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Plate 81. 



SOLEA, Ging. 



Sepala asqualia, basi non producta. Petala fere aequi- 

 longa ; anticum basi gibboso-saccatum apice bilobum ; cae- 

 tera consimilia. Stamina arete connata, synemate antice 

 uniglanduloso. — Herba caulescens, foliis alternis, floribus 

 parvulis, pedicellis 2 — 3 in axillis fasciculatis. 



Solea, Gingins in DC. Prodr. 1. p. 306, & in Mem. Soc. Genev. 1. c. t. 2. 



(vix Spreng.) Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1. p. 144. Meisn. 



Gen. p. 20. 

 VioLa: Sp., Forst. Nutt etc. 



Hybanthus Sp., Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1. p. 805, & Gen. 966. 

 Ionidii Sp., Roem. & Schult. 5. p. 401. Endl. Gen. 5041. 



Calyx of 5 linear and equal sepals, spreading, not pro- 

 duced at the base, nearly as long as the corolla, persistent. 

 Petals hypogynous, nearly equal in length, erect, with their 

 tips barely spreading ; imbricated (as in Viola) in aestivation, 

 marcescent ; the upper and lateral ones alike, narrowly ob- 

 long, emarginate ; the lower one much larger, saccate at the 

 base, dilated upwards, obcordate or emarginate-two-lobed at 

 the apex. Stamens 5, perfectly syngenesious ; the fila- 

 ments proper nearly none ; the connectives membranaceous 

 and dilated as in Viola, but firmly and permanently united 

 by their edges into a sheath (their tips alone becoming free) 

 which incloses the pistil, and bears a single rounded or two- 

 lobed gland on the anterior side next the base^ anthers ad- 

 nate to the inner face, two-celled ; the cells contiguous and 

 parallel, opening introrsely by a longitudinal line. Ovary, 

 &c, as in Viola, but with only 3 or 4 ovules on each pla- 

 centa : style clavate, gibbous and hooked at the apex, the 

 terminal stigma turned to the lower side, simple, perforate. 



Capsule obovoid, obscurely three-lobed, crustaceous, one- 

 celled, three-valved, the valves bearing the 2 - 4-seeded pla- 

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