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Tas. 4623. 
IMPATIENS corNIGERA. 
Hlorn-bearing Balsam. 
Nat. Ord. BaLsaMINE®.—PENTANDRIA MOoNOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4615.) 
IMPATIENS cornigera; herbacea erecta inferne ramosa radicans, foliis alternis 
longe petiolatis ovatis acuminatis marginibus integerrimis scabris basi 
remote fimbriolatis, petiolis glanduloso-fimbriolatis, pedunculis aggregatis 
axillaribus unifloris petiolo brevioribus deflexis, floribus (roseis) sepalo 
superiore (2 sepalis unitis) dorso ungue viridi donato, inferiore cucullato 
pubescente, calcare brevi obtuso curvato lamina orbiculari. 
Raised in the stove of the Royal Gardens, from seeds sent 
from Ceylon by Mr. Thwaites. It flowered the whole summer 
and autumn, and may be pronounced a really ornamental plant. 
In our herbarium we find specimens which we consider to be 
identical, from Assam, sent by Major Jenkins, and among those 
specimens are some with glabrous flowers, which have consider- 
able affinity with Jmpatiens levigata, Wall., but from which the 
_ present appears truly distinct. 
Descr. Stem erect, three to four feet high, rather stout, succu- 
lent, semipellucid, striated, often red at the setting on of the 
leaves, very thick and much branched and rooting below. — 
Leaves alternate, large, sometimes nearly a span long, ovate, 
acuminated, epenninerved, pale beneath ; petiole and midrib 
generally red, the margin very obscurely crenato-serrate, the 
minute teeth bearing a seta which is long and conspicuous at 
the base of the leaf; the edge too, as seen under a lens, is every- 
where ciliated : petiole 1-2 inches long and nearly a line broad, 
semiterete, margined, the margin bent, with more or less numerous 
long soft distant fimbrie tipped with a gland. Peduncles aggre- 
gate, axillary, single-flowered, much shorter than the petiole, a 
little enlarged upwards, and curved down with the weight of the 
JANUARY Ist, 1852. 
