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Mountains of Malabar, Eeyne ; Bababud, Herb. Bottler. -a 



A specimen of this plant in Kottler's Herbarium, labelled by himself "Z scapflora^ 

 Heyne/' may, I assume, b^ regarded as authentic for the plant discovered by the 

 author of the species. It is certainly not the plant which bears this name in the 

 Linnean Journal (see/. Beddomel)^ which has a short spur and 2-partite wings ; it en- 

 tirely resembles round-leaved forms of /. ocawZw, except in the 2-partite wiiig8. Aw 

 leaves are evidently fleshy, obscurely crenate, with racfiating nerves; the 6 roc/s thick, 

 and scape and pedicels stout. Flowers 1 in. diam. ; segments of wings recurved-falcate 

 linear, rather broad, tips rounded. ; ■ '■ 



8. 1. rivalis, Wiglit in Madr. Jmrn. v. 13, t. 8; Ic t. 751; leaves 



ovate-cordate with an acute sinus or a rounded base or elliptic and acute ai 

 both ends creuate-serrate usually hairy above, standard broader than long 

 vaulted, wings 3-partite, spur very long. E.J\ & T. in Jouni. Ltnn.m 



IV. 119, 





Mountains of the Concan, Canara, Malabar, and Travancor, alt. 5-8000 ft. :i 



Very variable in stature, 6-18 in. high: Leaves extremely variable in ^^^^ ^' 

 pubescenge, feather-nerved, never orbicular-reniform with a broad sinus as m i. sc ^ 

 fora and i)e/i2sonu.— Except by the wings I do not see how some specimens a^^^ 

 distinguished from L acaulis, but Beddome says they " never could be ^^^^^^^^^ on* 

 cept in dried examples;" he reduces his verrucosa to this species (Ic. PI. Ind. Ur. p > 



Var. 1. leaves 2-5 in, ovate-obloni:: hairy acute, base rounded or cordate. tf 

 Ic. t 757. r - 



Var. 2. leaves 4-8 in. elliptic acute at both ends, petiole as long very stouL- 

 Concan, Stocks, - * -i. ' sur- 



f Var. 3. leaves 3-4 in. ovate-cordate, wings with a batch of warts on the upper 

 face,. I, verrucosa, Bedd. in Madr. Joum. iv. 69, t. 7, f. 9. / 'i^'--^^ 





9. X. Denlsonii, Bedd. /c, PL Ind. Or. p. 30, t. 151 ; leav^ ^T^*t Jrf^d 

 obtuse or acute crenate pilose above base deeply 2-lobed sinus d^ j 

 scape and pedicels very long and slender, standard broadly ovate vau 

 wings 3-partite bearded on the inner face, lateral segment witii a^»^^ 

 appendage enclosed in the long recurved spur. x^^^^'^^'^^^'' 



Njlghjri Mts. ; abundant in the Sisparah ghat, alt. 4-5000 ft., Beddome. '^ j^ 



Apparently very near to L rivalis, differing in the deeply 2-lobed base *>t ^"^^^^ 



smaller flowers, (f in. diam.) with much narrower and longer segments to ine j^ 



and m the curious filiform appendages of the latter that descend into the spur ^^ 



racemosa, and which are no doubt concerned in the process of fertilization. ^ "^ 



that Herb. Wight. Kew Disirib. 310 is referable to this, not to /. acaulis. 





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Spur as long as the flower or longer. 



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10. 1. cbinensls, Linn. ; glabrous, atem angled, leaves a^ op^^^ 

 subsessile linear-oblong or (ibovate, stipules setaceous, ^ep^ ^^^ 

 standard orbicular, wings semi-obovate entire base auncled, sp .^ 

 slender incurved. Dalz. & Gils. Bomb. Ft. 42 ; H.f. <^ T. *» ;;'^"'Jf ^i. 

 Soc. iv. 119. I. fasciculata, Lamk. Diet. i. 359: Wi^ht Ic. t. 74«, ''^ ^^^ 



Prodr. 138 J Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4631. I. heterophyUa. "^a/^i,*" , ^/t' 13'- 

 ed. Carey, ai 408 ; Gat. 4748. I. setacea, Cohb. in Uook. Exottio'. ^ 





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Balsamina fasciculata and B. chineusis, DC. Prodr. i. 686. 



Mai, ix. t. 47. '-^ ^Tr»- 



f -Bhotan, Griffith; mountains of the Western PENiNsri^A, f^^^fP!^^^Kti^' 

 vancor, alt. 5-8000 ft ; Khasia Mts., alt. 3^5000 ft. ; Birma, WallicnrJ 

 Mdfer; MalaccI, Griffith.- Dibt^ib, China, ^.li ^- ns^ a^a-'>->^*^^w wiorf^ 

 4 veiy variable and beautiful plant. Stm 4-16 in., erect from a n)o»^& ^ 



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