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be in racemes as in the other specios. Tho seeds approach in appearence 
those of 0. loplwsperma-, Kurz, but nro more tuberculate. 
Besides the foregoing, there are in the Calcutta Herbarium specimens 
from Perak (King's Collector No. 818) of a Crataeva with leaves ami 
flowers like C. Narmla, 11am. It is, ho we ver, described as having a 
thorny stem, — a character, so far as 1 am aware, not known in this genus. 
This is probably a new species, but, in tho absence of fruit, I do not 
venture to describe it. The seeds appear to me to afford in this variable 
genus safer characters than any other part. 
Order VIII. ViolaceJE. 
Herbs or shrubs. Loaves alternate, entire or serrulate, stipulate. 
Flowers regular or irregular, 2-bracteolate. Sepals 5, persistent, equal 
or unequal, imbricate iu bud. Petals 5, hypogynous, equal or unequal, 
imbricate or contorted in bud. Stamen* 5, filaments short, broad ; 
anthers free or connate, their cells often with apical processes ; connec- 
tive broad, produced beyond the cells. Ovary sessile, 1-celled ; stylo 
simple; stigma capitate truncate or cupular, entire or lobed ; ovules 
many, on 3 parietal placentas, anatropons. Fruit a 3-valved capsule. 
Seeds small, albumen fleshy; embryo straight, cotyledons flat. — Distrib. 
Genera 21, Bpecics ii-iO ; natives of temp, and trop. rogions. 
Tribe I. Vinlece. Corolla irregular; lower petal dissimilar. Slami- 
nodes 0. Capsule loculicidal. 
Sepals produced at the base ... ... 1. Viola. 
Tribe II. Alsodeico. Corolla regular. Staminodes 0. Fruit a loculi- 
cidal capsule. 
2. Alsodeia, 
I, Viola, Linn. 
Herbs, rarely shrubby below. Floivers, on 1-, rarely 2-flowcrod 
peduncles, often dimorphic, some large potalled which ripen few seeds, 
others small potalled or apctalous and very prolific. 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. Capsule 3-valved. Seeds ovoid or globose. — 
Distrib. Species about 100, all temp, regions. 
V. B*»HO$ Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Wall. ii. 449 (not of Cat.), 
and DC. Prodr. i. 20o" ; hirsute or glabrous, stolons or stems usually 
long, leafy and flowering ; leaves ovate-cordate, obtuso or acute, ctenato- 
setrate ; stipules toothed or fimbriate, spur saecate ; sepals acute ; capsules 
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