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at the apex, membranaceous, yellowish above, loosely nerved, 3-3^ mm. 

 long, li mm. wide, suddenly incurved and thicker in texture at the base, 

 compressed-infundibuliform below, with the bifid inner edge about one- 

 third as long as the outer edge, shortly gibboso-calcarate immediately 

 above the very base externally, the calcar thick-walled and protruding out- 

 wards beyond them between the sepals. Stamens 9-14, erect, included, 

 slightly longer than the petals; filaments subulato-filiform, glabrous, one- 

 nerved. ; anther minute, ovoid-orbicular or ovoid-elliptical, light yellow, basi- 

 iixed, rounded at top, hardly bifid at the base, 2-celled, laterally dehiscing 

 longitudinally ; pollen light yellow, oblong, smooth, longitudinally 3-furrowed. 

 Staminodes often present, 1-4 in number, about half as long as stamen, 

 broadly linear, usually attenuated above into an obtuse tip, thinly mem- 

 branaceous, enerved or 1-nerved. Pistils 3-4, or rarely 5, erect, about 

 equalling the stamens in height ; ovaries sessile, free, lanceolato-cylindrical, 

 aciite into the style, greenish, glabrous, 1-celled, thinly walled, with about 

 10-14-ovule3 in 2 rows ; ovules minute, obovoid, smooth, sessile, anatropous; 

 style erect, gracile, shorter than the ovary ; stigma minute, obliquely 

 terminal, punctato-introrse. Follicles 3-4 or rarely 5, stellately divaricate, 

 subfalcato- oblong -lanceolate, acute to the persistent style, sessile, free, 

 laterally compressed, straight or a little arcuate, glabrous, membranaceous, 

 with delicate oblique veins, green, dorsal margin delicately subcarinate, 9- 

 10 mm. long, nearly 3 mm. wide, dehiscing throughout the ventral suture, 

 10-14-seeded. Seeds small, subfusiform-obovate, a little oblique in form, 

 sessile, li mm. long ; testa crustaceous, black, minutely granulato-rugulose ; 

 albumen copious, dense ; embryo very minute. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Sakawa {T. Maldno\); Prov. Musashi : Tokyo 

 (/?. Yatahe and J. llatsuomira ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, April 

 18, 1878 ; T. 3Ialdno ! April 1893, April 1896, April 1900), Komaba {T. 

 MaJcinol May (1902); Prov. Sagami : Yokosuka (Herb.! ibid. Nov. 24, 

 1880); Prov. Idzu: Shimotaga (S. Okuho ! herb. ibid. June 3, 1883), Okada- 

 mura in Isl. Oshima {S. Ohuhol herb. ibid. April 17, 1887); Prov. Hizen ; 

 Nagasaki (Herb. ! ibid. May 12, 1879); Prov. Awa in Shikoku : Yamashirodani- 

 mura (i?. Yatahe ! herb. ibid. July 1888) ; Prov. Suo: Ochi-mura (D. Nikai ! 

 herb. ibid. April 20, 1892); Prov. Omi: Hikone {T. Malcmo\ April 1902). 



Common in Japan. 



Viola (Nomimium) violacea Makino Illustr. Fl. Jap. I. no. 17, 

 (1891) p. 1, tab. G7. 



