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* * * Sandwicenses. 



6. Viola Kauaensis, Sp. Nov. 



Y. caulibus gracilibus repentibus ; foliis subcordato-rotundis coriaceis 

 nervosis appresse serratis, dentibus glanduliferis ; stipulis squamaceis 

 ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis setigero-dentatis ; petalis cceruleis calyce 

 subbrevioribus (an semper?), inferiore haud calcarato. 



Hab. On mountains of Kauai, Sandwich Islands, with Drosera 

 longi/olia. 



Stems, or stolons, creeping, flexuose, rather slender, glabrous, fur- 

 nished with rather large, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, squamaceous and 

 broimiish stipules, of which the upper ones are narrower and more acu- 

 minate ; all beset with sharp or bristle-shaped and glandular-tipped teeth. 

 Leaves mostly crowded at the extremity of the floriferous stolons, 

 rounded and slightly cordate, or somewhat reniform, but with the base 

 more or less cuneate-decurrent into the slender petiole, coriaceous, 

 thickly punctate, an inch or less in diameter, closely serrate with 

 obtuse and inflexed-appressed teeth, which bear a gland at their apex, 

 the surface strongly nerved or nervose-veined, and glabrous in the 

 specimens, although said to be hairy in Dr. Pickering's note of the 

 locality, &c. Peduncles li to 2 inches long, nearly the length of the 

 petioles, glabrous, furnished with a pair of linear-lanceolate, slightly 

 glanduliferous bractlets a little below the flower. Sepals oblong- 

 lanceolate, glabrous, thickened and produced at the base. "Petals 

 pale blue," according to Dr. Pickering's notes. The flowers of the 

 specimens are probably late ones, with the petals smaller than when 

 fully developed, as they are not quite so long as the calyx : they are 

 oblong-spatulate ; the lower one a little larger than the others, and 

 only inconspicuously saccate at the base; all of them smooth and 

 beardless. What strengthens the suspicion that these are only such 

 precociously fertilized and cryptopetalous flowers as are produced by 

 many Violets is, that the stamens are scarcely shorter than the petals, 

 all with distinct and rather narrowed filaments, which are longer 

 than the oblong anther-cells, and similar, except that the two lower 

 ones are rather larger : the connective in these merely carinate on the 



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