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Srrc.Cuar. Stoloniferous, slightly hairy : Teaves cordate-ovate, 
crenated: sepals lanceolate; spur short and very blunt: stigma 
yostrate, convex but not hooked: flowers purple. a 
Neilgherries, flowering all the year. 
GENUS I. IONIDIUM. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Jon, a violet, and Fidos, like. 
Gen. Cuar. Low herbaceous plants or under-shrubs: pe-« 
duncles solitary, 1-flowered, jointed, with 2 bracteoles above the 
middle: sepals and petals unequal, lower petal longer than the rest: 
stamens close together: filaments with the anthers low down, not 
terminated by bristles: capsule valves not elastic. 
(1) I. surrguticosum. (Ging.). 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 32.—Dec. prod, I. p. 31t. 
Syn. 1. frutescens, Ging.—Dec. prod. 1. c.—Solea enneasperma, 
Spr. Syst. I. p. 804.- 
Engrav, Wight’s Ic. t. 308.—Rheede Mal. 9. t. 60. 
Spec. Cuar. Stems pubescent, branched near the base: upper 
leaves oblong-lanceolate, more or less pubescent, toothed or serrat- 
ed, lower ones broader: sepals strongly keeled :, lower petal obtuse, 
orbicular, with a long claw: seeds 9, longitudinally furrowed: flow 
ers small, pinkish. 
Peninsula. Bengal. Flowering nearly all the year. 
(2) I. enneaspermum. (Venin.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 33. 
Syn. I. heterophyllum, Dec. prod. I. p. 308.—T. capense, do. 
Viola enneasperma, Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 650.—V. suffruticosa, Roxb. 
fi. Ind. I. p. 649.—V. frutescens, Roth. Nov. Sp. p. 166.— 
Solea erecta, Spr. Syst. I. p. 804. 
Engrav, Wight’s Ill. I. t. 19.—Pluk. t. 120. f. 8.—Burm., 
Zeyl. t. 85. 
Srxc. Cuar. Suffrutescent: spreading, or half erect, with sim- 
ple branches: upper leaves linear-lanceolate; sepals slightly keeled: 
lower petal nearly orbicular, acute at each end: seeds 9, furrowed: 
flowers pink. 
South Concans. Peninsula. Flowering nearly alt the year. 
(3 I. wexasrermMum. (Dailz.) 
Ident. Hook. Jour. Bot. IV. p. 342. 
Syn. Viola erecta, Roth. Nov. Sp. p. 165.—I. erectum, Deo,’ 
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