60 VIOLACE.I:. 



bracts 2, subulate, remote, 4 mm. long. Sepals nearly equally long, obtuse- 

 ly acuminate, 4 mm. long, 1 mm. br.>ad, 1 mm. produced at the base 

 beyond the insertion, quite glabrous. Totals upper and lateral ones nearly 

 equal, ovately cuueate, emarginate at the apex, 12 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, 

 the lowest one larger, 15 mm. long, 9 mm. broad, very emarginate at the 

 apex, or slightly 2-lobed, long spurred at the base, spurs 5 mm. long, 

 slightly curved. Anthers subsessile, connectives complanate, produced at 

 the apex to a membrane which is 1 mm. long ; 2-inferior stamens calcarate 

 on the back at the base, spurs 3 mm. long. Style nearly erect, stigma 

 terminal. 



HAB. "Wantaii. 



This is near V. Sitboldi MAXIM, but differs from it in having rounded 

 leaves. The leaves of V. Sicldcl! are mr.cli more oblong, but not quite, 

 rounded at the apex, as is the case with the Formosan plant. 



Viola diffusa GIXG. in DC. Prodr. I. p. 298 ; HENTH. Fl. Hongk. p. 

 20 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 735 ; FBANCHET PI. David, p. 43 ; 

 FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 52 ; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 18 ; 

 DIELS Fl. Ceiitr. Chin, hi ENGL. Pot. Jahrb. XXIX. p. 477 ; MATSUM. et 

 HAYATA Eiium. PI. Formos. p. 28. 



HAB. Shichiseitonzaii, Kusshaku, Wantaii. 



DISTRIB. Himalaya rnd Khasia mountains ; China and southern Japan. 



Viola Nagasawai MAKINO et HAYATA in MAISUM. et HAYATA Enuin. 

 PI. Formos. p. 30 ; HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 52 Stemless herb, stolouifer- 

 ous. leaves long petiolate, petioles slender, 3-4 cm. loug, twice as long as 

 blades, blades somewhat large, broadly cordate at the base, rounded at the 

 apex, margin crenate, pilose above, glabrous below, 1.5-2 cm. long, stipu- 

 late, stipules 9 mm. long, subulate, laciniate, partly adnate to the petioles. 

 Flowers (when, opened) 1.5 cm. in diameter, white in a dried specimen, 

 peduncles very long 3-4 times as long as petioles, 2-bracteate on the middle 

 of the peduncles, bracts opposite, acuminate, 5 mm. long. Sepals subequal 

 obtusely acuminate 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, prodr.ced at the base beyond 

 insertion. Petals upper and lateral ones nearly eqral, obovate, crr.eate at 



