VIOLACEM. 



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Fig. 361. 



Transverse sect, of 



stamen (^). 



Fig. 362. 

 Fruit (f). 



Glceospermiim, which we have only been able to separate from 

 Minor ea as a section, has a fruit more or less fleshy without, and 

 perhaps indehiscent at maturity. 



Its seeds are clothed outwardly Bimrea ph^hora. 



with a viscous layer of cells, 

 transforming themselves in the 

 Rinorea of the section Lasio- 

 spermum into woolly hairs, the 

 pericarp being, moreover, in this 

 section of the same consistence 

 as in GZceospermum. 



The fruit of Leonia is a berry, 

 and the flowers analogous to those of Rinorea ; but their monadel- 

 phous stamens are destitute of all pointed prolongation of the con- 

 nective. 



Beside Leonia are placed the two genera Mclieytits and Hi/menan- 

 thera, very nearly allied to each other, and the polygamous, regular, 

 and pentamerous flowers of which are remarkable for their anthers 

 surmounted by a prolongation of the connective, and lined without 

 by a tongue, attached more or less low upon its back. The fruit 

 is an indehiscent berry in Melici/tus and Hymenanthera, which are 

 distinguished from each other : the first, by subsessile anthers, and 

 three placentas uni- or pluriovulate ; the latter, by short and mou- 

 adelphous filaments, and two uniovulate placentas. 



II. VIOLET SERIES. 



The genus Viola 1 (figs. 352, 363-309), several species of which are 

 known in our country, the Pansy, 2 for example, or the sweet Violet, 3 

 includes plants having hermaphrodite irregular flowers, with convex 

 receptacle. The calyx is formed of five sepals, subequal among 



1 Viola T., Inst., 419, t. 236.— L., Gen., n. 

 1007 (part.). — Adans., Fam. des PI., ii. 389. — 

 J., Gen., 294. — G;ertn., Fruct., ii. 139, t. 112. 

 — Poib., Diet., viii. 623; Suppl. v. 482. — Lamk., 

 III., t. 725. — Ging., in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. 

 Gen., ii. t. 1 ; in DC, Prodr. i. 291. — Spacu, 

 Suit, a Buffon, v. 501. — Endl., Gen., n. 5040. 

 — Payer, Organog., 177, t. 37 ; Fam. Nat., 

 107.— A. Okay, Gen. III., t. 80.— B. H., Gen., 

 117, 970, n. h.—Frpelion DC, ex Sweet, Brit. 



Fl. Gard., t. 170. — Chrysion Spach, loe. cit„ 

 509. — Mnemion Spach, loc. ail., 510. — Lo- 

 phion Spach, loc. cit., 516. 



8 V. tricolor L., Spec, 13S6.— DC., Fl. Fr., 

 iv. 808 ; Prodr., loc. cit., 303, n. 81. — Gren. & 

 Godr., Fl. de Fr., i. 182. 



3 V. odorata L., Spec, 132 k— DC, Prodr., 

 296, n. 29.— Sm., FL Brit., 245.— V. mavis 

 Bieb., Fl. Taur.-Cauc, Suppl., 164. 



