Seeds of this very interesting little plant were sent by Mr 
Fraser, Colonial Botanist at Sidney, New South Wales, in 
the year 1824, to the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh and 
Glasgow, and in both they blossomed in the month of May. 
They succeed well in the greenhouse. 
There can, I think, be no question of the plant being the 
same as that figured by Labillardiere under the name of 
hederacea. De Candolle enumerates three varieties, but 
w^hich he suspects will prove to be distinct species. 
This pUnt differs remarkably from other violets, not only 
in the stolons (which run down the side of the pot like those 
of Saocifraga sarmentosa), but in the scarcely produced bases 
of the calyx, and in the absence of a true spur. 
Fig. 1. Back view of the calyx. Fig. 2. Flower from which the petals 
have been removed. Fig. 3. Pistil. Fig. 4. Back view, and Fig. 5, 
Front view of a stamen. Fig. 6. One of the upper petals. Fig. 7. One 
of the side petals. Fig. 8. Lower petal. Fig. Q. Side view of a lower 
petal. Fig. 10. Capsule, natural size. Fig. 11. The same open, magni- 
Jied. Fig. 12. Seed. Fig. 13. The same cut open, to shew the albu- 
men, and embryo. — All but Fig. 10. more or less magnified. 
