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442 XXXII. GERAXiACE^.' (§ Balsaminece, Hook, f.) [impatiens. 



' B IV. — SxTBUMBELLATiE. Leaves all alternate, very rarely opposite. 

 Peduncles usually fascicled towards the top of the stem or branches, many- 

 flowered. Flowers in interrupted racemes, subumbelled or whorled, often 

 large purplish, small and yellow in /. radiata. (Sp. 107-111.) 



B v.-^RACEMOSiE. Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite. ■ Feduiides 

 usually fascicled towards the top of the stem or branches. Flowers often 



small, in uninterrunted racemes, usnallv vellow. 



(Sp. 112-122.) 



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A. Capsule short, trapezoid or ellipsoid. 



A I.— SCAPIGEItiE. 



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Spur shorter than ihejlower or 0. . Wings 2-lohed^ except in L orchioides. 



1. X. Beddomei, Hook.f. ; quite glabrous, leaves^ orbicular or reniform- 

 cordate, bracts obtuse or subacute, standard short broader than long, 

 wing-lobes 3 subequal retuse, spur incurved clavate obtuse. I. scapiflora, 

 Tr. <t A. Prodw 137 in part ; Wight III. t. 967 ; H,f. & T. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, iv. 118 ; pcdz. d* Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 43, notof Ileyne, ; ; 



Mountains of Malabar: near Dodabet, Coonnoor, and elsewhere in the Nilgliins, 

 Wight ' ,--'^ 



A foot h!gb or less. Leaves 1-4 in. diam., fleshy, quite entire or obscurely crenate- 

 serrate ; nerves flabellate. llactmes 1-4 in. ; bracts broadly ovate ; pedicels sl6nde^ 

 Fhnvers \m,&\dim.\ sepals broadly and obliquely ovate ; wings with three su|j?*l"*^ 

 fihort truncate retuse lobes; spur rather shorter than the flower. Capsule J in., elUpti • 

 Seeds minute, granulate.— Being obliged to find a new- name for this beautiful plant, i 

 have selected that of Col. Beddome, who has made the Peninsular species his speci.* 

 study. • 





2. X. modesta, Wight in Madr. Joum. v. 13; Ic t. 968; leaves ovate- 

 cordate acute crenate-serrate sparsely hairy above, bracts with thicKeniu 

 tips, standard short broader than long, wings with 3 subequal obtuse loD^ 

 spur recurved short obtuse. I. tenuis, Bedd. in Madr. Journ. ser. 2, iv. ^i 

 t, 7, 1 U ; Ic. FL Ind. Or. p. 31. ^^ yj - « ' 4 



Mountains of Malabar; Nilghiri, and Sivagherry hills, Wight Anamallay bil 3, 

 alt. 5-7000 ft., Beddome. s j > - . 



A foot high or less. Leaves 1-5 



each side of the petiole. Scape very 



i in. ; basal lobes rounded, ^vith a rounded sm^^ 

 very slender; raceme 1-2 in. ; pedicels capiu ; 



bracts much smaller and narrower than in BeddomeL Flowers J iu. ^^^fV^^J 

 sepals small. Capsule k-k in., elliptic, acute at both ends. Seeds mmute.- ir J^ 



pubescent on the surface, Beddome.) 



3. I. Stocksii, H. / dc ^. in Journ 

 quite glabrous, leaves orbicular oblong oi 

 acute or rounded, bracts acute, standard 

 less. Lalz. d: Gibs. Bomb. Fl<yr. 42. 



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Mountains of the Concax, Law, Stocks. \ ,. v,^^^ tip 



Much the smallest of the Scapigerous section, 1-4 in. -^^^^^'^ « f /^ Vpeiicel* 

 obtuse or rounded, nerves flabellate ; petiole as long or shorter than the ^^^.^®/A^ 

 thick for the size of the plant ; bracts small, ovate. Flowers few, 3-6. ^^^ 'uomboii; 

 ovate, obtuse; standard as broad as long, not very concave, obtuse,' ^^^"f^. eUiptiCi 

 wings with three obtuse lobes, the lower rather the longest. CapsvXe X}^"' 

 turgid, acute. >Se€(fe minute, liuear-oblong. ^f m. , -f^.^ii <1 



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4: X. crenata, Bedd. in Madr. Journ. ser. 2, iv. 69, t.J, £ J^^ /teiT 

 r*""- J'''- P- 31 ; leases, orbicular-reniform or' cordate, crenate, a*-'**' 



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