Tab. 7381. 

 IMPATIENS auricoma. 



Native of the Comoro Islands. 



Nat. Ord. Gekaniace^e — Tribe Balsamine*:. 

 Genus Impatiens, Linn, ; (Benth. £f Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol.i. p. 277.) 



Impatiens, auricoma ; glaberrima, caule erecto, foliis alternis longe petiolatis 

 lanceolatis acnminatis crenatis sinubus aristulatis supra laete viridibus 

 snbtus pallidis, petiolo roseo basi 2-tuberculoso, pedunculis axillaribus 

 erectis petiolis longioribus unilloris, floribus aureis, sepalis 3 dorso 

 carinatis, lateralibus orbiculatis apice mucronatis, dorsali erecto galeato 

 marginibus recurvis dorso infra apicem mucronato, petalis 5, lateralibus 

 per paria in laminas 2-lobas connatis, lobo superiore transverse oblongo 

 marginibus recurvis, inferiore minore rotundato, petalo dorsali late cym- 

 biformi mucronato dorso obtuse 2-carinato et 2-calcarato, calcaribus parvis 

 divaricatis uncinatis obtusis. 



I. auricoma, Poisson, Le Jardin, 1893, p. 53; 1894, p. 9, f. 3. Baillon in 

 Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, p. 598. 8. Mottet in Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. i. 

 p. 556. 



A handsome perennial Balsam, introduced accidentally 

 with tree-fern trunks from the Comoro Islands by M. 

 Humblot, traveller to M. Landry, the well-known cultivator 

 of Palms in Paris. It is described as growing to two feet 

 in height in M. Landry's nurseries, branching from the 

 base, and flowering profusely in the open air in summer, and 

 throughout the winter if taken up, potted, and kept in a 

 temperate house. Plants of it in the Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 from one of which the figure was made, were obtained 

 from the nurseries of M. Godefroy-Lebeuf, of Argenteuil, 

 which, when about six inches high, flowered in April of 

 the present year, and continued flowering for more than 

 a month ; they were all unbranched. 



Descr. A somewhat succulent erect quite glabrous 

 perennial herb, six inches to two feet high, simple or 

 branched from the base. Stem and branches terete, 

 reddish, nearly as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves six inches 

 long, alternate, spreading and decurved, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, crenate with short red bristles between the crena- 



October 1st, 1894. 



