182 xii. RESEDACEJE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Ochradenus. 



3. OCHRADENUS, Delile. 



Much branched shrubs ; branches slender. . Leaves small, linear. Floivers 

 spiked or racemed, often polygamous. Calyx 5-partite. Petals 0. l)i*k 

 unilateral. Stamens 10-20, inserted within; the disk. Ovary ovoid, closed 

 at the top, 3-beaked ; ovules many, on 3 placentas. Bemy many-seeded. 

 DISTRIB. Species 2, a Spanish and the following. 



1. O. baccatus, Delile FL jEy. 15, t. 31, f. 1 ; leaves fleshy scattered 

 linear -spathulate, racemes terminal, flowers minute. J. Mult. Monog. 94; 

 Jioiss. Fl. Orient, i. 422 ; Griff. It. Notes, 228, No. 208. 



SINDH, Vicary, &c. DISTRIB. Westwards to Syria and Egypt. 

 Shrubby, 6-12 ft.; branches glabrous, leafless wlu-n old. Leaves -Hin.; stipules 

 minute or 0. Racemes rigid ; flowers yellowish, 1-2-sexual. tit it menu 1U-12. 

 l, white. /Setcfeiew, large. 



ORDER XIII. VIOLACE^E. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or pinnatisect, stipulate. 

 Flowers regular or irregular, 2-bracteolate. A sv-y*//.s- f>, persistent, equal or 

 unequal, imbricate in bud. Petal* ;">, hypogynous, equal or unequal, imbri- 

 cate or contorted in bud. Stamens 5, filaments short, broad ; anther 

 or connate, connective broad, produced beyond the cells. Ovamj sessile, 

 1-celled ; style simple, stigma capitate truncate or cupular entire or lolu-.l ; 

 ovules many, on 3 parietal placentas, unatropous. Fruit a 3-valved capsule, 

 rarely a berry. Seej/x small, albumen fleshy; embryo straight, cotyledons 

 flat. DISTRIB. Genera 21, species 240; natives of temp, and trop. re-ions. 



TRIBE I. Violeee. Corolla irregular ; lower petal dissimilar. Stami- 

 nodes 0. Gaptule loculicidal. 



Sepals produo-d at tin- baso ........... 1. VIOLA. 



Sepals not produced at the base .......... 2. IONIDJUM. 



TRIBE II. Alsodeleae. Corolla regular. Staminodes 0. Fruit a berry 

 or loculicidal capsule. 



3. ALSODEIA. 



1. VIOLA, Linn. 



Herbs, rarely shrubby below. F/oux-r.*, on 1-, rarely 2-flowered peduncles, 

 often dimorphic, some large petalled which ripen few seeds, others small 

 petalled or apetalous and very prolific. Sepals produced at the base. /VA//.X- 

 erect or spreading, lower largest, spurred or saccate at the base. A)ifh> rs 

 connate, connectives of two lower often spurred at the base. Style clavate 

 or truncate, tip straight or oblique, stigma obtuse lobed or cupular. ('<//- 

 side 3-valved. Seeds ovoid or globose. DISTRIB. Species about 100, all 

 temp, regions. 



The Pansy or Heartsease (Viola tricolor] occurs occasionally in India, as an escape 

 from cultivation. 



* Stigma obliquely 2-lobed, not beaked ; lobes short, spreading. 



1. V. biflora, L. ; glabrous or pubescent, leaves renifonu, stipules 

 ovate or oblong, flowers yellow, sepals linear-obtuse, spur very short. V. 



