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appears triangular when seen from above. I add the description which 
would have to be inserted in the Flora of British India on p. 153 after 
Viola Patrinii. 
la bulbosa, Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. Petersburg, xxiii. 
(1877 ) p. 334; glabrous or more or less pilose, stem short from a bulb, 
stoloniferous, leaves orbicular-reniform, very obtuse or broadly ovate, 
base cordate, slightly crenate, petiole winged, stipules narrow, ciliate, or 
eciliate, adnate at the base, flowers white with red €— sepals s subacute, 
ur very short. Masximowicz, Fl. Tang., p. 77, t V. Hookeri, 
. Thoms. partly; V. tuberifera, Franch. in Bull. A Bot. France, 
xxxiii. (1886), p. 410 and Plant. Delavay. p. 79, t. 19 
Temperate Himalaya, alt. 8,800 (?) to 12,000 feet, from Bussahir to 
Bhootan, werd pD; Hooker, Lace.— Distrib. Central Asia, South- 
wes t Chin 
Perennial bulb of the size of a pea or smaller, suprabalbods stem 
end bro 
1-2 in. er. Leaves 4-11 in. broad, crenatures very ad and 
st 2; uud 4-14 in. long, slender. Flowers white, lower 
with purple. Style narrowed d ds from the shortly- 
Seagal | utu minutely lipped stigma. 
O. STAFF. 
CCCCXIX.—MISCELLANEOUS. NOTES. 
India.—Dr. G. King has sent a further collection of some 250 
sheets of new or rare plants, chiefly Malayan, and about 100 sheets of 
Mr. J. S. Gamble's fine Bamboo Herbarium, 
Californian Plants.— Two important collections of dried plants from 
comparatively unexplored regions of California have lately been pre- 
sented to the Herbarium ; the one by Professor E. L. Greene, and the 
other by Professor F. V. Coville. The former consists ccm of. new 
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science, and Kew is fortunate in getting a set of the plants so ably 
discussed and dealt with by the author, who was also the colleetor. 
ticulars of the general distribution of the species represen í 
This small flora is essentially Malayan in character, although more than 
