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Folia occurrunt ovatooblonga et linearioblonga basi 

 ac medio aequilata obtusa vel basi latiora acuta v. 

 acuminata. Flos plantae sibiricae et vernalis man- 

 dshuricae 8 mill. , serior et ille pi. japonicae 1 5 mill, 

 longus, calcari scrotiformi calyce duplo v. vix breviore, 

 albus v. lilacino leviter suffusus, fundo striatus. Planta 

 himalaica alpina laminam petiolo longiorem , cetera 

 omnis multo breviorem habet. 



ß. chinevsis Ging, in DC. 1. c. : flore profunde viola- 

 ceo imberbi v. parce barbato longius et saepè graci- 

 lius calcarato majore (13 — 23 mill, longo). — V. pri- 

 mulifolia Lour. Fl. cochinch. 628. ex descr. — Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. I. 650. — V. P. y. napaulensis Ging. 1. c. — 

 F. caespitosa Don Prodr. fl. Nepal. 205. (1825.). — 

 V. chinensis G. Don Gard. syst. I. 322. (1831.). — 

 V. prionantha Bge Enum. Chin. n. 44. — V. Patrini 

 Bth. FL Hongk. 20.— Wight. Fl. Ind. I. 32.— Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 183. (excl. syn. nonnull.). — V. P. 

 et var. Gmeliniana (specc. vernalia) Miq. Prol. 84. 

 — V. P. var. meter antha Maxim. 1. c. 



Hab. in Mandshuria: ad Amur superiorem et austra- 

 lem et meridiem versus usque ad fines Koreae frequens, 

 tota Japonia et China et late dispersa in Indiae orien- 

 talis montibus usque ad Ceylonam. 



Planta vernalis in siccioribus v. alpinis crescens 

 laminam foliorum habet petiolo longiorem (typus V. 

 caespitosae Don, Buchan.î), pratorum humidiorum 

 simillimam illi var. a., quacum in Mandshuria et circa 

 Hakodate mixta occurrit. Calcar plantae indicae eras- 

 sum calyce vix brevius, illi var. a. simillimum, tale 

 occurrit rarius et in mandshurica, chinensi et japonica, 

 saepius tarnen in eadem calyce longius invenitur, de- 



