Viola. TENTAXDRIA MON t)G YNIA. 4-19 



4. V. apetala, R. 



Annua!, stem'ess. Leaves broad-cordate, sagittate, serrate lobes, 

 and apex rounded, in luxuriant plants the scapes are many-flowered. 

 riozcers diandrous, and very generally without a corol. 



Received from the Mauritius into the botanic garden in Bengal, 

 where it is in constant flower and seed the whole year. 



Additional species by N. JV. 



5. V. serpens, Wall. 



Covered wiih reiiexed short pubescence. Stems simple, prostrate, 

 stoloniferous. Leaves ovate-cordate, acuminate. Stipules fringed. 

 Flozcer stalks erect, simple, shorter than the leaves. Calyx acute. 

 Corolla resupinate, nodding; lozcermost petiol lanceolate, smaller than, 

 the rest. 



A native of Nipal, where it inhabits moist and shady places on 

 most of the hills about the great valley, blossoming and ripening its 

 seeds successively from March till June. In the botanic garden it 

 has succeeded very well on raised, well drained, beds of masonrv, 

 filled with gravelly soil. 



Root slender, perpendicular, cylindric, a little branchy. Stems 

 numerous, very slender, round, simple, more or less purple, from one 

 to two or more feet long, at first somewhat prostrate, creeping, and 

 stoloniferous from the axi's of the leaves ; together with the petiols and 

 peduncles beset with copious, short, reflexed, erect, afterwards rough. 

 ish hairs. — Leaves alternate, remote, erect, ovate-cordate, acuminate, 

 obtusely serrate, the serratures rather prominent on the upper surface, 

 margins gibbous, lobes of the basa rounded, approximate, separated 

 by a deep, entire sinus, pubescent on both sides, dark-green, rugose 

 above ; nerved, veined, aud from five- to seven-nerved underneath ; 

 those near the root about three inches long, the rest gradually smaller. 



