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IMPATIENS candida. 
White Balsam. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BALSAMINACEX. 
IMPATIENS. Botanical Register, 1840. ¢. 8. 
I. candida ; caule erecto, foliis verticillatis angusté lanceolatis acuminatis 
arguté serratis basi utrinque glandulosis, pedunculis terminalibus mul- 
tifloris, sepalo dorsali inermi emarginato, calcare brevi incurvo, petalo- 
rum biloborum lacinia alteri nana cirrhata alterd lanceolata acuminata 
crispa. Bot. Reg. 1840. mise. no. 204. 
Caulis orgyalis, strictus, ramosus, succosus, obtuse quadrangulus. Folia 
ternatim verticillata, lanceolata, acuminata, petiolata, denticulis roseis secus 
petiolum glandulosis fimbriata; glandulea quedam conformes sed majores etiam 
inter petiolos interjacent. Umbelle terminales, multiflore, nutantes. Invo- 
lucra sub-pentaphylla ; foliolis ovatis acuminatis pedicellis brevioribus. Flores 
magni, candid. 
A noble species, inhabiting the Himalayan mountains, 
whence it has been imported by the Honourable Court of 
Directors of the East India Company, who presented its seeds 
to the Horticultural Society. 
It forms a stately annual, with brittle succulent stems, 
about six feet high, bright green, obtusely quadrangular, and 
branched from the very ground. The leaves are narrow- 
lanceolate, tapered to a fine point, arranged in whorls of three 
and edged with very fine crimson teeth. Between each pair 
of leaves there stands a row of crimson glands, apparently in 
the place of stipules. The flowers are large, showy, white, 
a little speckled with crimson, and appear in loose terminal 
umbels. They are produced in succession during all the 
months of autumn. 
This fine plant, like all the others of the same genus, 
lately figured in this work, is, properly speaking, a tender 
annual, requiring to be kept during all the summer in a 
