Tas. 6550. 
IMPATIE NS Ampuorata. 
Native of the Himalaya Mountains. 
Nat. Ord. Gerantachs.—tTribe BALSAMINER. 
Genus Impatiens, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. J. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 277.) 
IMPATIENS amphorata ; erecta, elata, ramosa, caule angulato, foliis petiolatis ellip- 
tico-ovatis v. lanceolatis acuminatis crenato-serratis, stipulis glanduligeris, 
racemis subterminalibus et in axillis superioribus smpe subumbellatim Y. 
verticillatim interruptis multifloris, pedicellis elongatis, floribus magnis pallide 
lilacinis roseo-maculatis, sepalis orbiculari-cordatis, vexillo orbiculari dorso 
cristato v. cornuto, alarum lobis lateralibus rotundatis terminali pendulo obtuso 
extus lobulato, labello magno cylindraceo obtuso, ealeare brevi tenui incurvo, 
capsula lineari-elongata, seminum testa rugosa. 
I, amphorata, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xx. p- 39; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. 
Lnd. vol. i. p. 475. 
I. longicornu, Wall. Cat. No. 4729 in part. I. longicornu, var. 8B. Hook. f. et 
oms. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iv. 148. 
I. umbrosa, Edgew. 1. c. in part. 
I. picta, Knowles et Westcott, Floral Cabinet, t. 128. 
One of the tallest and handsomest of Himalayan Balsams, 
though not attaining the stature of I. Koylei, Walp. 
(I. glandulifera, Royle, Ill. t. 28; I. glanduligera, tab. 
nost. 4020), with which it is often confounded in gardens, 
but which differs in having opposite or whorled leaves, 
bristle-shaped stipules, and club-shaped capsules. It is a 
common plant in the Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to 
the Nipal frontier in Kumaon, at elevations of 5000 to 
8000 feet, where it was first distinguished by Mr. Edgeworth 
as a distinct species. Like all its congeners, it is a very 
variable plant, of which I have retained, in the Flora of 
British India, three forms, which are regarded as species 
by Mr. Edgeworth, namely : 1, amphorata, that here figured ; 
2, var. wmbrosa, with glandular pedicels and the lip 
gradually narrowed into the incurved spur; and 3, pallens, 
with smaller paler flowers, eglandular pedicels, and the lip 
APRIL Ist, 1881. 
