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bifarious, slender, all spreading neaily horizontally. — Leaves alter- 

 nate, bifarious, sessile, cuneate-lanceolar, crenate, smooth on both 

 sides; in the axil of each vein on the underside is a remarkable hol- 

 low gland. — Stipules ensiform — Flowers axillary, crowded, sessile, 

 small, white. — Calyx of five, unequal, imbricate, woolly, margined 

 leaflets. — Petals five, lanceolate, confined at the base, by the rigid leaf- 

 lets of the perianth, into a bell shape ; above they are revolute and 

 smooth on both sides. — Filaments five, long, and slender, projecting 

 considerably beyond the mouth of the bell-shaped part of the corol, 

 at the base each side is enlarged with one or more adjoined hornless 

 which are bearded at the base. — Germ superior, ovate, somewhat 

 three-sided. Style as long as the stamens, villous ; stigma simple. 

 In the germ are the rudiments of two, three, or four seeds. 



VIOLA, Scfoeb. gen. N. 1S64. 



Calyx five-leaved. Corol five-petalled, irregular, calcarate. An- 

 thers united. Capsules superior, three-valved, one-celled. Seedi 

 many, parietal. Embryo furnished with a perisperm ; radicle centri- 

 fugal. 



1 V '. su^ruticosa, Willd spec, i. 1171. 



Perennial, diffuse. Leaves alternate, sub-sessile, lanceolate. 5^*- 

 pules subula e. Peduncles axillary, with two biactes near the middle. 

 Corol resupine. Capsules round. 



A native of the sandy lands about Madras.* In the botanic gar- 

 den at Calcutta it continues in flower and seed most part of the 

 yeai, 



Stem scarcely any, but many diffuse, perennial, round, smooth 

 branches, often ex'tudmg to a toot in length. — Leaves alternate, sub- 

 sessile, lanceolate, slightly senate, pretty smooth, about an inch long, 



* It is very common in the fields from Jfwdeeya to Moorsbudabad, and probably in most 

 •Uierpaits cfBsugal, Ei. 



