Tas. 4662. 
IMPATIENS mMacroPHYLLA. 
Large-leaved Ceylon Balsam. 
Nat. Ord. BALSAMINE®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4615.) 
IMPATIENS macrophylla; erecta herbacea simplex, foliis alternis amplis (nunc 
subpedalibus) ovatis acuminatis grosse mucronato-serratis utrinque pilosis 
basi setis mollibus glandulosis fimbriatis in petiolum longum (rubrum) parce 
setoso-glandulosum attenuatis, pedunculis unifloris axillaribus dense aggre- 
gatis petiolo brevioribus, floribus _parvis luteo-roseis, sepalo superiore 
(sepalis 2 unitis) apice unguiculato inferiore cucullato glabro calcare brevi 
incurvato parcissime setoso apice inflato didymo. ' 
Impatiens macrophylla. Gardn. in Herb. Hook. 
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We have here another of the many curious species of Balsam 
which abound so much in Ceylon, and we may say perhaps in 
the moist and mountainous parts of India generally. Our gar- 
dens are indebted for seeds of this to Mr. Thwaites, the able 
superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Peradenia, who sends 
_ it to us from Adam’s Peak (no. 436 of Mr. Thwaites’ dried col- 
2 lection), and Mr. Gardner’s specimens (no. 159 of his collection) 
are from Newra Ellia, at 6000 feet of elevation. We had, many 
years ago, received Ceylon specimens, without any particular 
locality, from Mrs. General Walker. Our plants flowered, at 
the Royal Gardens, in a moist but not very hot stove, in the 
early summer of the year after the seeds were sown; and, small 
though the blossoms are, yet their deep tawny orange-colour, — 
stained with red, and the numerous long bright petioles, to- 
gether with the ample foliage, render this a handsome plant. 
- Descr. Our plants attain a height of from two to three feet: 
in their native country they are probably much taller. The stem 
is erect, straight, as thick as, or thicker than, one s finger, pur- — 
plish. Zeaves mostly at the top of the stem, below them are the 
Scars of many fallen ones: they are crowded, alternate or scat- — 
august sr, 1852. : 
