Tas. 5276. 
IMPATIENS Fuaccrpa. 
Soft-leaved Balsam. 
Nat. Ord. BaALSAMINE#®.—PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calycis pentaphylli colorati foliola ineequalia, posticum maximum, 
basi calcaratum, lateralia minora, antica minima vel obsoleta. Corolle petala 5, 
hypogyna, calycis foliolis alterna, anticum maximum, suborbiculato-concavum, 
postica cum lateralibus minoribus per paria connata. Stamina 5, hypogyna, 
petalis alterna, ovarium arcte cingentia ; filamenta superne coalita; anthere in- 
trorse, biloculares, subconnate, longitudinaliter dehiscentes vel infra apicem 
subtransversim rupte. Ovarium sessile, oblongo-pentagonum v. teretiusculum, 
quinqueloculare. Ovu/a in loculis plurima vel pauca, angulo centrali superpo- 
sita, inserta, uniseriata. Stigma sessile, quinquedentatum vel quinquefidum. 
Capsula oblonga, pentagona v. teretiuscula, superne uni-, inferne quinque-locu- 
laris, loculicide quinquevalvis; valvis medio semiseptiferis, a columna_persis- 
tente elastice dissilientibus, szepissime septicide bifidis, ab apice ad basim in- 
volutis, v. sursum revolutis, endocarpio cartilagineo. *Semina in loculis plurima 
v. pauca, rarissime abortu solitaria, inversa. Hmbryonis exalbuminosi ortho- 
tropi cotyledones plano-convexe ; radicula obtusa, supera.—Herbee sepissime 
annua, in Asia Orientali tropica et subtropica copiose, in Capite Bone Spei, 
America Boreali, Europa et Asia temperata rare ; foliis alternis, oppositis v. ter- 
natis, lineari- vel lato-lanceolatis, serratis v. dentatis, rarissime omnibus radicali- 
bus longe petiolatis, exstipulatis ; pedunculis avillaribus, solitariis 0. aggregatis, 
- vel plurifloris. Endl. 
Impatiens flaccida ; glabra herbacea, foliis alternis tenuiter membranaceis longe 
petiolatis elliptico-oblongis acuminatis basi in petiolum attenuatis crenato- 
serratis, petiolis parce glanduloso-setigeris, pedicellis solitariis binisve fili- 
formibus folio brevioribus, sepalis lateralibus oblongo-lanceolatis anteriore 
plus duplo brevioribus, posteriore petalis subzequali, calcare filiformi (medio _ 
crassiore ?) apice attenuato flore subduplo longiore, capsula elliptico-oblonga 
basi et apice attenuata glabra. Arn. 
ImpaTIens flaccida. Arn. Ind. Bals. in Hook. Comp. to Bot. Mag. v. 1. p. 32. 
Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 1. p. 468. Hook. fil. et Thoms. Balsamin. in Journ. 
of Linn. Soc. 1860, p. 134. Thwaites, En. Pl. Zeylan. p. 65. : 
Impatiens pulcherrima. Dalz. in Bot. Mag. t. 4615? 
Impatiens latifolia, var.? Linn, Sp. Pl. p. 1828. An Wail. Cat. n. 4737 A? 
(Hook. fil. et Thoms.). 
Impatiens lucida. Wall. Cat. n. 4738 (Herb. Henslow). 
A lovely species, of a most lovely and, as now known to us, 
very extensive genus, especially abounding in tropical India. 
Linneeus, in 1764, enumerated seven species as all that were 
OCTOBER IsT, 1861], 
