446 XXXII. GERANiACE^. (§ Balsaminete, Hook, f.) [Inipattens. 



orbicular, wings with lonEr claws broadly obovate almost entire, spur 

 slender, capsule narrow. Wight Ic. t. 884 ; //./<& T. in Jourv. Linn. boc. 

 lY. 122; Bah, <i:Gihs. Bomb /Flor. 43. I. tenella. Fa//. Ca/. 4746 B. Balsa- 

 mina minor, DC. Prodr. i. 686.— Elteede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 50, 51. .. '. ;,. : 



. Mountains of the Western Peninsula, from the Concan southwards, common in the 



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A slender herb, rarely 1 ft. high ; branches opposite, spreading.^ ' Xeave* 1-2^ w ^ 

 very variable, glabrous or pilose above, glaucous beneath, rarely sessile, usually nar- 

 rowed into a slender petiole. Fcdicels slender, solitary or twin, reflexed m inia 

 Flowers J in. diam., violet-purple ; spur hardly exceeding the flower or longer, more 

 less ascending. Capsule ^ in., ellipsoid-lanceolate. Seeds few, subglobose, blacK, 

 shining.— The small flower, long spur, entire clawed wings, and small ^^P?'*^?^^^ i-.j 

 globose seeds together best distinguish this variable plant. I never fiu4 the gem^ 

 to have a line of pubescence as in /. tenella and inconsjpicua, ' *■ ' ""> 



15. I. diversifolia, Wall Cat 4749 ; diffuse ^4th ascending ^rancliej 

 quite glabrous, leaves all opposite faintly serrate lower shortly petioi 



elliptic or oblong obtuse, upper sessile linear-oblong or ^^S^^'^*^^. y^^^te 

 date, sepals linear acuminate, standard small, wings broadly semi-ooova , 

 spur long filiform, w ^^ ^ p^.^/^ iqq. a/ f A/> T in .Tourn. Ltnn. o^ 

 iv. 121 

 HoIuriacL 27b. ..^... 



Westekv' Peninsula, from Canara to Malabar, Heyne, &c. ; Quilon, 1 ,'^ ' 

 Bababoodan hills. Law. ■',' % r ' l 3in^ 



Stevis very succulent, a foot or more long, rooting at the nodes. .^^^^J ^^^^ 

 the lower smallest and usuaTFy petioled, upper often dilated at the base, » « t-^j, 



[ defined, all very flaccid when dry ; stipules obscure, glandular. ^ ^^ 



epais nnear acummaie, stanaara smaii, wmgs uiuax^^j ^^*^*"- 

 )ng filiform. W. & A. Prodr. 139 ; U. f. & T, in Journ L'nn^^^ 

 . 1. heterophyUa, Wall. Cat. 4748 B, I. Arnottiana, i/t2- ^'^ ^^' 





[uicK, innaiea, equalling or exceeaing the tlower. i^apsmt 9. "*■» ."VVr Ugpl^^^^ 

 ^eecls globose, dark brown, smooth, shining. — Copious specimens m Wignt s . ^^^jj^^ji 

 prove this to be a very variable plant, sometimes of considerable size, and not t^^^jiy 

 species it was assumed to be in the Linnean Journal. Some specimens, p ^^^ 

 gathered in marshy places, have very thick succulent stems and lai^ ,^^ i! ^^fr ^ 

 when dry, and others are yo^ry slender with leaves not \ in. in breadth. . - ^^ '■ ;' -; ,, 



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16. I. ligrulata, Bedd. in Madr. Journ. sen 2, iv. 67, t. 7, f. ^ v J^ye 

 Ind. Or. p. 30, t. 149 ; branched, erect, glabrous, leaves unitormsu ,^3 

 linear-ligulate mucronate base cordate remotely serrate liispip ^^^T^' g^^iate. 

 setaceous or 0, pedicels with a pubescent line, sepals ^"^^^^. LiTnind 

 standard small, lateral wing-lobes broad almost ^^^^^^^^T^^n'^^ stout 

 very slender descending into the spur, spur as long as the no ^ . ,^ 



incurved. 



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leaves, 

 about 



Mountains of Travancor and Malabak, alt. 1-2500 ft , Beddome. ^-i^'^jnlforffi 

 Stem 1-2 ft.j branches slender, spreading. Leaves 3-4 in., ^°"|^^^j 'J^ioled lo^er 

 in all the specimens, though probably the species occurs with broad ana pt ^ -^u^ef^ 



Pedicels 1 or more, very slender, about half the length of the *^^^^^\^^ (7af 

 1 in., pink or white ; standard with a dorsal pubescent line ; *!PF j?___\Yiien dry >^ 

 side ellipsoid, swollen in the centre. Seeds about 12, glabrous, ^*^™"f ' i -igg of /• *•" 

 is difficult, except by the spur, to distinguish this from °*r^*^^"^®,*r r the spur, (^^ 

 compkua, tenella, and oppositifolia ; and, except from the ^^®^*^*^^ ^i ^ 2 vrW"'**^/ 

 L diversifolia, it being difficult to make out the curious structure ot^ t ^^ jjeddonie' 

 (that descend into the spur), except on fresh specimens.; -^^^^fij^f^gcend intott^ 

 ngiire it IB the terminal .lo.bes that are reaaced tpnarrowli guise and ? j^^^g j they »^ 

 spur ;"t)ut as far as I can make out from dried specimens, it is the ^^^^^.f ^^j at the ap^** 

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