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456 XXXII, GERANiACE^. (§ Balsaminese^ Hook, f.) \Impatim$. 



on one side. Leaves with few nerves. Pedicels shorter than the leaves, minutely 

 pubescent. Flowers \ in. diam. Capsuh \ in., ellipsoid, beaked, glabrous. ■ -^ 



45. I. mysorensis, Roth Nov. Plant Sp. 164; stem very slender 

 glabrous, leaves alternate petioled lanceolate acumiuate remotely serrulate, 

 pedicels 1-2 axillary, flowers very small, sepals minute, standard suborm- 

 cular gibbous at the back, terminal lobe of wing largest, lip boat-shaped, 

 spur short straight, capsule tomentose. Wall Cat 4743 0\W.<i: ^-P'^J.^^ 

 137 ; //./. c6 T. in Joum. Linn. Soc, iv. 133. Balsamina mysorensis, i>0. 



Frodn i. 686. 



Mysore, Heyne. . , 



Stem &-10 in. Leaves 1^ in., quite glabrous. Pedicels half the length of tne 

 leaves or less. Flowers red", about ^ in. diara. ; spur about half the length of the jip^, 

 v,-hich is acuminate. Capsule unvipe, \ in. ellipsoid. — A very obscure plant, belongma 

 apparently to the section with (18) 1. inconspicua, but with leaves all alternate and a 

 very tomentose capsule. Wight & Arnott, in. the Prodromus quote Wight C;^^^- °' ^'^ 

 under this species, but give no particulars, taking the desciiption almost entirely tro 

 Koth. I find a good authentically named specimen in Bottler's Herbarium, comrQuni- 

 cated by Heyne himself in 1801, and marked mysorensis^ nobis, in Bottlers nan - 

 writing. 



46. 1. Farishii, //./.; glabrous, stem very thick and fleshy, leaves 

 large long-petioled elliptic or ovate serrulate, pedicels solitary in ^^^."P? 

 axils capillary," sepals very large orbicular-ovate, standard broadly ^"^^^^^ ^^ 

 winp not lobed very obliquely trapezoid acute projecting furw .rds, tiP 

 small oblong concave with a basal gibbosity or very short spur. 



Texasserim; on limestone rocks, near Moulmein, Parish. -.i 



The Rev. Mr. Parish describes this very curious species as a " biennial or F^"""^^ 

 fleshy ehort-Btemmed plant, 10-24 in. high, slightly branched, with large hancbom 

 flowers, which are single in the axils of the upper leaves;^' and suggests the names i 



It of Icevis or lamcntdiR wln'.li Tint ^^t^\T^,T cin-r^Jfi^onf i'r» tA crlflhrous a trenus, 1 n 



thick as the finger, short, smooth. Leaves b-1 in., membranous, straight or o^"*l"^;." gg 

 sometimes slightly cordate ; nerve's many, arched ; petiole 2-3 in., slender, some^ 

 2-glanduIar at the top. Flowers 2 in. long from tip of wing to that of standard, wi 

 with red streaks on the wings and lip; sepals ^-| in., concave, acute; ^7''^^, ?7Le 

 ing forward, the lateral lobes not distinct from the terminal, turned upward and tai^ . 

 the rest of the lobe triangular with straight inner edges and acute apex; up very s 

 horizontal, the spur a gibbosity, green. Cap)sule unknown. 



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47. I. capilUpes, ff. f. dh T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iv 135 ; vei^ 

 slender, glabrous, diffusely branched, leaves long-petioled lanceolate cauud 

 acuminate, crenate, pedicels 1-2 axillary capillary, flowers ^f ^ ^ ugg 

 sepals falcate, standard very long erect linear-oblong, wings short w 

 rounded acuminate, lip saccate, base rounded with a short slende 



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, luouimein, on limestone rocks, Lohhj Parish. ^ nerveJ, 



Stem 6-10 in., branches long. Leaves 2-5 in., very narrow, flaccid, ^^^^\ a^x. 

 narrowed into the slender naked petiole. Pedicels \-^ in., extraordinarily 8*^ 

 Flowers white ? 4 in. from the top of the standard to the base of the spur ; sepals n ^j 

 obtuse ; standard remarkably long, obtuse, concave ; wings lobed to the nmldie, 

 lobe much the largest, sides rounded, acute, tips of both lobes pointed ^5*%"^^^^!;j^fc^a. 

 sule \ in.,_ trapezoid, acuminate, contracted at the base, like that of (87) L racem 



Seeds unripe. 



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