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450 xxxii. GERANiACE^, (§ Balsaminese, Hook, f.) [Lnpatkns. 



ovate, lip boat-shaped with a very short curved spur. L Gardneriana, WigM 

 Herb, not of the Icones. 



Mountains of Malabar, WigJit - „ , '■ 



Annual, erect, 6-10 in., rather stout; tranches opposite, ascending. Le^es k-i^^'^ 



lower serratures almost setaceous ; stipules setaceous or obsolete. PediceU rather 

 'shorter than the leaves. I\nvers i in. diani., remarkable for the length of the sepals, 



apparently purple. Capsule erect, ^ in., acute at both ends, very turgid m the niiddie. 



f!Seecl8 very I'ew and large, subcompressed, rather broader than long, testa black sinning. 



— This has much the habit of /. tomentosa, but it is glabrous with ovate very acutely 



serrate leaves, and different flowers. The pedicela show no disposition to be detlexea. < 



25. I. salicifolia, H. f. & T. in Journ, Linn. Soc. iv. 124 ; erect, 

 stout, tomentose, leaves shortly petioled Lanceolate serrate all <^PP^f^^f^_ 

 lower opposite upper whorled ' - • - - «- 



peduncle sometimes 2-flowered, 



subulate-lanceolate, standard obovate keeled, lip deeply saccate 

 short stout hooked spur. 



, peduncles solitary or fascicled on a common 

 id, stipules subulate or 0, flowers large, sepai? 



Khasia Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., Griffith, &c. . . \. 



Stem stout, 1-2 ft., with spreading opposite branches. Leaves 2-5 in., acuminate* 



all, the 



both ends, membranous; tomentose or glabrate on both surfaces, s^^'*^^^^.^^/^,r. ^ »,*, 

 basal long-ciliate. Inflorescence very variable, of blender 1-floweied pedicels ttia ^^ 

 solitary or fascicled or collected into a many-flowered axillary cyme, with subulate r 

 teoles. Flowers dark purple, nearly triangular in profile, and | in. from the tip o ^ 

 bpur to that of the standard. Camnle | in., elliptic-lanceolate. Seeds l^^^^^^"^; .. 

 /. salicifolia, Turcz., published in the Moscow Bulletin in the year previous toim 

 (in the Linnean Journal, 1860) is, I suspect, /. Bahamina. 



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* Pedunchs l-Jlowered. See I. parvifolia in **. -' 



26. 1. latifolia, Zwm. ; tall, stout, erect, branclied, quite glabrous, leaves 

 subopposite end whorled petioled ovate-lanceolate crenate, sepals o . 

 cuspidate, standard broad 2-lobed spurred behind, wings broad ^-^y^^'^/. 

 boat-shaped, spur long slender straight or incurved. Wall. Cat. » 

 W. I- A. Prodr. 138 in part; Dak. (k Gibs. £(mb. Fl. 44; U.t. f t^.^ 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 124 {excl. some st/n.) ; Miq. Ill Flor. .-^/w- J««- 

 I. cuspidata, W. dh A. in Hook. Comp. Pot. Mag. i. 321 ; Wight Ic.i. > ' 

 Thwaites Enum. 65. Biilsamina latifoUa, DC Prodr. i. 686.— Art^*^^ 

 Mai. ix. t. 48. ^ '^l 



Mountains of the Western Peninsula, from Concan to Tkavancoe, alt. 3-70 •_' 



Ceylon, alt, 4-7000 ft. — Distrib. Java, fid. MiqueL . , ijraDclies 



A robust plant, annual? 2-3 ft. high ; stem as thick as the finger ^^^^^^' jj^tures 

 alternate. Leaves membranous, 2-5 in., acuminate, base always ^*^"^^' , j larger 

 often setose. Flowers l-lf in. diam,, pale purple, perianth rotate. ^^''^ ^p gree^ 

 than the wings, which have a large retuse basal and narrower ternimal lobe , J^° ^. 



as IS the spur. Capmle 1 in., e 



Sner's has long 



pressed; testa thick, opaque, reticulate.— A Nilghiri specimen ^f f^^rdner ^^^ j_^^^^ 

 cilia on the petiole and alternate leaves. Thwaites remarks the ^^"'J"^! ?|^^ t otJ*2^» 

 lobes of the wings. I have not cited under this the /. latfolla of Bot. x>iag-^ v^^j^g 

 which has very alternate leaves, and must hence be referred to Lflaccida^ 

 are undistinguishable in herbarium 82)ecimens, though so diflferent in the see 



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i/. *. Jijescnenauitu, wait. Cat. 4739 ; almost s^^^JJ^' gtiole^ 

 glabrous, leaves opposite and alternate spreading and ^^P^."*^ ' „iJiuDate, 



27. Z. Xiesclienaultil, Tf 



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lanceolate 



sepals ovate ac 



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