VIOLA. 
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f. 821 ; KFG. 1. c. f. 4502. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 3 ; cc. Dry 
rocks and sunny banks above 2000 ft. general ; e. g. about the 
Torre de Luta and Arrebentao above the Mount, at the Portella 
of Porto da Cruz, the Encumeado de S. Vicente, &c. Nov.- 
July. — PI. quite smooth, early in the season with short sub- 
cespitose suffrutescent st. and tufts of small cordate orbicular 
scarcely pointed 1., producing numerous fl. in long succession, 
and throwing out, as the spring advances, several trailing but 
never-rooting shoots, 6-12 in. long, bearing more cordate-ovate 
larger 1. and smaller sometimes apetalous or imperfect fl. Pri- 
mordial fl. larger and much handsomer, but much paler and 
clearer blue than in V. odorata L. var. /3. mad., scentless, never 
white. Pet. varying in shape from very broad and oval or 
rounded to oblong or ligulate. Spur white or pale, obtuse, 
varying much in length. — L. crenate mostly as broad as long, 
varying much in size but not in shape except in being more or 
less ovate and pointed, yet never assuming the isosceles-trian- 
gular form of those of the true V. canina L. Early in the year 
or in dry exposed situations starved dwarf pi. with very small 
rounded 1., i in. diam., and large fl. with often short broad 
almost orbicular pet., exactly represent V. jlaricornis Forst. 
(not Smith) in EBS. t. 2736 ( V. canina y. pusilla Bab. ed. 1. 
p. 34). — The modification sylvatica of the original name syl- 
vestris would be very inappropriate to this Viola in Madeira, 
where it is generally found in open sunny places and not at all 
in woods. 
Sect. 2. Melanium DC. ; the 4 upper pet. ascending imbri- 
cated, the 2 uppermost more or less erect, the 2 side pet. and 
the lowest bearded inside at the base. Style ascending, ex- 
panding upwards into the large urceolate stigma labiate below 
with a tuft of hairs on each side. 
3. V. paradoxa Lowe. 
St. suffrutescent branched cespitose procumbent or ascending, 
in flower elongated suberect diffuse ; 1. ternate crenate shining 
on long slender marginate petioles, the lower quite smooth 
rounded or ovate and cordate or truncate at the base, the upper 
subpuberulous spathulate or lanceolate ; stip. simple entire 
spathulate ligulate or linear; sep. oblong-lanceolate entire 
thickly ciliato-pubescent ; spur obtuse much shorter than the 
sep. or pet., longer than the basal calyx-lobes ; anther-spurs 
not half the length of the stam. ; caps, obsoletely 6-angular 
smooth. — Novit. 28 or 550. — Ilerb. per. Mad. reg. 4; rrr. 
Highest bare rocky mountain peaks : 1'ico dos Arrieiros and 
the neighbouring peaks. May-J uly. — An elegant little pi. 
smooth below, finely mealy-puberulous upwards; 1. shining 
dark green, very small and elegant, from to £ an inch long or 
