Alsodeia. | VIOLACER, 69. 
VIOLACEA. 
Flowers regular or irregular, with two bractlets at base. Sepals 
5, persistent, equal or unequal, imbricate. Petals as many, hypogy- 
nous, equal or unequal, imbricate or twisted in bu tamens 5 ; 
filaments short, broad; anthers free or connate, ‘the connective 
broad and produced beyond the cells. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, with 
many anatropous ovules attached to the 3 parietal placentas ; style 
simple; stigma capitate, truncate, or cup-shaped, entire or lobed. 
Fruit a 3-valved capsule, rarely a berry. Albumen fleshy. Embryo 
small, with flat cotyledons.—Herbs or shrubs, rarely small 
trees, with alternate, entire, or pinnatisect ore and stipules. 
An order a little importance, of which 10 species occur in Burma, 
amongst w 4 kinds of violets. The roots of some species are 
more or es sciehie = a few serve also for purgatives, and are used as 
a substitute for ipecacuanha, 
ALSODEIA, Thouars. 
epals 5, almost equal. Petals as many, nearly equal, sessile. 
Stamens 5, inserted inside or on an annular disk, the connective 
produced into a membranous often broad appe Ovary 1. 
celled, with few or many ovules; “tei straight with a termina 
stigma. Capsule 3-valved, few-see s or small trees, with . 
usually alternate leaves and rigid stipalens Flowers small, in clus- 
ters, cymes, or racemes. 
* Stamens exserted ; anthers cohering inacone . A, Roxburghii. 
*k x where include ad; anthers free. 
x and sty yle gla abrous. ~ Capsules aap 
Flowers iaccaied pedice < 3 . A. Bengalensis. 
Flowers in minutely rate racem . A, longiracemosa, 
x 
vary and style pubescent ‘or tomentose, " Cap- 
to mossy-echinate, ‘ 
Flowers clustered, pubese eee ae « oA Bidt ae 
Flowers in cymes ; abies pa pubescent . . lis. 
1. A. Roxburghii, Wall; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 186.—A small shrub, 
the younger parts sprinkled with minute hairs ; leaves elliptical to 
ey ecolate, very shortly petioled, narrowed at base, cre- 
nate, blunt or acute and mucronate, m embranous, pale beneath, 
14-2 in. teas flower very small, greenish-white, in almost sessile 
axillary cluste sepals acute; petals thinly clawed; anthers 
bearded at haan; Ne in a cone; capsules very small, almost 
sessile, glabrous. 
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“oe Hazs.—Not = in the tropical forests of the Andaman Islands —Fl. = 
ae May-June. —s.— SS. ae 
