MACLOSKIE: VIOLACE^. 581 



Many species have also cleistogamic flowers, on runners, without petals. 

 Species 150, widespread; though common in New Zealand they are 

 rare in Australia. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 

 A. Having stems. 

 b. Flowers yellow. 



c. Leaves oblong-obtuse. Stipules incised. Spur short. fimbriata. 



C2. Leaves ovate, attenuate-petiolate. Stipules ovate, fimbriate, subacute. Spur short. 



maculata, 



c^. Leaves round-spatulate, entire, glabrous. Stem woody, attenuate-petiolate. Flowers 



minute. sempervivum. 



b2. Flowers blue. Plants prostrate, branching, glabrous. Leaves cuneate-obovate, triden- 



tate, toothed. No spur. tridentata. 



63. Petals variously colored in the flower. Stipules large, pinnatifid. tricolor. 



A2. Stemless. 



b. Leaves glabrous. 



c. Leaves small, oval, acute. Scape long ; flowers yellow. microphylla. 



c2. Leaves cordate-rounded, subacute. Stipules large. Flowers blue, with long spur. 



huidobrii. 



62. Leaves slightly hairy. 



c. Leaves reniform-rotundate. Stipules lanceolate, subentire. Scape long, i -flowered. 

 Spur short. magellanica. 



C2. Leaves ovate-rotundate. Stipules entire. Scape long, with long, narrow, auricled 

 bracts near the flower. commersonii. 



63. Leaves woolly-margined, ovate-spatulate. Scape short. vulcanica. 



I. VlOLA COMMERSONII DC. 



Low. Leaves radical, petiolate, ovate-rotundate, obtuse, crenate, 

 sparsely ciliate above, generally reticulated underneath. Stipules broad- 

 ovate, membranaceous, concave, entire. Scape twice as long as the 

 leaves, arcuate upwards ; bracts near the flowers, rather large, erect, lance- 

 olate, acute, auricled on both sides at the base. Flower pendulous ; pet- 

 als obovate-spatulate, glabrous. 



Magellan, S. Fuegia to Cape Horn ; by Orange Bay on the tops of the 

 mountains ; Cordilleras of S. Patagon. (by J. B. Hatcher, February 25, 

 1897). 



2. V. FIMBRIATA Steud. 



Root fibrous. Stem slender, fruticulose. Leaves petiolate, oblong, ob- 

 tuse, hispidulous above, with fimbriate margin, crenate, the fimbriae at 

 length vanishing; petioles equalling the laminae. Stipules sheathing, 



