Upon comparing this with the Indian species already pub- 
lished we find nothing to which it can be considered referable, 
although it approaches closely to several. ‘The common 
garden Balsam itself for instance is not very distinct, except 
in the large size of the flowers, in the shorter and broader 
leaves, and in a longer spur. J. longifolia has quite the same 
foliage and habit, but its spur is long and straight, which, 
together with its small flowers, renders it incomprehensible 
how Wight and Arnott should have referred it to the common 
Balsam as a simple variety. Impatiens coccinea is much more 
like this than any of the others, but its leaves are shorter, and 
its sepals are clothed with dense downiness, of which there is 
no trace in the plant before us; its back sepal too is not so 
suddenly and finely tapered to a point. 
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