Impaticns.] xxxii. geraniace.e. (§ Balsamineie, Hook, f.) 465 



^Wntains of Travaxcor; Myhendra and Agliasteer, alt. 4-5000 ft., Beddo.ne, / 



htem strict, 6-8 in., naked below. Leaves \ in., rather thick, ciliated in the crena- 



iii^s; petiole slender, often as lon^^ as the blade. Pedmdes 1-2 in.; l)racts green, 



subuiate-lanceolate, spreading. Flotvers J in. diam., white streaked with red, very 



membranous; sepals oblique, acuminate; lateral lobe of wings small. Cai)sule un- 



V- /5 I unciuata, Wight in Madr. Joarn. v. 11, t. 6; Ic, t. 747; 

 slender, elect, glabrous, leaves long-petioled ovate or ovate-cordate crenate, 

 peduncles slender 4-8-fld., flowers small subuinbelled or sliortly racemed, 

 sepals very large obliquely ovate, standard small elliptic, wings divaricating, 

 tenninal lobe obovate falcate, lip subcaiupanulate, spur short, inflated 

 flocked. H,f.(tTAnJourn. Linn. SociY. 14.4.. 



ountams of the Southern Carjiatic, in dense shaded juneles near Courtallum, 

 '-^It. ^-3000 ft, Wight. 



Leaves 2-4 in., very membranous, ciliate 



oiew 6-10 in., sparingly branched, leafy. 



^n at the base, crenatures large, minutely ciliate; petiole J -3 in, rather slender. 

 ^artcZe shorter than the leaves; bracts small, rather persistent; pedicels ^-1 in. 



iowen I in. diam. ; sepals very large for the size of the plant ; standaid pointed ; 

 aeral wing-Iobcs oblong, pointed forward, terminal protruded, rather hatchet-shaped; 

 P shortly carapanulate ; spur constricted at the insertion, inflated below it, with a 

 ^ ore slender upcurved tip. Capsule k in., ellipsoid, beaked, turgid, glabrous. Seeds 



*""' ""^Pe, app'arently orbicular^and glabrous. ' 



78. I. eleerans, BedcL Ic. PL Ind. Or. p. 29, t. 145; stout, glabrous, 



cord f^^^^^ ^^^^^ simple or branched, leaves long-petioled ovate or ovate- 

 *^^te acuminate crenate, peduncles slender apiary and terminal erect, 

 sen r^ 3-5 umbelled or shortly racemed, bracts lar^e ovate-lanceolate, 

 irni ^ ^^^te, standard small orbicular-ovate, lateral wing-lubes small 

 rouuaed arched over the stamens, terminal very large obliquely ovate acute, 

 ^^P very small boat-shaped, spur 0. ' 



Anamallay hills, in Travancor, alt. 2500-5000 ft., common, Beddome. 

 memt^ ^°-> ^^^Plt^ or branched, often rooting at the joints. Leaves 2-4 in., 



liu r^T' '^^^"^^^^^es minutely ciliate; petiole 1-3 in. Fed '- .->:«.% 



tJjg^-)J^"^*v recurved, whorled ; pedicels capillary, spreading. 

 fitanJ ^^* P?le rose colour with a pui-ple eye, Wo^c- from the highest localities the largest ; 

 entirp • ^P^c^l^te flat with a green dorsal ridge ; terminal wing-lobe sessile, tip obtuse 

 tunnM '."^^^, °^argin obscurely retuse tou-an^s the tip. Capstde I iu., ellipsoid, beaked, 

 Icm-l^^f ' ""ddle, glabrous. Seeds hairy, subglolose.— In many respects near 

 V r"% Jn which the side lobes of the wings are also incurved. - ' 



very 



FcJuncles 1-3 in. ; bracts 



Flowers 1 in. across 



N 



# (^ A viiL— Eacemos^. 4 



^ >^«PWr long and slender. 



w: '; "»iaculata, Wight in Madr. Journ. v. 12 ; tall, slender, branched, 

 benpTtiT^'^S'P^ti^led elliptic-lanceolate acuminate serrate hairy above and 

 leavp« ' J^^^Iuiicles and very long lax racemes much exceeding the 

 of J^' Pedicels horizontal, sepals large broad, standard small, lateral lobes 

 n, f Prp^^}^^^te terminal very large, lip conoid, spur very long slender. 

 jj'r- ^v*« Jour7i. Linn. Soc. iv. 149. 



Cmta r^'^'^^s 5" Malabar ; Sivaghery hills, alt. 4-7000 h Wight, ^ 

 lranong%, •' branches and petioles laxly hairy, or glabrate. iearc* 3-5 m., mem- 

 J-2 in ' . ^'glandular at the base, serraturcs not tipped wi 



*_ i**» SOmp finite „.:i.L f. _ 1 ' .-.-x.x. »1„«,J„ P^M^ani 



log, 



with a bristle; petiole 



_^Iand8. ^'liaceme and stiff pedcncle 



p^st'ent ; pedicels 1 in. Flower nearly 



lateral \h ^^^^^ ^^^^ orbicular standard acuminate ; terminal wmg-lobe suborbicular, 



Vol. L *^® standard; spur twice as long as the flower, curved up. Ca2)8ule 



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