186 xiii. VIOLACE^:. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [lonidium* 



Abundant from BUNDELKUND and AGRA, to BENGAL and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Tropicn" 

 Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Very variable, 6-12 in., perennial ; branches diffuse, woody. Leaves 1J-2 by ^-^ in., 

 subsessile ; stipules subulate, gland-tipped. Flowers red ; pedicels shorter than the 

 leaves. Petals variable, 4 oblong acute or mucronate, the 5th with a long claw, and 

 large oval or orbicular limb. /Seeds striate. 



2. I. ramosissimum, Tliwnitt's Enum. 21 ; leaves closely imbricate 

 narrow-linear quite entire glaucous, flowers solitary. 



CEYLON, banks of the RffahftWtliiganga at Havagam. Thwaitex. 

 Shrubby, suberect, 6-8 in., branches suberect. Leaves l-l in., mucronate, veiuless, 

 margins recurved. Flowers as in /. suffruticosum. 



3. ALSODEIA, Thouars. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite), distichous ; secondary 

 nerves often numerous and parallel. ,s7//;//A-x rigid. Flnwr* small, axil- 

 lary or terminal, solitary fascicled cymose or racemose, regular ; peduncles 

 with many bracts. Sepals 5, subequal, rigid. P>-ils 5, subequal, sessile. 

 Stamens 5, inserted inside or on an annular disk ; connective produced into 

 along or short often broad membranous appendage. Oc'ir/i ovoid; style 

 straight, stigma terminal ; ovules few or many. Cajmde 3-valved, few- 

 seeded. Seed* glabrous in the E. Ind. species. DISTRIB. Species about 40, 

 chiefly tropical American. 



SECT. I. Doryctandra, Jfnwk. (Gen.). Stamens exserted, filaments 

 slender ; anthers cohering in a cone. 



1. A. Roxburgh!!, Wall. Cat. 7189 (Pentaloba?) ; branchlets pubes- 

 cent on one side, leaves glabrous small elliptic or cuneate lanceolate obtuse 

 subcrenate perforate at tne nerve axils beneath, flowers fascicled glabrous. 

 Am. in M<j. Znul. ami ]>(. ii. 343. Vareca heteroclita, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 048. 

 Doryctandra Koxburghii, //<//. in ///:/'". \. \-n\. 



OUDE, Genl. Martin: SII.IIKT, ]\'tillich; ANDAMANS, Kurz. 



AamaU>Bhrnb; branchlrts compressed. Leaves 1-1^ by 4~| in., sessile, pale be- 

 neath, nervote few, venules obsolete. Stipules ^ in., subulate from a broad base. 

 Flowers subsessile, ^ in. diani., white. Segals unequal, obtuse. l\-t<tl* linear, tips 

 revolute. Disk 10-toothed. Filaments glabrous; ant hers white, narrow-linear, almost 

 as long as the filaments, base of cells tomentose ; appendage oblong, obtuse. Ovary 

 glabrous; style filiform, pubescent. Capsule 1, few-seeded. 



SECT. II. Stamens included ; anthers free. Disk cupular. 

 * Ovary and style glabrous. 



2. A. beng-alensis, Wall, in Trans. Med. and Phys. Soc. Cole. vii. 224 ; 

 glabrous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate serrulate, nerve-axils beneath bearded, 

 stipules slender, flowers fascicled, filaments very short, tip of connective 

 short broad. Pentaloba] bengalensis, Wall. Cat. 4896; Arn. in Mag. Zool. 

 and Bot. ii. 542. 



SILHET, Wattich, Griffith; ANDAMANS, Kurz. 



A shrub or small tree? Leaves 3-5 by l\-2^ in., shining, tip obtuse ; petiole in. 

 Stipules ^ in., narrow lanceolate. Peduncles |- in., 1-fiowered, glabrous or pube- 

 rulous ; bracts minute, basal, ovate, subacute. Flowers & in. diam., glabrous. Sepals 

 broad, ovate, the length of the oblong-ovate petals. Disk thick, 5-lobed. Anthers 

 glabrous, oblong. Capsule ^ in., quite glabrous, 3-4-seeded. 



