lonidium.] VlolcLCeo^. 6? 



3. V. serpens, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey) ii. 449 (1824). 

 V. crenata, Moon Cat. 17. V. lVtghtza?ia, vzx. pubescens^ Thw. Enum. 

 20. C. P. 153 (part). 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 184. Royle, 111. t. 18, fig. i. 



A perennial herb, with a slender, ascending rootstock, 

 usually giving off long, prostrate, glabrous, rooting branches ; 

 1, i-i| in., broadly cordate-ovate, acute or obtuse, crenate- 

 serrate, more or less hairy on both surfaces, petioles usually 

 longer than 1., hairy especially at upper part, stip. free fim- 

 briate ; fl. |-| in., nodding, ped. longer than 1., slightly hairy, 

 bracts setaceous ; sep. linear-lanceolate, very acute ; pet. 

 oblong, spreading, spur not inflated, stigma oblique ; capsule 

 \ in., subglobose, pubescent, valves dehiscing irregularly. 



Montane zone descending to 4000 ft.; common. Moon gathered it 

 on Adam's Peak. Fl. most of the year ; pale violet-blue or nearly white. 



All the Indian mountains, and extends to China and Java. 



This is the common hill-violet of Ceylon, and very like some forms of 

 the wild V. canma of Europe. 



2. ZONIDZUm, Vefit. 

 Semi-shrubby herbs ; fl. solitary ; sep. 5, not produced at 

 base ; pet. 5, the lowest much the largest, spurred at base ; 

 stam. 5, distinct, 2 lower spurred at the base, anthers with a 

 tongue-like appendage; ov. i -celled, with 3 parietal placentas, 

 ovules few; capsule 3-valved. — Sp. 40; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Leaves few, spreading acute . . . . i. I. suffruticosum. 

 Leaves very numerous, imbricate, acuminate . 2. I. RAMOSISSIMUM. 



I. I. suffruticosum, Ging. itt DC. Prod. \. 311 (1824). Oritad- 

 tamarai, T. 



Herm. Mus. 47. Fl. Zeyl. n. 318 and 317. Viola suffruticosa and 

 V. enneasperma^ L. Sp. PI. 937 ; Moon Cat. 17. Thw. Enum. 20. 

 C. P. 76. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 185. Wight, 111. t. 19. Burm. Thes. t. 85. 



A small, semi-shrubby herb, with many diffuse or ascend- 

 ing branches, glabrous or finely pubescent ; 1. linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, i-i| in., sessile or nearly so, entire or very shallowly 

 crenate-serrate, stip. minute, subulate ; fl. solitary, axillary, 

 ped. \ in., erect, slender ; sep. linear, acute ; pet. unequal, 

 2 upper ones oblong, slightly longer than sep., 2 lateral longer, 

 falcate, lowest twice as long as lateral ones, \ in., with an oval 

 convolute limb and a long claw ; capsule subglobular, apicu- 

 late, smooth, valves papery ; seeds white, longitudinally 

 striate. 



Low country ; common, especially in the dry districts in open ground. 

 Fl. all the year ; rose-pink. 



