeds several in each cell, attached to 

 a rido-e 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. 



Nelam. parenda. Rheed. Mai 9. t. 60. rather a bad figure. 



3. Y.primulifolia. Willd. spec. i. 1162. 



Annual, stemless. Leaves from triangular to lanceolar- 

 cordate, serrate, decurrent. Flowers resupinate ; in that po- 

 sition the lower petal is broader, and emarginate. 



Native of the interior parts of Bengal ; in the Botanic gar- 

 den at Calcutta it blossoms and ripens its seed more or less 

 the whole year. 



4. V. apetala. R. 



Annual, stemless. Leaves broad-cordate, sagittate, ser- 



