448 frEKTANDRIA MONOGYNIA; Viola, 



and a quarter of an inch broad. — Stipules small, subulate. — Pedun- 

 cles axilary, solitary, one-flowered ; shorter than the leaves, jointed 

 above the middle, where there are two small bractes, one on each side. 

 '—Calyx rive-leaved. Leaflets nearly equal, lanceolate, acute. — Petals 

 five, rosy; the two upper ones smallest, linear-oblong, and pointed ; 

 the two lateral ones sub-ovate, with long, taper, recurved apices; the 

 lower one (here the corol is resupinate,) much larger than the others, 

 broad-cordate, supported on a claw as long as the supeiior petals, which 

 is protruded behind, between the two lower leaflets of the calyx, into 

 a gibbous nectary. — Filaments ; the two lower ones have each a ciliate 

 Iiornlet projecting back. Anthers with brown; ovate, scariose apices. 

 - — Capsules nearly round, size of a pea, one-celled, three-valved.— * 

 Seeds several in each cell, attached to a ridge which runs along the 

 inside of each valve, obovate. Integument single, thin, striated — - 

 Perisperm conform to the seed, white. Embryo three-fourths the 

 length of the perisperm, greenish. Cotyledons oval. Radicle sub<* 

 cylindric, pointing to the umbilicus, at the small end of the seed. 



2. V. enneasperma, Willd. spec i. 1171- 



Perennial, rather diffuse. Leaves lanceolate. Corol with little 

 or no horn behind. 

 Nelam. parenda, Rheed. mal. 9« t. 60. rather a bad figure. 



S. V. primuli folia, Willd. spec- i. 11 62.* 



Annual, stemless. Leaves from triangular- to Janceolar-cordatftj 

 serrate, deCurrent. Flowers resupinate 5 in that position the lower 

 petal is broader, and emargiaate. 



Native of the interior parts of Bengal; in the botanic garden at 

 Calcutta it blossoms and ripens its seed more or less the whole year. 



* V. primulifolia is a native of America. Whether this be the American plant I know not, 

 but I doubt its being a native of Bengal. Dr. Roxburgh received it from a gentleman then re- 

 sident at Moorshudabad which is all the authority he had for considering it indigenous h«re % - 

 it certaiuly does not differ from the next species ; all the species I know produce apetalouS 

 flowers except at one season «f tie rear, when the flowers are perfect. Ed, 



