AD FLORAM INDICAM (BALSAMINEX). 126 
Leschenaultii is probably a more robust, smaller leaved and flowered state 
of this plant. Thwaites (Enum. p. 65), who unites bipartita, Arn., with 
cuspidata, vemarks that the anterior lobe of the petal varies a good deal. 
I have a specimen marked I. cuspidata, W.& A., by Gardner, and gathered 
by himself on the Nilgherries, in which the capsule is 4” long, and the 
leaves, almost all alternate, have long soft spines at the base and on the 
petiole. 
I have no doubt of this being Linnzeus’s I. latifolia, having examined 
the plant so named in the Linnean Herbarium ; it consists of only the 
top of the stem, with the upper alternate leaves and one very large 
flower, with a curved spur that is forked at the tip for a long way 
up. There is no authority for the specimen in Linnzus's Herbarium, 
but I. bifida is written on the paper; so this is probably the original 
I. bifida, Thunb., described by Thunberg as having a bifid spur, and 
erroneously supposed to have been a native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
where it has never since been found. 
21. I. LuciDA (Heyne іп Wall. Cat. 4733 1). Glabra, ramosa, foliis 
(2-4") longe petiolatis membranaceis inferioribus alternis, vel aliis 
oppositis aliis alternis lanceolatis ovato-lanceolatisve acuminatis cre- 
natis basi setosis, pedicellis subsolitarüs, sepalis parvis ovatis acumi- 
natis, labello concavo calcare elongato gracili, vexillo obovato, айз bi- 
lobis, lobis obovatis.—An. var. I. latifolia, L., floribus minoribus ? 
I. latifolia, Wt. & Arn. Prodr. 138; Wall. Cat. 4737! non Linn. 
Hab. Mont. tropicis Malabarie ! Heyne, Wight, Gardner. 
Herba 1-2’, caule basi crassiusculo. Petioli 3-1", graciles. Folia sub- 
nitida, utrinque angustata, flaccida. Flores pro planta parvi, 4-2” lati, 
albi v. pallide rosei (Wight). Capsula 4 unc. longa, elliptica, turgida, 
utrinque attenuata, glabra v. pilosa. Semina sub 4, magna, oblonga, 
compressa, opaca, grosse reticulata. 
Wight and Arnott remark that this differs from I. Leschenaultii in the 
densely pubescent capsules, but I find that to be a very inconstant cha- 
racter. 
22. I. LEscBENAUUTII (D.C. Prodr. i. 686; Wall. Cat. 4739). Suf- 
fruticosa, glaberrima, ramosissima, folis 1-13 pollicaribus plerisque 
oppositis petiolatis lanceolatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis serratis, 
pedicellis solitariis v. binis, sepalis parvis ovato-subulatis, labello 
saccato acuminato calcare elongato gracili curvo, vexillo late obovato 
rostellato, alis bilobis lobis obovatis. — Wight & Arn. Prodr. 136. 
An var. I. latifolie, L.? ; Wight, p. 970 bis. 
Hab. Mont. Ceyloniz, Leschenault (fid. D.C.) et Malabariæ ! frequens, 
Wight, &c. (fl. tot. ann.). 
Suffrutex 8-pedalis, ramosus, foliosus, caulibus ramisque suboppositis 
crassiusculis. Folia subcoriacea, petiolo 1-3" longo. Flores fere 1” 
diametr., pallide rosei v. albi. Capsule et semina I. latifolie simillima 
sed minora.— Potius varietas I. latifolie, rigidior, densior, foliis mino- 
ribus, brevius petiolatis, magis serratis. 
