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452 XXXII. GERANiACE^. (§ Balsamineee^ Hoolc. f.) [Lnpafiens, 



on the inner margin, lobes rounded- oblong, sometimes elongate ; lip very variable, some- 

 times conoid and produced into a slender curved spur, at others obtuse, abruptly spurre'l, 

 or gibbous nbove the spur. Capsule and seeds as in (92) /. trijpetala. — The figures m 

 the Exotic Flora represent etiolated flowers. 



31. 1. flavida, F. /. <t- T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iv. 127; erect, 

 quite glabrous, leaves opposite and 3-nately whorlcd all long-petioleu 

 ovate-lanceolate minutely serrulate, stipules obsolete, flowers 2-4'Subuin- 

 belled yellow, bracts recurved, standard obovate, wings small, lip saccate 

 obtuse, spur stout incurved, WalL Cat, 4763 (with I. trilobata). 



Eastern Bengal; Silhet and Cachar, in woods, Wallich, &c. ; Mishmi Mm and 

 Upper Assam, Griffith. » 



A branched annual, not easily distinguished in a dried state from states of I.tn 

 lota, excejit by the leaves being more constantly quite glabrous above, the stipules being 

 obsolete, and the leaves not ciliate towards the base. Peduncles of tGn oppose e an 

 usually erect; bracts apparently always recui-ved. Flowers | in. from the ba^se ot^ le 

 lip to the tip of the standard, dirty gamboge-yellow ; spur thick, hooked; wiugs wuU- 

 rounded lobes, the terminal purplish, 



32. I. vertlcillata, Wig?a in Madr. Jour. v. 15; glabrous, erect, 

 leaves opposite and in whorls of 3 and 6 short-petioled narrow-lanceolate, 

 stipules subixlate, flowers umbelled, wings broad 2-lobed, terminal loqe 

 elongate, lip boat-shaped with a long very slender spur. 2^./ari.*» 

 Joum. Linn. Soc, iv. 129, 



Mountains of Malabar; in gravelly beds of streams, at Sivagherry, Wight; Cocni^t • 

 Johnstone. . . f 



Herbaceous, diffupe: stem 6-18 in., subsimple, naked below, swollen at the jomts,ter€ e. 

 L/>aves 4-6 in., usually 4-6 in a whorl, much narrowed at both ends, ci^V^l^'^^*^^^^^^^ 

 Peduncles shorter than the leaves, 2-x -flowered, bracts subulate. Flowers 5 ^°- ^^V"^ 

 crimson, perianth subrotate ; standard suborbicular-oblong ; win^s deeply ^-^"rjj 

 tenninal lube elongate, dimidiate-oblong ; lip boat-shaped ; spur f-l in., nearly "^^^^^^ 

 or with an incurved tip, very slender indeed. Capsule erect or inclined (oblong oDiu ; 

 5-angled, Wight). 



33. I, GougrbU, Wight Ill.i. 160; Ic. t. 1603; small, s^^^der, quite 

 glabrous, leaves mostly opposite petioled ovate crenate-serrate, V^^^\^^ 



^capillary viscid exceeding the leaves 4-6-flowered, flowers Kli""*^^. ^oat- 

 obovate retuse, wings 2-lobed, lobes short truncate and retuse, f^P^ 

 shaped with a straight spur shorter than the flower. H.f- & ^'r^t^m 



Linn. Soc. iv, 130. 



oum. 



layensis, Bedd. in Madr. Joum N.s. iv. 68, t. 7, f . 8 ; Ic FL I^,\X*' 



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Nat. Mosc 



Mountains of Malabar and Travakcor ; • Nilghiri Mts. at Pycarrah, Goug. ; 

 An&mallay and Pulney Mts. by streams, alt. 7-8000 ft., Beddome.^ ^- j^g^lf 



Avery slender glabrous simple or branched annual, 4-8 in. l^ig^» ,®"PP^^\,,J^-Mite. 

 amongst herbage (TF^/if), Leaves ^^ - - -- ^ ^^ 



base rounded, nervesjew, serratures not ciliate ; stipules obsolete, reutinv.^y — ^^^^ 

 often numrrous. £%wer8 J-J in. diam., 4-8, umbelled, pink; bracts "^^"VJ^ ^th 

 ceous; sepals minute, falcate; standard mucronate in the retuse ^P^^j. ^han A® 

 very variable lobes, the lower 2.1obed according to Beddome ; spur .shorter i ^.^j^ 

 flower. ra/).We 3V in., erect, ellipsoid, acute at both ends. >Se€rfrf te w, cio -^^^ j^j^ 

 liairs.^BGddorae (Ic. PI. Ind. Or. p. 32) identifies his /. viscosa with tr(ni<//i»^ ^^ 



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