100 30. GERANIACE.S. 



Oxalis Reinwardtii, Zucc in Abhand. Bayer. Akad. i. p. 274 ; Walp . 

 Rep. i. p. 476 ; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 9, partim. 



Kwangttjng : banks of the West river (Hance, 4834 !). Herb. 

 Kew. 



India ; Java. 



2. Biophytum sensitivum, DC. Prodr. i. p. 690; Hook.f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. i. p. 436. 



Oxalis sensitiva, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1, p. 434 ; Lour. FL Cochineh. 

 p. 285 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 68 ? 



China, without locality (Fortune ex Lindley) ; Kwangttjng : 

 near Macao (Hance, 4834, in part !). Herb. Kew. 



Very widely diffused in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



1. Averrhoa Carambola, Linn. Sp. Fl. ed. 1, p. 428 ; DC. Frodr. 



p. 689 ; Lour. Fl. Cochineh. p. 288 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 56. 



Kwangtung : Macao (Millett !) ; Hongkong ( Wright I Har- 

 landl). Herb. Kew. 



Now widely dispersed; native country uncertain, probably 

 America. 



Osbeck (Voy., Eng. ed., i. p. 306) cites Averrhoa Bilimbi, Linn., 

 perhaps by mistake for A. Carambola. 



1. Impatiens arguta, Hook. f. et T. Thorns, in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iv. p. 137; Hook.f. Fl, Brit. Ind. i. p. 470. 



Yunnan .- Momein (Anderson !). Herb. Kew. 



Bhotan, Sikkim, and Khasia mountains. 



There is a very imperfect specimen of a second species on the 

 same sheet, which we were unable to identify with any published 

 one, but it is insufficient for description. 



2. Impatiens Balsamina, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 938; Lour. 

 Fl. Cochineh. p. 312 ; Hook.f. Fl, Brit. Ind. i. p. 453. 



Balsamina hortensis, Desf. in Diet. Sc. Nat. iii. p. 485 ; DC. Prodr. 

 i. p. 485. 



Shantung (Fauvel ex Franchet) ; Fokien : Amoy (Cunningham 

 in herb. Sloane, eclxvii. p. 20!); Kwangtung : Macao (Tate I). 

 Herb. Kew. 



Common throughout tropical and subtropical India and 

 Malaya, often only as an escape from cultivation, as it probably 

 is in China. 



3. Impatiens chinensis, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 937 ; Lour. Fl. 

 Cochineh. p. 511 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 55. 



