plant described and figured in the Flora sibirica of Gmelin, 
which makes the difference palpable, and leaves it beyond 
dispute. Nor do we recognise our plant in any recorded 
Viora. In the Banksian Herbarium we find specimens of 
it received from the Chevalier Pallas, which were gathered 
on the Altay mountains in Siberia, on the confines of the 
chinese dominions. It has a flower that varies in size, but 
which is always larger than the leaf, and the largest of any 
Species known to us. The foliage varies from ovate rounded 
and longer than the petiole, to oval and slightly attenuated 
each way, but especially towards the petiole, which is then 
longer than that: a variation perceptible even in the two 
spontaneous specimens of the Banksian Herbarium. The 
whole plant is smooth, the peduncles robust, resem- 
bling scapes, and as well as the calyx of a livid blueish 
green; spur of the corolla scarcely extended beyond the 
lobes of the calyx. The blossom cannot be said to be fra- 
grant, yet when smelled near, a bitterish, but not un- 
pleasant odour is perceptible. ) 
Being still rare, it is carefully kept in garden-pots in a. 
frame or pit with the alpine plants. But seeding freely, ° 
and being easily propagated by parting the root, it will 
scan be common, and may then be treated like other hardy 
violets. 
Its introduction is known to have been from Russia; 
but we have not ascertained precisely the time when it 
came, by whom sent, nor by whom received. 
‘We should observe, that flowers produced early in the 
summer are often more than twice the size of those pro- 
duced at a more advanced period of the year. 
The drawing was made from a plant in the nursery of 
Messrs. Fraser, in Sloane Square. It flowers for months 
in succession. 
a 
a The stamens and pistil as they appear when the corolla and calyx are 
removed. 6 Three from the body of the five cohwrent stamens detached 
and extended: magnified. c A single stamen, showing the short filament, 
large anther with the membranous appendix on its summit: magnified, 
d Pistil, showing the ovate trisulcate germen, short style, and urceolate 
Stigma: magnified, ; 
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