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Impatiens.] xxxii, geraniaceje. (§ Balsamine*, Hook, f.) 481 



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Whence tte unexpanded flower has a remarkably narrow form with a LeaTced tip; in 

 this respct it agrees with 7. ^^ena^i^/^a, which differs in the deciduous bracts. The 

 wing-lobes vary much in breadth, and in var. 2 the terraiual-Iobps are inflexed, 

 crossing one another; in var. 1 the form of the wing-lobes cannot be determined; sti- 

 pu^r glands sessile or pedicelled or 0. 



T>! ^^* ^ ' ^^^^ slender, branched, leaves elliptic-ovate. — Surureem in woods. 

 • t>notan. 



.: Var 2; stem very robust shorter sometimes narrowly- winded above, leaves lonc;er 

 narrow-lanceolate.-Moflong. 



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120. 1. micranthemum, Edg 



orb 1 P^^^l^^^^t, flowers ^ in. white, sepals small narrow, standard 

 tnK 1^ ^^' wings conniving, lateral lobes elliptic, terminal rounded, lip 

 ^oular narrowed into a slender straight spur. 11./. & 1\ in Journ. Linn. 

 ^; IV. 154, under I. laxiflora. 



. ^^™P^^ate AVestern Himalaya; Simla, alt. 6-10,000 ft., Edgeworth, Tkomwi. 

 I In W ^^^^^^^ P^^® succulent plant, with difficulty distinguished in a dry state from 

 • KW:///ora, except by the smaller flowers and straigliter spur. Zea^es 3-4 in., very 

 j^J opposite, flaccid, with often 2 glands at the base of the blatle, crenatnres witli 

 til i:**^''^®» "PP^^ siil^sessile; stipular gland stipitate. Peduncles lQn<:,<iV or shorter 

 stand^^ ^^?^63 ; racemes many-flowered ; pedicels ^-1 in., capillary. Flowers white ; 

 broiL e^^*^ yellow and red spots. Capmle horizontal, ^-f in., linear, apiculate,^gla- 

 ^■he K ^^* oblong, rugulose. — I can find no valid characters in the description gi^en 

 j^^reby to separate /. eZa^; both are probably forms of J. br achy centra^ to which 

 ortn 8 var. 8 of /. mlcran.tKp.miLm mav b^ referable. * 



I, micranthemum, 



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urtn s var. ^ of /. micranthemum may be referable. 



■ 1 ; bristles of crenaturea basal, pedicels glandular. 



^%w?. I.e. 

 r'^ ^ ' bristles of crenatures subapical, pedicels glandular. I. elata, Edgew. l.cAl^ 



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-^^acU persistent, sp ur short or 0. 



j,j2l. I. brachycentra, Kar. dc Kir. in Bull Sac, Nat. Mosc. IS42, i. 

 eilinV ^^^^^"^ slender, branched, quite glabrous, leaves long-petioled 

 stem ^^f ^^^^inate crenate-serrate, peduncles fascicled at the top of the 

 iQi^r 1 erect, racemes many-flowered, bracts minute persistent, flowers 

 rathp 1 ' sepals ovate obtuse concave, standard broadly obovate, wings 

 sliabed '^^' lateral lobes rounded, tenninal produced 2-lobed, lip boat- 

 P^d With a very short straight conical spur. 



llARRf^rS *e"iperate Himalaya, alt. 7-10,000 ft., from Kcnawuk, Jacquemont, to 



Wn«i 1 L"^'-^^^'^*^^^- Soongaria. 

 brinons ; 1 *^- *^^^^ usually naked below, not winged. Leaves 2-5 in., very mem- 

 often wifK o *^'PP^*i ^'itli a bristle, nerves many, very slender ; petiole 4-1 in., slender, 

 in. verv 1 f ®^'^® ^^ stipitate stipular glands. Pedancles usually very numerous, 1-3 

 biact'^^^^^^^er, mostly sulterminal, with a few reduced lateral ones in the lower axils; 

 the flo!:^^^*^*^8 ; pedicels capillary. Flowers \ in., whitish ; sepals large for the eizeof 

 Bieijit^^^v.^^andurd not keeled or spurred. ; Cap$vle ^-| iu., narrow clavate, acute, 

 ^-f the teM^^'/^^^''^"®- ^^^^ fe^> oblong, pyrirorm, compressed, ru^nlose. The bristles 

 41) tiig. ^^" ^^ tbis species are distiuctlv apical.— 1. elata, Edgew. {Trans, Linn, Sac. xx. 

 ^^ada a f*i,^^^^^"»g to the description in the distinct spur, in being dotted with black 

 » »atl having glandular tips to the pedicels. (See under 7. micranthemum.) 



quiJ'iv^^Pauperata, ffook. /.; low 'siender,jeiy much branched, 



*^Qminat ^^^^' leaves small shortly petioled elliptic-ovate or lanceolate 



Yoi^J'^^'^^enate, 'racemes axillary few-flowered, bracts persistent, flowers 



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