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Impatiens] xxxii. Geraniace^. (§ Balsamlnese, Hook, f.) 455 



minute standard small elliptic acuminate with a long beak, wings very 

 small 2-lobed included in the lip, lip saccate, spur short involute. //./. <& 

 {^l^Journ. Lmn. Soc, iv. 132. I. glandulifera var. ? Am. in Hook Comp. 



^ot. Mag. L 323. 



: Monntains of Ceylon, alt. 5-7000 ft. 



>b«em as thick as the thumb, 10-12 ft. high, naked below. Leaves very like those of 

 ^^glandulifera, but even larger, and petioles as in it, with pedicelied glands. Flowers 

 ^nuloug^orange^red, quite glabrous, with a remarkably small beaked standard and 



ngs. Capsule ^ in., very turgid, straight, beaked, quite elabrous. Seeds not ripe. — 

 A noble species in habit and foliage. ^ ' ' ^ - ^ 



41. X, repens, Moon Gat 18 ; glabrous, creeping, diffusely branched, 

 eaves long-petioled ovate cordate or reniform, pedicels very long, standard 

 orbicular spurred behind, wing-lobes short broad, lip subconoid, spur short 



incurved Wight III i. 160, t. 61 ; 

 Joum. Lmn. Soc, iv. 132. 



' Southern and Central parts of Ceylox, at no great elevation. 

 ^^ A slender creeping much branched and perfectly glabrous 



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perfectly glabrous plant. Leaves ^-f in. 



n^-, acute; petiole 1 in. Flowers yellow, % in. diam. Capsule and seeds un- 



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1 ^^- '■ leptopoda, Arn. in Hook Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 321; erect, 

 ^anched, quite glabrous, slender, leaves long-petioled ovate or lanceolate 

 acuminate crenate-serrate, pedicels long axillary subsolitary, flowers 

 Zft f 1 ^*'.^^^^''^^^ obcordate spurred at the back, wings 2-lobed broad hori- 

 t^ntal, hp boat-shaped, spur long or short. Thwaites Enitm. 65 ; H.f. & T. 

 y'^ouni. Linn. aS'oc. i. 132. I. brevicornu and I. gibbosa, Am. I.e. 



Mountain woods of Ceylon, alt. 5-8000 ft. 

 8om f-'^^^ vanable herb, 1-3 ft. hi^h ; stem often prostrate and rooting at the base, 

 lg^^^"jC8 almost woody below. Leaves 1-3 in., membranous, sometimes ciliate to- 

 sotiipr *^.^' young usually puberulous, nerves many; petiole very variable in length, 



Peria tT^ ^i^^h stipitate glands. Flowers about ^ in. diam. ; pedicels very slender; 

 spur '"^***c, rosy ; sepals small, oblong-lanceolate ; lobes of wings subequal, flat ; 

 I I .sometimes f in., and very slender, at others reduced to a mere tubercle. Capsules 

 8 % m., erect, ellipsoid, beaked. Seeds immature. 



lea^ *' *runcata, Thwaites Enum. 66; weak, slender, diffusely branched, 

 Duh ^^^ ^^* P^*^i*^>led ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate serrate sparsely 

 stin?^^^^ ^bove, pedicels 1-3 slender bracteate and small, flowers pubescent, 

 annt u ^^bicular cuspidate, wings unequally 2-lobed spreading, lip conoid, 

 ^^ short curved. ILf. <Sh T. in Joiirn. Linn. Soc. iv. 133, 



: fc^^'^^yoods of CEVI.ON, alt. 4-6000 ft. 



and h -^ y"^ ^^ ^' l^ptopoda, and probably a variety of that plant, with diffuse stems 

 ivihalah!^^ V'"^^ peduncle and flowers, but of which Thwaites enumerates a variety, 

 ■^ ^» which is almost glabrous. Young capsules pilose, Thw. 



bn,t A Pendula, Ileyne in Wall. Gat. 4744 ; very smaU, erect, slender, 

 datr. ' ^^"^'^3* glabrous, leaves \-k in. petioled elliptic-ovate or subcor- 

 ffii mf ^"^^ remotely serrate, pedicels solitary fruiting deflexed, flowers 

 W r J Sl*brous, standard spurred at the back, lip concave not spurred. 

 '^ ,'^' ^rodr, 137 j //./. & T. in Joam. Linn. Soc. iv. 133. 



onntaing of Malabar, at Cababood,irey«6. . . .,,,,, 



alliej.^^^'^'.'nens of this do not sufEce for a good description; it is evidently closely 

 anddpfl f '^'>«*J»2«'«, tenella, and other species with minute flowers, opposite leaves 



"'^nexed fruiting peduncles. Stem 4-6 in. : branches with a faint line of pub 



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