Tas. 7647. 
IMPATIENS ROYLEI, var. PALLIDIFLORA. 
2 Native of the Himalaya, 
Nat. Ord. GrrantaceE®.—Tribe BaLsaMINES. 
Genus Impatiens, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277.) 
I. Roylei, Walp. Rep. i. 475. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 468. 
1. glandulifera, Royle Illustr. Bot. Himal. p. 151, t. 28, £. 2 (non Arn.) 
I. glanduligera, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 22. Hook, Bot. Mag. t. 4020. 
Var. pallidiflora; elatior, 5-6-pedalis, foliis majoribus 6-8 poll. longis, floribus 
majoribus in corymbos amplos 6-10 poll. latos dispositis lide roseis 
rubro maculatis. 
The plant here figured may be assumed to be Himalayan, 
but of this I have no certain knowledge. It appeared for 
the first time in the shrubberies of my garden near 
Sunningdale three or four years ago, and rapidly increased, 
so as to become a weed, until 1598, when the long- 
continued drought decimated the plants, and prevented the 
seeding of the few that were spared. How or whence it 
was introduced I cannot form an idea. I have never raised 
an Indian Balsam in ‘my garden, nor had I at that time 
received the seeds of any, and it is not in the Kew collec- 
tion, or in that of other botanical gardens to which I have 
directed inquiries. On the other hand, [ have seen it in 
several cottage gardens, one at Marlow being the nearest 
to my place (about fifteen miles in a straight line). Also I 
saw it growing in profusion in a cottage garden near Mr. 
Mitford’s residence, Batsford Park, Worcestershire, but 
not a specimen of it was to be found in that gentleman’s 
fine garden, or in his magnificent miscellaneous collection 
of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, where 
I. Roylei abounds in a naturalized state. In stature, 
foliage, inflorescence, flowers and fruit, my plant altogether 
agrees with one which I found in the upper valleys of 
the Sikkim Himalaya, and of which I made a coloured 
drawing on the spot, differing only in having subulate 
stipuliform glands, whereas in the Sikkim plant these are — 
APRIL Ist, 1899. 
