Viola annamensis Baker f. 

Viola annamensis Baker f.  

Kew; Samadhi plant

Description: Perenni, Folia ovata vel tiangulari-oyata, margine serrata, glauca, glabra. vel fere glabra, apice acuta, basi cuneata, graciliter peti olata, lamina 15-20 mm. longa, 13-18 mm. lata, petiolo 10-18 mm. lango suffulta. Pedunculi graciles, pubescentes, bibracteolati , apice reflexi. Flores parviusculi, solitarii , pallide vio1aceo-albi. SelJala lanceolata, omnia deorsum in appendices producta, lineis notata 4.5-5.0 mrn. longa. Petala patentia, inferius deorsum in calccar breve prodnctum. Stylus superne clavatus. Capsula  ignota Flowers pale violet, lip white streaked with dark viollet. A plant with glabrous glaucous foliagc and rather srnall flowers with a short saccate spur.  The petioles are slend er.

Distribution: Native Asia-Tropical INDO-CHINA: Vietnam

Habitat: Da Lat, 5,000 ft. (ca 1500 m)

Reference:

• The journal of the Natural History Society of Siam  4: 128 (1921)  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/11908