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removal of cutaneous affections ; and Anchietea salutaris is accounted by the 
Brazilians not only a purgative, but also a remedy against similar maladies. 
A. de St. Hilaire remarks, that this notion deserves attention, as connected 
with the depurative properties ascribed in Europe to Viola canina, to which, 
although Anchietea is botanically related, there is nothing in its appearance 
which would have led the Portuguese settlers to attribute the virtues of the one 
to the other. Ihid. no. 19. 
GENERA. 
§ 1. ViOLE®, DC. 
Corynostylis, Mart. 
Calyptrion, Gingins. 
Anchietea, A. St. H. 
Noisettia, H. B. K. 
Glossarrhen, Mart. 
Viola, L. 
Solea, Spreng. 
Pombalia, Vand. 
Pigea, DC. 
lonidium, Vent. 
Hybanthus, Jacq. 
Amphirhox, Spr. 
§ 2. Alsodine®, DC. 
Alsodeia, Pet. Thou. 
Conoria, H. B. K. 
Passoura, Aubl. 
Riana, Aubl. 
Rinorea, Aubl. 
Ceranthera, Beauv. 
Passalia, Soland. 
Physiphora, Soland. 
Lavradia, Vellozo. 
Spathularia, A. St. H. 
Pentaloba, Lour. 
Tachibota, Aubl. 
Salmasia, Schreb. 
Apparently distinct from Violaceae, but not yet sufficiently defined, is the 
Sub-Order SAUVAGESIiE. 
VioLACEiE § Sauvagese, DC. Prod. 1. 315. (1824). — Sauvagesie.®:, Bartl. Ord. Nat. 289. 
(1830). — Sauvagesiace^e, von Martins Conspectus, No. 238. (1835). 
Affinities. Distinguished from Violaceae principally by the stamens 
being opposite the petals, by the anthers not having a membranous termina- 
tion, by the presence of 5 hypogynous scales, and by their fruit having a 
septicidal dehiscence, so that the seeds adhere to the edges and not the centre 
of the valves, and by the strongly ribbed and imbricated calyx. The latter 
character brings them near Hypericaceae, with which they accord in habit, but 
they differ in their stipules and decidedly parietal placentation. They are also 
said to approach Droseraceae ; but this is by no means clear. Aug. de St. Hilaire 
places them in Frankeniaceae, from which their calyx divides them. 
Geography. Natives of the tropics of South America and Africa. 
Properties. Sauvagesia erecta is very mucilaginous, on which account it 
has been used in Brazil for complaints of the eyes, in Peru for disorders of the 
bowels, and in the West Indies as a diuretic, or rather in cases of a slight in- 
flammation. of the bladder. 
GENERA. 
Sauvagesia, Jacq. Luxemburgia, A.St.H. 
Sauvagea, Neck. Plectranthera-, Mart. 
Order XLIV. SAMYDACE^E. 
Samyde^, Vent. Mem. Inst. 2. 142. (1807) ; Gcertn.fll. Carp. 3. 238. 242. (1805) ; Kunth. 
Nov. Gen. 5. 360. (1821) ; DC. Prodr. 2. 47. (1825). 
Essential Character. — Sepals 3, 5, or 7, more or less cohering at the base, usually 
coloured inside ; aestivation somewhat imbricated, very seldom completely valvate. Pe- 
tals 0. Stamens arising from the tube of the calyx, 2, 3, or 4 times as many as the sepals ; 
filaments monadelphous, either all bearing anthers, or alternately shorter, villous or ciliated, 
and alternately bearing ovate 2-celled erect anthers. Ovary superior, 1 -celled; style 1, 
filiform ; stigma capitate, or slightly lobed ; ovules indefinite, attached to parietal placentae. 
Capsule coriaceous, with 1 cell and from 3 to 5 valves, many-seeded, the valves dehiscing 
