182 XII. HESEDACEiE. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Oehradmus. 



3. OCHXtADENVS, Delile. 



Much branched shrubs ; branches slender. Leaves small, linear. Flowers 

 spiked or racemed, often polygamous. Calyx 5-partite. Petals 0. Disk 

 unilateral. Stamens 10-20, inserted within; the disk. Ovary ovoid, closed 

 at the top, 3-beaked ; ovules many, on 3 placentas. Beiry many-seeded. — 

 DiSTEiB. Species 2, a Spanish and the following. 



1. O. baccatus, Delile Fl. ^g. 15, t. 31, f. 1 ; leaves fleshy scattered 

 linear-spathulate, racemes terminal, flowers minute. J . Mull. Monog..^^\ 

 Bohi. Fl. Orient, i. 422 ; Griff. It. NoUs, 228, No. 208. 



SiNDH, Vicofry, &o. — Uistrib. Westwards to Sjria and Egypt. 



Shrubby, 6-12 ft. ; brandies glabrous, leafless when old. Leaves \-l^ in. ; stipules 

 minute or 0. JJacemes rigid ; flowers yellowish, 1-2-sexual. Stamens W-Vl. Berry 

 small, white. Seeds few, large. , 



Order XIH. VIOLACE.ffi. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or pinnatisect, stipulate. 

 Flowers regular or irregular, 2-bracteolate. Sepals 5, persistent, equal or 

 unequal, imbricate ia bud. Petals b, hypogynous, equal or unequal, imbri- 

 cate or contorted in bud. Stamens 5, filaments short, broad ; anthers free 

 or connate, connective broad, produced beyond the cells. Ovavy sessile, 

 ,1-celled ; style simple, stigma capitate truncate or cupular entire or lobed ; 

 ovules many, on 3 parietal placentas, anatropous. Fruit a 3-valved capsule, 

 rarely a berry. Seeds small, albumen fleshy ; embryo straight, cotyledons 

 flat. — DiSTRjB. Genera 21, species 240 ; natives of temp, and trop. regions. 



Tribe I. Violese. Corolla irregular ; lower petal dissimilar. Stami- 

 nodes 0. Capsule loculicidal. 



Sepals produced at the base 1. Viola. 



' I not produced at the base 2. Iohidium. 



Tmbk II. Alsodeieee. Corolla regular. Stamiiiodes 0. Fruit a berry 

 or loculicidal capsule. 



3. Alsodeia. 



1. VIOIiA, Linn. 



Herbs, rarely shrubby below. Flowers, on 1-, rarely 2-flowered peduncles, 

 often dimorpMc, some large petalled which ripen few seeds, others small 

 petalled or apetalous and very proliflc. Sepals produced at the base. Petals 

 erect or Spreading, lower largest, spurred or saccate at the base. Anthers 

 connate, connectives of two lower often spurred at the base, Style clavate 

 or truncate, tip straight or oblique, stigma obtuse lobed or cupular. Cap- 

 sule 3-valyed. Seeds ovoid or globose. — Disteib. Species about 100, all 

 temp, regions. 



The Pansy or Heartsease {Viola tricolor) occurs occasionally in India, as an escape 

 from cultivation. 



* Stigma obliquely 2-lobed, not beaked ; lobes short, spreading. 



1. V. biflora, L. ; glabrous or pubescent, leaves reniform, stipules 

 ovate or oblong, flowers yelloWj sepals linear-obtuse, spur very short. V. 



