VIOLACE A. 363 
surrounded at base by persistent calyx, more or less distant from 
apex septicidally 3-valved; seeds «, small, albuminous ; embryo 
axile, straight. Other characters of Sauvagesia.—Glabrous under- 
shrubs ; leaves alternate, crowded, rather rigid entire or subserrate 
shortly petiolate; stipules entire or oftener pectinate-ciliate, per- 
sistent ; flowers in terminal, simple or compound racemes, sometimes 
axillary, bracteate (Brazi/’). 

Spec. 6. A. S. H., in Mém. Mus., ix. 325,—Marv. & Zucc., Nov. Ger. et Spec., i. 31, t. 22, 23, 
—Watrpr., Rep., i. 226. 
