4G0 XXXI] . GERANiACE^. (§ Balsaminece, Hook, f.) [impatiens, 



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58. X. Jerdoniae, Wight Ic. t. 1602; eraphytic, glabrous, stem tumid 

 short stout prostrate, leaves few petioled elliptic acute serrate, peduncles 

 short, pedicels 1-3 very long, bracts setaceous, sepals long lanceolate, 

 standard small hooded, wings small 2-lobed, spur very large saccate ventn- 

 cose wrinkled, spur short horn-like or 0. Jlook, BoL Mag. t. 4739; U'h 

 <t* T. in Journ, Linn. ISoc. iv, 141. 



Mountains of :Malabar, on trees at Sisparah, the Brahmagherrie and Palghat hills, 

 alt. 3- 5000 ft., Wight, &c. . ^ 



Stem 3-6 in., green or purple-brown, often as thick as the finger, rooting. -^^?^.^ 

 2-3 in., deep green, with glandular cilia at the base and on the top of the «**^"*^X^ ^^^^ 

 nerves few. Fedundes 1-3 in, green, stout ; pedicels sometimes 4 in., red. ^Jf^ 

 14-2 in. measured along the lip; sepals acuminate, green ; standard yellow, ^y*^^^" j 

 apiciilate, narrowly winged at the back; wings' yellow, almost included in the l^Pt/^ 

 rounHed overlapping ; lip bright red, laterally compressed. — In flower closely ailiea 

 /. Walkeri. I have seen no specimpn of Beddom^'s L parasitica; l^^s character 

 it accords witli that of /. Jerdonice in all but the green colour of the standard au^ 

 sepals, and the moniliform stem. I shall therefore provisionally add it to this a 

 variety, _^ 



Var. ; stem moniliform, standard with a foliaceous crest and wings green.— 1- P^ • 

 sitica, Bedd. in Madr. Jour, iv. t. 7, f. 2 ; Ic. PL hid. Or, 28, t. 140.-Ananiai.a/ 

 hills, alt. 6-7000 ft., Beddome. 



^59. 1. anrlculata, Wight in Madr. Jmim. v. 8, t. 3; ^P.^P/^y^^^fK^fc 

 brous, stem short prostrate internodes very tumid, leaves petioled ^^J^ 

 acute, peduncle short, pedicels 1-3 erect very long, bracts ovate, sepals v y 

 large obliquely oblong pendulous red, standard small hooded, 

 small 2-lubed, lip very large saccate wrinkled, spur short thick. 



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Mountains of Malabar and Tra vAvr/\w £iU ^c\c\(\ ft. nn hram^hes of trees, Wigi^ r 

 A smaller plant than Z 



and Travancor, alt. 5000 ft., on branches of trees, TTi^/i , J 

 : Jerdonice, with the internodes much swollen, somet me.^^ 



Floirers 



1 in. measured along the Up ; sepals very remarkable, pendulous, acute, inncU ex ^^^^ 

 the wings, and sometimes as long as the lip, scarlet ; standard dark green ; ^^"^^^.J; 

 purple, the segments cochleate and overlapping; lip scarlet, laterally ^^^^.g-gj^nt 

 h'pur very variable. Cap-side unknown.— 1 he sepals of this species are wlioliy ui 

 from any other in the genus, and hang down like a spaniel's ears. ""' 



Madr. 



saccat« 



peuoieu euiptic acute crenate-serrate, peduncles stiori, P^'^^^Y'*, v' 

 sepals linear, standard orbicular 2-lobed back strongly keeled, Up 

 narrowed into a stout involute spur. Bedd. Ic. PI Ind. Or. 29, t. l^i. 



Mountains of Malabar; forming masses on the trunks of trees at the bivag 



ghat, alt. 5000 ft., Wight. 



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lanceoW^ 



Stem often 1 in. diam., fleshy. Leaves lJ-2 in., sometimes obovate ^^ .^^ gtout. 

 with very few glandular cilia at the base, rather fleshy, crenatures large ; P^ ■ ^ ^jong 

 Pedui^le i^4 in., usually 2-flowered; bracts subulite. Flowers 1 ^^i* ;^^^^j^ii deeply 

 the lip, wholly green; sepals reflexed or deflexed, acuminate; ^tandara s , ^^^j^^ 

 hooded ; wings fleshy, 2-Iobed, lateral lobes hid under the standard, ternw"**^ 



laterally compressed. Capsule glabrous. 



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