purple, variegated with yellow, very showy. The 3 outer 

 sepals small, roundish, concave, coloured, externally puberulous : 

 the 2 inner petaloid, forming the most showy part of the flower, 

 clawed, obcordate. The 3 lower petals united into a 3-6d keel, 

 with the central lobe the smallest, ciliated, variegated with yel- 

 low: the two upper petals, small, oblong, gibbous at the base, 

 obtuse at the apex, yellow. Stamens 8, monadelpbous, with a 

 fissure in the tube opposite to the standard, and villoso-ciliated 

 along its margin : anthers small. Ovary roundish, compressed, 

 gibbous and sericeo-puberulous on one side : style length of 

 the stamens, thick, curved : stigma compressed, sub-bilobed. 

 Capsule 1 -seeded. 



This is a very beautiful shrub. Swartz states that the 

 flowers have the smell of the sweet violet, VIOLA ODORATA. 



ORDER XXII. CARYOPHYLLE.E. 



Calycine sepals 4 or (more frequently) 5, free or 

 united into a 4-5 toothed tube. Petals correspond- 

 ing in number, inserted on a hypogynous disk, alter- 

 nating with the sepals, clawed, with the limb entire or 

 bifid, seldom awanting. Stamens 2 CC the number of 

 the petals, inserted on the disk ; one half of them al- 

 ternating with the petals and more precocious ; the 

 other half opposite and coalescing with them at the 

 base : filaments subulate, in some species submona- 

 delphous: anthers bilocular, bi-rimose. Ovary in- 

 serted on the summit of the disk, 2-5 valved, with a 

 corresponding number of styles : styles clavate, dis- 

 tinct from the base, stigmatose and papillose on the 

 inner surface. Capsule 2-5 valved, united at the 

 base, dehiscent at the apex. Seeds co (very seldom 

 few or defined in number) : albumen farinose : em- 

 bryo in general peripheral, more or less incurved, very 

 rarely straight or central : radicle turned towards the 

 hilum. 



The plants belonging to this tribe are herbaceous or suffrn- 

 ticose : stems nodose : leaves uniformly opposite, often connate, 

 entire : flowers terminal. 



