Viola.} VIOLACEAE. 17 
produced, narrow lanceolate, 3—4". Petals twice as long, pale purple, 
oblong, the lowest saccate, the 4 upper ones converging, assurgent. 
Anthers shortly apiculate, the 2 lowest with a narrow dorsal wing along 
their whole length which does not run out into a spur. Style as before. 
Capsule 8—10” long, with 8—14 pale seeds on each Pippen 
M “ge in Fhe clearings on the heights of Kamalo, 2500 ft. above the sea, ~~ 
no. 532, with smaller, elliptico-oblong leaves, pir tet on Lanai, 
aubahis beliings here, as does also a plant collected on Kauai by Knudsen. 
4. V. Chamissoniana, Gingins, in Linnaea, I, 408. — An upright, branch- 
ing shrub, 3—5 ft. high, the woody, close-grained stem often '/2’ thick 
or more, the branches diffusely peter Stipules dark, scarious, 2—4“, 
broadly deltoid, entire and long acuminate or glandular-dentate. iedves 
- on petioles of 1—2', cordate, rarely the upper ones ovate, 3—6’ < 1—21/2’, 
dentate with pitstioeel callous teeth, chartaceous, glabrous. Peduncles 
1 or 2 to a branch, 1/z—1!/2’ long, with 2 subulate bracts above the 
h narro 
connective and short but broad terminal appendage, the 2 lowest ue 
a long and broad or spur. Capsule 6, with 6—8 obovoid erg 
seeds to each plac — Gray, 1. c. p. 86. — Walp. Repert. I, 
Includes V. rogue eae Ging. 1. c. p. 409. — Dimorphism is tion a 
the occasional occurrence of well developed diminutive flowers not exceed- 
ing 3” in length, with petals scarcely longer than the sepals. 
On all islands at altitudes of 1000 to 3000 ft. 
% var, — Young shoots and inflorescence puberulous. Leaves serrate 
with uncinate teeth, puberulous underneath. Stipules large, 6. Flowers 
whitish. 
Kauai! (Kn). 
5. V. helioscopia, sp. — An erect shrub, 2—3 ft. high, with few 
slender virgate branches “folioee at the apex. Stipules deltoid-subulate, 
fringed with long glandular fimbria. Leaves coriaceous brous, ovate, 
1—11/2‘ & 1‘, acuminate, serrulate, 
cuneately into a petiole of 2—4”, Peduncles generall 
ascending, 11/2—2‘, long, each bearing a single large erect flower, and bi 
bracteolate a short distance from the calyx. Sepals narrow lanceolate. 
4", drawn out at the base into a short appendage. Petals 8—14”, broad 
Shims or orbicular, on long claws, pure white, waxy, the lowest saccate. 
Anthers and th od as before. Capsule 6”. Seeds dar a 
Oahu! on ridges val Makaha in yah Waianae district. The large snow-white 
flowers which pr ect hestest e foliage will mmend the plant pt neuer. 
Hillebrand, Flora of the Hawaiian 
