y>- 



Impatiens.] xxxii. geraniace^. (§ Balsamineoe, Hook, f.) 



451 



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Mountains of Malabar and Travancor, alt. 3-7000 ft. 

 ^ A very near ally of /. latifoUa, but I think distinct, espocially in the excessively 

 branched and leafy luibit, much smaller, crowded, usually recurved leaves, and smaller 

 Howers and capsules. De CandoUe is, no doubt, wrong in assigning Ceylon as a 

 habitat, except, indeed, he took /. latifolia for this. Leschenault, its discoverer, col- 

 lected m the Peninsula. 



28. I. luclda, Eeyne in Wall. Cat 47'^8 ; nearly glabrous, flaccid, 

 stem very slender, leaves chiefly opposite and whorled petiuled ovate ot 

 ovate -lanceolate acuminate crenate, peduncles very slender, flowers small, 

 sepals ovate acuminate, standard suborbicular beaked entire, wings 2-lobed, 

 lip boat-shaped with a long incurved slender spur. I latifolia, W. <k A. 



Prodr. 138. 

 Moimtaiiis of the Western Peninsula, from the Concan to Malabar. 



N 



show it to be a 



^ ^ii^erous specimens of this from Law, Stocks, AMght and others, 

 jry different species ^vom J. latifolia, being much smaller in all its parts, 4-8 in. 

 ^ ' sparingly branched, very slender and flaccid ; with a small flower I in. diara., and 

 small entire orbicular standard. The crenatures of the leaf, which is sparsel}' hairy 

 h ^^P TT^ rarely setigerous. A specimen in Rottler's Herbarium bears the name 

 wnrtfl, Heyne, and station Courtailum, spelled Kuttahim. This may be a form of 



^'Jiaccula, m(h the leaves 



sometimes opposite. 



,, -Pediuicles 2-a> rarely l-Jlowered, See I. finibriata a?it/ janthina in 



. p • *• 'adicans, Benth. in Wall Cat, 4763; pubescent, stem simple 

 terl 1 ^' ^^^^^^ opposite subsessile stipulate lanceolate acuminate serrate, 

 peauncles liurizontal, flowers 1-4 large, standard galeate, wings small, 

 iv f?^^^*^ obtuse, spur short hooked. U.f. d: T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 



Khasia Mrs., in marshes, alt. 4-6000 ft., WaVich, Gri^th, &c. 

 abovf ^^^ 1 ^P^^^^^' W~\S in., more or less crisply hairy on the stem and leaves 

 I^nce l?^*^i ^'^^''*^®- "^^^^ sqnare. Leaves 1-3 in., sometimes ovate- or oblong- 

 tJpDed sen-atures often ciliate, pale beneath ; stipules of 2 fascicles of soft gland- 



teTo !^^' ^^dunclt^s slender, shorter than the leaves, with as many lanceolate brac- 



Flowers nearly 1 in. across and as deep, purple ; sepals 



anous. 



tii^'- *»^obata, Goleh. in llooh F.xot. Flor. ii. 1. 141 ; tall, alternately 



onlv 1 ' ^^"jost glabrous, leaves opposite and alternate all or the lower 

 pe({[,^^?S-petioled lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate crenate- serrate stipulate, 

 ober.rT!"^ iiorizontal, flowers 2-5 lar^e, sepals minute subsetaceous, standard 



Tro 



47ro'a^^P saccate obtuse or "conical, spur long or short Wall, 

 y^^ A, and 4763 (Pundua) ; //./. <& T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 126. 



A vell*'^^?f ** Himalaya, alt. 2-4000 ft., and Khasta Mts., alt. 3-5000 ft. ^ 

 above, loJl^^o . .^^^ beautiful species, 1-2 ft. Leaves membranous, sparsely hairy 



