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474 XXXII. GERANiACE^. (§ Balsaminece; Hook, f.) [Impatiens. 



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acuminate crenate, peduncles solitary axillary very long slender arcuate, 

 raceme terminal 3-5-flowered, bracts subulate caducous, flowers 1 ii^ 

 yellow, sepals 2-4 small, standard orbicular apiculate, wings with a long 

 narrow twisted terminal lobe, lip trumpet-shaped, spur slender hooked.' ■^;- 



. Temperate Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 8-10,000 ft., /. D» M, , ■ - , 



, A very distinct plant, 3-4 ft., with scattered uniform leaves and long axillary sutv 

 horizontal peduncles, 2-5 in. long. Stipules 0. Stem su.btetragonous. Leaves 6-0^ 

 in., membranous, rather falcate ; petiole ^-4 in. Flowers loosely racemed, p:ue y^^^^'^ 

 unspotted; huds rounded at the apex. St2)al8 sometimes 4, ovate-lanceolate; late 

 win--lobe rounded, terminal 1 in., broadly subulate. Capsule not seen.— I ha'^ DO- 

 cited any other habitat for this species but Sikkim ; the Kumaon plants cited in Jonriu 

 Linn. Soc. being imperfect. In the form of the flower it is most allied to I. laxtjwr 



and its allies. 



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105. 1. urticifolia, Wall in Foxb. Fl.Ind. Ed. Carey, ii. 457 ; Cat 4768; 

 simple or sparingly branched, quite glabrous, leaves large lower ioi « 

 petioled elliptic-ovate caudate-acuminate coarsely crenate, P^*i^^*^ . . „! 



subterminal 



hooked. 



slender, flowers large purple or yellow, sepals obliquely ovate, s 

 orbicular, wings 2-lobed, lip shortly saccate, spur short incurved or 

 I. urticifolia, vars. a and y, H.f. <h T. in Journ, Linn. Soc. iv. 152. 



Temperate Himalaya, Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 10-12,000 ft., /• D-^^-. .,? 

 . Stem 2-3 ft., usually slender, and hardly branched, ieai;^^ 4-6 in., upper se^^^j 

 membranous, tips long and quite entire; nerves many spreading, very slender » 



liniuiiu ^cuicuiHj wuicu, as wen as tne Uracts ^nearly 4 in.;, are vcij oi^^T'^ y ctreakfli 

 spread. Flowers yellow according to Wallich, white or pale purple with ''^/^ ''^ w 

 in the Sikkim specimen, f in. diam. ; sepals oblique, long-pointed; stan^''^^^ ''^^i^^^^^ 

 keeled; wings with broad lateral lobes and elongate oblong terminal ones; ^P^^l ,^;^ 



as broad as 

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deal 7. amphorata, but is distinguished by its long, arched, filiform, nsua ly u^' , .^ 

 neduncles, which do not bear a raceme, but as it were divide into pedicels, ^.y ,|j^|i'g 

 long slender bracts. It is most nearly allied to 7. lonrjwes and L ^^'"^J/^^'^j-^ of the 

 description of the flower is imperfect, and I am unable to examine the wing 



dried specimena. 



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106. 1. cymbifera, Ilookf.; slender, branched, quite pl«^7"%3e-' 

 petioled elhptic-ovate or lanceolate caudate-acuminate suarpiy 

 serrate, peduncles axillary and subterminal much shorter than ^^% j^j^ge 



l-4-fiowere(], bracts large caducous, flowers large lilac, ^^Jng-lobeB 



filiform 



orbicular-ovate, standard orbicular gibbous behind, lateral wing 



iSoc. iv. 152. 



gibbous behind, I'-^teral wing- 



)(Mv. 102. f iyB. 



Inner valleys of the Sikkim Himalaya ; Lachoong river, alt. 8-10,000 ft., _ ^^ j^,^ 



Stem 2-3 ft., green with pale red-purple blotches; branches ^Y ' t]A ie^^^^^^^ ^ 

 embranous, tip quite entire, crenatures or eerratures very shallow, witn ^ stioula' 



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sepals nearly as long as the standard, acuminate, green on one ^tne ^U^C ^ 

 midrib, lilac on the other ; standard much vaulted, hardly, keeled ; ^ernii ^^ 

 horizontal, obtuse, couQiving and parallel;" lip | in. long, ovoid m oum 



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