186 XIII. vioLACE^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 



Abundant from Bdndelkukd and Aqea, to BEifeAL and Ceylon. — Disteib. Tropica)" 

 Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Very variable, 6-12 in., perennial ; branches dififuse, woody. Leaves 1 J-2 by ^j-J ''n-j 

 subsessile ; stipules subulate, gland-tipped. Flowers red ; pedicels shorter than the 

 leaves. Petals variable, 4 oblong acute or mucronate, the 5th with a long claw, and 

 large oval or orbicular limb. Seeds striate. 



2. X. ramosissimum, Thwaites Enum. 21 ; leaves closely imbricate 

 narrow-linear quite entire glaucous, flowers solitary. 



CErLON, banks of the Mahawelliganga at Havagam, Thwaites. 

 Shrubby, suberect, 6-8 in., branches suberect. Leaves 1-lJ in., mucronate, veinless, 

 margins recurved. Flowers as in /. suffruticosvm. 



3. AX.SODEXA, Thouars. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite), distichous ; secondary 

 nerves often numerous and parallel. Stipules rigid. Flowers small, axil- 

 lary or terminal, solitary fascicled cymose or racemose, regular ; peduncles 

 with many bracts. Sepals 5, subequal, rigid. Petals 5, subequal, sessile. 

 Stamens 5, inserted inside or on an annular disk ; connective produced into 

 a long or short often broad membranous appendage. Ovary ovoid ; style 

 straight, stigma terminal ; ovules few or many. Capsule 3-valved, few- 

 seeded. /Sse3s glabrous in the E. Ind. species. — Distkib. Species about 40, 

 chiefly tropical American. 



Sect. I. Doryctandra, Hassk. (Gen.). Stamens exserted, filaments 

 slender ; anthers cohering in a cone. 



1. A. Roxburg'bli, Wall. Cat. 7189 (Pentaloba 1) ; branchlets pubes- 

 cent on one side, leaves glabrous small elliptic or cuneate lanceolate obtuse 

 subcrenate perforate at the nerve axils beneath, flowers fascicled glabrous. 

 Am. in Mag. Zool. and Bot. ii. 343. Vareca heteroclita, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 648. 

 Doryctandra Roxburghii, Hassk. in Retzia. i. 126. 



OuDE, Geml. Martin; Silhet, WaUich; Andamahs, Kurs. 



A small shrub ; branchlets compressed. Leaves 1-1^ by 4-| in., sessile, pale be- 

 neath, nerves few, venules obsolete. Stipules J in., subulate from a" broad base. 

 Flowers subsessile, ^ in. diam., white. Sepals unequal, obtuse. Petals h'near, tips 

 revolute. DisTc 10-toothed. Filaments glabrous ; anthers white, narrow-linear, almost 

 as long as the filaments, base of cells tomentose ; appendage oblong, obtuse. Ovary 

 glabrous ; style filiform, pubescent. Capsule 1, few-seeded. 



Sect. II. Stamens included ; anthers free. Disk cupular. 

 * Ovary and style glabrous. 



2. A. bengalensls, Wall, in Trans. Med. and Phys. Soc. Calc. vii. 224 ; 

 glabrous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate serrulate, nerve-axils beneath bearded, 

 stipules slender, flowers fascicled, filaments very short, tip of connective 

 short broad. Pentaloba 1 bengalensis, Wall. Cat. 4896 ; Am, in Mag. Zool. 

 and Bot. n. S42. 



Silhet, WaUich, Griffith; Akdamans, Kurz. 



A shrub or small tree? Leaves 3-5 by lj-2i in., shining, tip obtuse ; petiole J in. 

 Stipules 4 in., narrow lanceolate. Peduncles f-^ in., 1-flowered, glabrous or pube- 

 rulous ; bracts minute, basal, ovate, subacute. Flowers J in. diam., glabrous. Se:pals 

 broad, ovate, ^ the length of the oblong-ovate petals. Tlislc, thick, 5-lobed. Anthers 

 glabrous, oblong. CapsiM J in., quite glabrous, 3-4-seeded. 



