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IMPATIENS glanduligera. 
Glandular Balsam. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BALSAMINEA (GERANIACEARUM mera sectio). 
IMPATIENS. Linneus. 
I. glanduligera ; annua, erecta, foliis verticillatis ternatis ovato-lanceolatis 
arguté serratis serraturis baseos glandulosis, stipulis teretibus clavatis 
glandulosis, pedunculis axillaribus subterminalibus 3-floris, sepalo dorsali 
integro mutico, calcare brevi inflexo, petalorum lobo altero rotundato 
altero dimidiato oblongo obtuso subfalcato, fructu brevi obovato. 
I. glanduligera. Royle Illustrations, yc. of the Himalaya Mountains, 151. 
t. 98. f. 2. 
This fine Balsam is the largest of the four Indian species 
raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society last year, 
it having attained upwards of twelve feet in height by the 
end of August, although the seeds were not sown before the 
end of May. It is not so hardy as those with the long fruit, 
but flowers freely all the autumn, and is one of the most 
beautiful plants that can be looked upon if grown in an 
atmosphere it likes. What that atmosphere is has already 
been shewn at folio 9 of the present volume, to which I pro- 
ceed to add the following from the work of Dr. Royle, who 
obtained this species from Cashmere seed. 
“ There is a peculiarity in the hill climate of India, where 
the moderation and equability of temperature, excess of mois- 
ture, and consequent smallness of evaporation during the rainy 
season, has been shewn to be favourable to the existence of 
tropical plants. At this season the Balsams may be seen, 
apparently unchanged for weeks together, with other plants 
that delight in a moist temperature, as Orchidese, Seitamines, 
a few Melastomacez, Cyrtandracez, Begonias, the beautiful 
Platystemna violoides, and others of which the genera are 
considered peculiar to a tropical climate; and of so loose, 
moist, and cellular a texture as would at any season in this 
locality be destroyed in a single day." 
