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478 xxxTi. GERANiACE^.- (§ Balsaminece, Hook, f.) [Imphtieni. 



ehoi-t internorles (1 in.), swollen nodes, leafiness, very long narrow leaves, few ^^^^ 



terminating the short peduncles, and great length of spnr. Amongst his distributed 



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the Carey Edition of Roxburgh's Flora Indica. In that work Wallich says he has 

 received the same plant from Western Nipal, gathered by Dr. Govan; but there are no^ 

 specimens of Govan 's in his Herbarium, and I suspect that larAJlora or racemosa la 

 here alluded to, which he has distributed under the same number, and which De tan- 

 dolle probably describes as var, a. /. leptoceras resembles I. imignis, but the leavea 

 are longer, less coriaceous, and want the strong transverse nervules so well marked m 

 that plant ; the peduncles are moreover much shorter, the flowers and sepa_s nincri 

 smaller, the tip is not horned at the points, and the spur is far longer. De La,ndoU© 

 describes two varieties, a and 0, with peduncles respectively longer and shorter t ban 

 the leaves. The present plant is his p I suppose ; his a bein^ probably L laxijtora. 

 I have, however, retained his name, as being in accordance with Wallich's deternii- 

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114. 1. tuberculata, H.f. <fh T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 155 ; erect, 

 branched, quite glabrous, leaves shortly petioled elliptic acuminate crenate, 

 peduncles erect and pedicels short, bracts minute cacIucouS; flowers small 

 purplish, sepals falcate, standard orbicular, wings exserted broad ^^^^^^;^ 

 lip boat-shaped with a very short spur, capsule short clavate tubercled. : 



Temperate and Subalpine Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 10-13,000 ft., J. I>S. ' . " 



Stan 2-3 ft., succulent. Leaves 2~i in., more or less fascicled as if whoried at 3pe 



interrupted, 4-8-tiowered ; pedicels i-^ in. Flowers J in. diam. ; sepals "^"^i' ^yCa 

 very small ; standard orbicular, very concave, keeled at the back ; lateral "^'^^S'^^ t^ 

 orbicular, tenninal produced (I think); lip apiculate; stem broad short. )^^P L 

 J in., erect or Wizonial, 5-angled, valves with 2 series of pustules or ^}'r^^^*^^^^^^ 

 obtuse, with a curved spur or beak. Seeds i in., oblong, narrow, comprcs^ea , le 

 spongy, wrinkled, brown.— A very well marked species, by the shortly pctiolea lea 

 with basal bristles in the crenatures, short j^eduncles and pedicels, peculiar cap^ 

 and large seeds. 



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115. I, stenantha, Hook. f. ; tall, much branched, quite g^''i^r« J; 

 leaves petioled elliptic-ovate or lanceolate acute or caudate-acumiiu 

 crenate, peduncles axillary and terminal, bracts caducous, nowe 

 yeUow, buds beaked at the rounded or subacute tip, sepals small "^J^^^ 

 standard recurved, lateral wing-lobes oblong, terminal narrow ^^""^U. 

 acute or obtuse, lip trumpet-shaped horned at the very oblique nwu , 

 narrowed into a long slender spur, \r ii 



SiKKiM Himalaya and E. Nipal, common, alt. 6-8000 ft. ; Khasia Mts., a 

 5-0000 ft., Griffith, &c. • i 1 r gtib- 



Usnally tall, erect, much branclied. Leaves 2-6 in., crenatures with "*^*' " (joie.- 

 basal bristles ; i^tiole i-3 in. ; stiptilar glands sessile or stipitate on the stem "^^^^^^^^ 

 Peduncles slender, shorter of longer than the leaf; racemes sliort; bracts * . , ^.jjjj 



caducous long before the expansion of the flower "' "" «neciae' 



red; bud 1 in. long, with a long t<^rminal green beak; sepals soiuei-i.uv- 'i, ^s lonjf 

 orbicular or oblong ; wings with sometimes a twi^sted acute terminal lobe °'^*";' ^jj^yate, 

 as the spur, which is sometimes clubbed at tlie tip, CVi^iw/e 4 i».. n*'"*'^. -j^t^d 



. Fleers yellow, often Bpec-^^^j.^ 

 . beak ; sepals Bomctnues 4 «te^ ,^^ 



US luc spui, wiucu IS sonieumes ciubbea at tne tip, o«^i*wte 5 ***., -"- j^^gj^t^^d 



acuminate, glabrous. Seeds small, obovoid, compressed, opaque.— I, ,3|^botliin 

 tefore 



tSikki 



bracts 



)efore separating this from /. anyustljlora, but the constantly caducous ^'"^^^^^^jj ^iU 

 Sikkim and the Khasia Mountains seem to indicate an important difference, n^^ 



acute flat re- 



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