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margins recurved ; younger leaves with the midrib bright red ; 

 stipules minute ruform, scale-like ; fruit oblong, glabrous, seated in 

 a ring. On the Ghauts to the south ; flowers in February. 



XIV. VIOLACE^E. 

 1. IONIDIUM, Vent. 



1. ENNEASPERMUM, Vent. A small suffrutescent plant, spread- 

 ing or half erect, with rather simple branches, and pink flowers and 

 narrow leaves. Syn. I. suffruticosum, Ging. ; I. heterophyllum, Vent. ; 

 I. Capensey, Burmanni, DC. Prod.] Viola 9 sperma, Linn; I. 

 frutescens, Ging. in DC. Prod. ; Viola suffruticosa, Linn. ; Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. i, 649; Roth. nov. sp. p 165 ; V. frutescens, Roth. loc. cit. 

 Common in the Southern Concan. 



2. HEXASPERMUM, Dalz. in Hook Jour. Bot. iv, p 342. Half 

 a foot high ; stem simple, straight, pubescent ; leaves linear, at- 

 tenuated at both ends, glabrous, roughish, and remotely denticulate 

 on the margin ; stipules subulate ciliated ; lateral petals ovate oblong, 

 obtuse mucronate ; capsule 6-seeded ; leaves 20 to 22 lines long, 

 2 lines broad ; flowers deep orange red. Hills near Belgaum. 

 Syn. Viola erecta, Roth. nov. sp. p 165 ; lonidium erectum, 

 Ging. in DC. Prod. ], 311. 



XV. DROSERACE^E. 

 1. DROSERA, Linn. 



1. D. BURMANNI, Vahl. DC. Prod. 1, p 318. Stemless ; 

 leaves all radical obovate cuneate sessile, covered with gland- 

 bearing hairs ; scapes erect, 3 to 4 inches high ; flowers white. 

 Common in the South Concan ; flowers in the rains. 



2. D. INDICA, Linn. Stem branched; leaves narrow linear 

 spathulate ; racemes and calyx puberulous. This and the preced- 

 ing are figured in Wight's lllust. t. 20. At Vingorla; common 

 in pastures in the rains. 



XVI. POLYGALE^E. 



1. POLYGALA, Linn. 



1. ARVENSIS, Willd. Herbaceous, branched from the base, 

 procumbent, pubescent; leaves elliptic oblong or obovate petioled ; 

 racemes 4 to 8-flowered nearly opposite to the leaves, and half their 

 length ; flowers yellow ; capsule roundish oblique ciliated, not 

 margined. Guzerat and Deccan, at Surat; flowers in July and 



