^2 VIOLACE^. 



On the open downs, in grass, quite common. Fyson 361, 

 1835, 1841. Bourne 22. 



Gen. Dist. Mountains of India, Ceylon, Thibet, and over North Asia 

 from Russia to Japan. 



Viola distans Wall. Runners long, bearing leaves 

 at intervals of Vz to 12 inches. Stipules almost entire. 

 Radical leaves with petioles of as much as 7 inches and 

 reniform blades, t. 18. 



Pulneys : near Poombari and in the Pambar- ravine. 

 Nilgiris : Kotagiri (Sir F. Adams). Bourne 742, 743, 4669. 



Gen. Dist. Himalayas, Khasi hills, Ceylon and perhaps Java. I have 

 not myself found this and I doubt whether it grows as high as our area 

 (i.e., about 6,500 feet). But I have added it here in case it should be 

 found. 



Viola serpens Wallich ; Wight's Kew dist. 74 ! ; F.B.I. 

 i 184,1 6; Pulney Wood Violet. Branches and runners 

 very slender and long, rooting occasionally at the nodes. 

 Stipules lanceolate, deeply toothed. Petioles I to 3 inches, 

 slender; blades delicate, hairy, triangular-cordate, with 

 a deep rounded sinus at the base : teeth pointing forward 

 blunt or snub-nose-shaped. Normal flowers % inch 

 across. Sepals 1/5 by 1/20 inch. Cleistogamic flowers 

 white, 1/20 inch on peduncles of less than I inch. Cap- 

 sule round, /4 inch. Seed pointed aril on one side of 

 the top. t. 19. Fyson 2093. 



In moist places, inside sholas, on the Pulney downs. 



* var. canescens Wall. Cat. 1442 ! a closely tufted plant 

 with hardly any stem, and no long runners. Stipules very 

 laciniate, flowers i inch across. In cool places. Fyson 1926. 



* * var. wightiana IVall. Cat. 4021 ! (not confusa Benth.) 

 In habit intermediate between the former two. A robuster 

 plant, with petioles up to 5 inches, blades to 2 inches, and large 

 sepals. Nilgiris and Pulneys flowers September. Wight Sp. 

 Nilg. t. ii=Ic. t. 943 but add runners. Fyson 301, 311, 2093'^, 

 2980, 2981. Bourne 202, 225. 



Wight's illustration, Ic. t. 943, does not show stolons, and his plant was 

 probably for this reason included in var. 3 of the F.B.I. But the plant 

 referred to in W. & A. Prod., i.e., Wall. 4021, has them. V. confusa Benth. 

 (var. 3 of F.B.I.) is quite different. 



