98 PITTONIA. 
V. cucullata, mostly exceeding 2 inches wide, cuspidately acute, — 
short bristly appressed shining hairs along the veinlets and be- 
tween them on the upper face, such more notably forming a — 
minute ciliation of the margin, the lower face glabrous, also ; 
distinctly paler: peduncles very slender, quite glabrous, not 
quite equalling the leaves: sepals narrowly lanceolate, delicately | 
but interruptedly ciliolate, the basal auricles remarkably long, — 
entire or more or less deeply cleft, sharply pointed, often hispi- — 
dulous; corolla not large, about ł inch broad, none of the petals 
villous or hirsute, but the laterals with a small cluster of papille À 
. Tather than hairs, apetalous flowers aerial but on rather short — 
upright peduncles. : 
Type specimens collected by myself, near Surrattsville, Mary- 
land, 17 May, 1896,.in a woodland swamp, in deep shade. 
Number 4 of the North American Violaceæ, collected by Mr. 
Pollard in a “Moist wooded meadow, Berlin, Camden County, — 
New Jersey, 4 June, 1899,” has the characters of this species, — 
and must be referred to it, I think, though my specimen has no — 
petaliferous flower, and the petioles are glabrous, the leaves | 
almost so; but the sepals and their auricles, no less than the 
large, almost plane leaves, indicate V. macrotis. The sepals in , 
V. cucullata are broader, perfectly glabrous marginally as else- 
where, and have very short blunt or truncate wholly inconspicu- 
ous auricles, | 
V. LEPTOSEPALA. Near V. cucullata, smaller, about 4 or 5 
inches high at petaliferous flowering and the flowers borne quite 
above the foliage; earliest leaves wholly glabrous, some of the 
later with a few hairs on the petiole and some short appressed 
ones along the border of the blade, all the leaves round-cordate, — 
obtuse, very lightly and almost obscurely crenate-serrate, ł to 14 
inches long, the lower and middle ones as broad as long or even 
broader: bractlets of the peduncles very small, not opposite, 
apparently always separated by an interval of 2 to 4 lines: © 
sepals extremely long and narrow, those of the largest flowers 
4 inch long and of nearly # the length of the petals, glabrous, — 
