Viola. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 451 



bescence on both sides, with rounded, by no means decurrent lobes 

 and a broad sinus, beneath five-nerved, and veined. — Petiol erect, 

 twice or thrice longer than the leaf, furrowed, villous. — Stipules 

 opposite, radical, erect, linear, acuminate, fringed with long ciliae, 

 reddish at the base.' — Peduncles radical, erect, generally longer than 

 the peliols, sometimes equaling them, slender, villous, one-flowered, 

 bearing a pair of alternate linear bracthts about the middle. Flower 

 small, nodding, inodorous, pale violet. — Sepals linear, acute, pube- 

 scent, obscurely trinerved : those near the spur denticulate, with 

 truncate, crenulate base; the rest entire with an acute base; the up- 

 permost two slightly recurved. — Petals nearly thrice as long as the 

 calyx, obtuse; the upper two cuneate, puberulous at the base; two 

 lateral ones rather narrower, bearded at the base, on its inside, sub- 

 unguicu.ate, maiked with a dark, undivided nerve. The lowermost 

 shorter than the rest, oblong, very little pubescent above, maiked with 

 radiating dark veins, and terminating in a short, obtuse, compressed 

 spur. — Anthers large, broad-lanceolate, white, membranous, imbri- 

 cating. The appendices of the lowermost filaments very long, de- 

 scending, ciliate, greenish. — Ovary ovate, purplish, covered with 

 headed villi. — Style complanate, whitish* — N. W» 



7. V. rtrujormis, Wall. 



Stems decumbent, fleshy. Leaves pubescent, kidney-shaped, ser- 

 rate, Hie iOwermost long-petioled ; the uppermost shoi t-petioled. 

 Stipules toothed. Calyx simple, linear, one-half shorter than the 

 subulate spur. 



1 have found this in moist places towards the summit of Sheopore 

 in Nipal, blossoming in June. 



A very elegant, somewhat succulent species. — Stems round, slen- 

 der, pallid, sparingly beset with short, hyaline, spreading hairs, mark- 

 ed with two narrow, opposite maigins, mostly undivided, prostrate, 

 from six to twelve inches long ; their ends ascending. Leaves 

 bioad-renifonn, obtuse, remote, of a very pale-green, acutely and 



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