460 . PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Viola, 



— Petiol as long as the leaf, even, gently furrowed above. Stipules 

 opposite, lanceolate, membranous, pale-green, three or four lines 

 long, smooth, fringed with numerous subulate, sub-glandular tooth- 

 lets; base simple. Peduncles filiform, solitary, axillary, a little longer 

 than the petiol, erect, round, bent at the apex ; above the middle 

 there are two linear, subulate, opposite or sub-alternate bractlets 

 with ciliate bases. — Flowers small, resupinate, nodding, white with 

 a feeble bine tinge, scentless. Leaflets of the calyx lanceolate, acute, 

 ciliato-denticulate, half the length of the petals ; their base peltate, 

 slightly concave, truncate, and crenulate, that of the lowermost pair a 

 little broader. The tipper petal is by inversion lateral or lowermost, 

 smaller than the rest, lanceolate, acute, marked with dtep-coloured 

 violet veins, equalling its straight, compressed, obtuse spur, which 

 descends between the sepala and is longer than their bases. The 

 other petals white, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, bearded ab>>ve with 

 short, sub-capitellate hairs. — Anthers distinct ; their membianes 

 broad. The appendices of the lowermost pair greenish. 



Obs> This elegant species approaches a little to V. adorata and 

 canina; it differs by its elongated prostrate habit, its hairiness, and 

 the colour and smaller size of the flower, which are shorter than the 

 leaves. It approaches also to sarmentosa of Marschal, but differs by 

 the form and comparative smoothness of the leaves, and the lanceo- 

 late, not subulate sepals. — N. W. 



6. V, canescens, Wall. 



Stemless, the whole plant covered with copious glaucous pube- 

 scence. Leaves cordate-reniform, blunt. Stipules fringed with long 

 ciliae. Flower stalks erect, longer than the leaves. Calyx acute. 

 Corolla resupinate. 



1 have only found this species on mount Nag-C/rjoon in Nipal, flow- 

 ering in March. 



Moot short, cylindric, persistent ? with dense capillary fibres. Stem 

 none. — Leaves broad-cordate, sub-reniform, obtuse, serrato-crenate, 

 an inch and a half or two inches long, covered with glaucous pu- 



