Impaiiens.] xxxii. geraniace^. (§ Balsaminete, Hook, f.) 477 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt 6-12,000 ft.; Khasia Mts., alt. 5-7000 ft. 

 nlA,^^ T^ species, 3-5 ft., with copious inflorescence. Leaves 3-5 in., often fas- 

 iuea towards the top of the stem, crenatures large, bristles basal ; petiole A-S in., 



^nVf rff ^^.l^'P"''^^^^ ^'-''"^^ ^^ *'^^ l^^^^- Peduncles 3-8 in,, corymbobelj crowded, 

 inci, sun, with 2-5 whorls of stiff spreading pedicels i-2 in. long; bracts whorled, 



voili^''^ ^.T^*^ ^*^^^ s^^"* glandular points. i^/oM;er5 i in. including the Rpur. 



Flowers 4 in. including the spur, 



points like the 



Cr ^^P"^'f ^^f ^' ^"d rounded at the top ; sepals lanceolate, with Jon 

 jLnrh V^ ,"^^J;*^ neither winged, keeled nor spurred ; spur straight wiih'a swollen tip, 

 uta snorter than the pedicel. Capsule |-1 in., strict, rarelv inclined, usually in a line 

 oblonir P^i ^^'' \\iiG^r, hardly at all clavate, glabrous. Seeds between obovoid and 

 thoiitri ^'"^*'/"^ smooth or nearly so, apiculate at the hilum.— A very distinct plant, 



though 



ouiaii BjjtiUMuens are muisiingi 



specimens have larger seeds th 





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B V. — Racemos-E. 



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^^cicts deciduous ; furlong, slender. . 



We^ '■ *^^*ff^*s.» ^C'. Prodr. i. 688 ; glabrous, stem simple robust, 

 stron^ ^^^^ elliptic-lanceolate acuminate serrate thick, nerves many 

 termi^' ?™^^^les subterminal usually numerous stout long etect, raceme 

 broaH k[^^*'^ large caducous, flowers crowded red, sepals large, standard 

 taoA * - ^^o recurved, wings small 2-lobed, lobes sKort, lip conoidal 

 Cnf A-l^^^^ ^ ^^*"g curved spur. Wall Plant As. Ear. il 83, t. 194 : 

 ^ar. 4,66; Z^./ ^, 2". in Joum. Linn. ISoc. iv. 150. 



teivell^t '^ ^^^^^ simple, very stout, hard, angled, swollen at the nodes, leafy. 



^ ?• leptoc 



ough some error. 



ci 



flftwn^'^^^^*^» peduncles fascicled subterminal erect shorter than the leaves, 

 ""wers small fr.^ — X ii x 11 T,„„„i.. i« « v..*.f oi.«w^^ -.t^ui. i,.,.^ 



2.]obf/^^-^1.^^^^» buds rounded, sepals large obliquely ovate-cordate, wings 

 Wan n^^^ a short narrow claw, lip boat-shaped, spur very long slender. 

 -&7 /;/ ^^' ^' I- longicornu, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl Ind. Ed, Carey^ ii 462 ? 

 liL e •. ^^''- Archip, Ind. 103. I. leptoceras var. a, ILf. & T. in Journ. 

 ^n^ i>oc. IV. 153. L odorata, Don Prodr. 213. 



Skmh^ Sheopore, WallicL—Di^T rib.? Java {Miquet). 

 lines fro k '^niooth, fleshy, as thick as the thumb below^; branches with decurrent 

 1^1 1^.\^^ petioles. Leaves 5-6 in., very long-acuminate, se rratu res incmn bent, with 

 P^n»H8K f i' "^"'ves not stout, and without transverse nervules; petiole \~l in., with 

 '^Rranf 1 ^" .^'^°^^- P^^^ncles shorter than the leaves, stout, erect Flowers yellow, 

 A.- t ^» 3 in. diam • l^rn/^fa i..^^^ i_i ;^ ^^.nf^rvpfl • npdinels 1 in. Standard broader 



n Ion *^*.^**^- ; bracts large, J-^ in., 3-nerved ; pedicels 1 in. Standard broader 

 i^-ated f' ^^^^ ^^ 1^*^® gi'vcii Wailich*s description in the specific character); lip 

 those infi?^Au' homed at the point; «pur ascending or straight. Capmle detached, 

 1-U jJ^ ^^^ Wallichian Herbarium, and consequently possibly not of this species, are 

 ^^eaibli^^^"^ narrow, acuminate, glabrous, Se4ds unripe, oblong.— I find nothing 



ing VVallich's original specimens in any other tollection, in point of robustness, 



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