Tas. 4631. 
IMPATIENS FascicuLatTa. 
Fascicle-flowered Balsam. 
Nat. Ord. BALSAMINEZ.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char, (Vide supra, TaB. 4615.) 
ImpaTIENS fasciculata; erecta glabra, foliis oppositis sessilibus lanceolatis 
setaceo-serratis acutis basi utrinque calcaratis supra sub lente scabris, pe- 
dunculis axillaribus solitariis v. geminis longitudine foliorum, sepalis apice 
callosis lateralibus linearibus falcatis posteriore rotundato-ovato, calcare 
longissimo filiformi, petalis anterioribus magnis semiovatis hinc lobatis pa- 
tentibus. 
Impatiens fasciculata. Lam. Encycl. v. 1. p.359. Wight et Arn. Prodr. Fl. 
Penins. Ind. Or.p.138. Wight, Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. v. 3. p. 2. t. 748. 
BatsaMIna fasciculata. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 686. 
ImpaTIENns setacea. Colebr. in Hook. Exot. Fl. v. 2. t.1387. Mig. Pl. Ind. Or. 
(M. Nilagiri) ed. R. F. Hohenacker, 1851. n. 1139: Walp. Annal. v. 1. 
p. +75. 
Impatiens heterophylla. Wall. in Rox. Fl. Ind. (ed. Wali.) v. 2. p. 458. Cat. 
n. 4748 a. 
Baxsamina heterophylla. Duz. 
Seeds of this pretty Balsam were sent by Mr. Thwaites, from 
the hilly country of Ceylon, to the Royal Gardens of Kew, 
where the plants blossomed in the summer of 1851. The name 
“ fasciculata’”’ is not a very appropriate one; for though some 
of our wild specimens have the peduncles in opposite pairs, and 
hence appearing somewhat fasciculate, other specimens are not, 
and our cultivated plants had them invariably solitary in each 
axil. The genus or family is described as being destitute of 
stipules; but in the present species, unnoticed as far as I am 
aware by authors, yet figured by Dr. Wight’s artist, is a remark- 
able deflexed and very conspicuous spur at the base of each side 
of the leaf and decurrent with the stem, which I can look upon 
in no other light than asa stipule. ‘The plant is found in a great 
part of the continent of India, as well as in Ceylon, appearing 
all over the peninsula in marshy grounds, decorating them, as 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1852. 
