﻿TAB. XIII. 



Viola Cotyledon. 



Fruticosa, ramis crassis tortuosis, foliis patenti-reflexis conferlis 

 coriaceis rhombeo-spathulatis cartHagineo-marginatis glaber- 

 rimis. Acre terminali subsolitario subsessilij calycibus basi 

 non productis, calcare brevi inflexo, 

 Viola Cotyledon. Gingins^ inDeCand. Prodr. v. l.p. 300. 

 Hab. At a great elevation on the Volcano of Antuco, S. Chili. 

 Mr. 'Reynolds (w. 94). 



The Andes of South America, both intra- and extra-tropical, 

 are remarkable for producing several species of Viola^ so diffe- 

 rent in habit from the more usual forms of that extensive genus, 

 that at first sight we can hardly bring ourselves to think they 

 belong to it at all. Viola Asferias, pusilla, congesta and volcanica^ 

 described by Hooker and Arnott in the Bot. Miscellany^ are of 

 this number: and to these the present one may assuredly be 

 added, whose leaves in texture and even in form not unaptly re- 

 semble those o^ Saxifraga Cotyledon. The stigma is very large, 

 somewhat triangular and peltate. 



Fig. 1. Flower. / 2. Under side of the lower (or spurred) 

 petal. / 3. Upper side of do. / 4. Stamens including the 

 pistil. /. 6. Pistil ',-^magnified. 



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