Alsodeia.] 



XI. VIOLACEiE. 



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(i) A. Wallichiana 

 (2) A. Kunstleriana 



(3) A. hirtella 



(4) A. lankawiensis 



(5) 

 ■(6) 



dasycaula 

 Wrayi 



2. ALSODEIA, Thouars. 



Treelets or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite entire or 

 serrate. Flowers small white or yellow, solitary, racemed or panicu- 

 late, axillary or terminal. Sepals 5, sub-equal. Petals 5 sub-equal 

 sessile. Stamens 5, filaments free or connate, inserted on or inside 

 an annular disc, with long or short dorsal membranous appendages ; 

 anther-cells sometimes with linear processes. Ovary ovoid; style 

 straight. Stigm.a terminal. Ovules few or many. Capsule 3- 

 valved. Seeds few. Species about 50, tropics generally. 



i. Prosthesia. Anthers with a subulate appendage from the tip of each cell 

 and broad dorsal appendages from the connective. 



Capsule globose bluntly angled, pale, warty; 

 leaves large, glabrous .... 



Capsule ovate acute ; leaves broad, glabrous 

 Capsule unknown. 



Leaves broad lanceolate, acuminate; with 

 flowers hairy ...... 



Capsule globose warty. 



Cymes very short ; flowers small ; leaves about 

 3 in. long glabrous ..... 



Capsule ovoid glabrous. 



Cymes very short ; flowers small ; leaves thin 

 and hairy ...... 



Capsule valves i in. long, boat-shaped. 



Cymes racemose -5 in. long .... 



Capsule valves -75 in. long 



Cymes panicled, i in. long; leaves large 7 in. 



long 



Capsule ovoid -5 in. long. 



Cymes corymbose peduncled ; flowers rather 

 large ....... 



Capsule ovoid -75 in. long. 



Raceme of cymes terminal 4 in. long 



ii. Pentaloba. Anthers with broad appendages from connectives only. 

 Fruit not spiny hairy. 



Cymes very small; leaves 3 in. long ovate 

 Cymes small not peduncled. 



Leaves lanceolate ; capsule silky small 

 Leaves oblong; capsule glabrous 1-25 in. long 

 Leaves lanceolate, long, acuminate large ; 

 capsule '5 in. . 

 Cymes corymbose peduncled many-flowered. 

 Flowers -08 in. long; numerous crowded 

 Flowers -15 in. long; leaves 4 in. long . 

 Flowers -3 in. long; leaves 10 in. long . 

 Capsules covered with soft bristles. Cymes small. 

 Leaves oblong lanceolate; capsule sparsely 

 bristly ....... 



Leaves lanceolate acuminate toothed; capsule 

 densely bristly; anthers with a subulate 

 process from each cell, no appendage to 

 connective ...... 



Leaves, oblong, obovate, toothed ; capsule 2 in. 

 across, densely felted .... 



(7) A. Hookeriana 



(8) A. Maingayi 



(9) A. cinerea 



(10) A. minutiflora 



(11) A. lanceolata 



(12) A. pachycarpa 



(13) A. Scortechinii 



(14) A. condensa 



(15) A. floribunda 



(16) A. grandiflora 



(17) A. capillata 



(18) A. comosa 



(19) A. echinocarpa 



