Balsaminets.] ceylost plants 



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XLVII. BALSAMII^E^. 



1. IMPATIENS, Linn. 



(Nom. vulg. •* Koodaloo-mal.") 

 Sect. 1. Foliis oppositis. 



syn.; W aJi3. Hep. 1. 475.)— c.p. 31. 



.^^^- ^^jy abundant, especially amongst high grass, from the level 

 of the sea to an elevation of 7000 feet. ° ° ^ ' 



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Sect. 2. Foliis alternis. PediceUis axillarihus, soUtariis vel plurihus. 



(W 



135, cum syn.)— c.p. 1213. 

 3000 to 6000 feet. 



p. 468 ; Wight, Icones, t. 741.— c.p. 156. ' f i^ 



Var. ^./o^m longioribus.— J. hipartita, Arn. 1. c. i. 322 j Walp. Eep. 



Hab. Var. a. Above Galagama, Gardner. Var. j3. Central Province, 

 at an elevation of 4000 to 7000 feet. 



I can find nothing to distiiiguisli var. ^ from the other form of the plant but 

 Its longer, nan-owcr leaves, and these with rather more numerous and less distinct 

 primary veins. The flowers are of a duU reddish-purple iu both : the relative 

 size ot the anterior lobe of the petals vai-ies a good deal in different specimens. 



if ^" **®*^®l°«^iana, Arn. 1. c. ; Walp. 1. c. p. 469.— c.p. 49. 



Var. ^ foil IS tomcntosis.— J. alhida, Wight, Icones, t. 743.— c.p. 547. 



ilAB. Central Province, at an elevation of 4000 to 6000 feet ; on 

 rocks. ' 



The smoother variety of this species agrees very completely with Dr. Arnott^s de- 

 scnption, except that the posterior sepal is not three-lobed, but two-lobed, with a 

 wade smus. The flowers arc white, or slightly tinged with red. 



5. I. flaccida, Arn. 1. c. p. 322; Walp. 1. c. p. 468.— Z latifoUa, 

 Moon's Cat. p. IS.-c.p. 2791. ^ ^ J * 



Hab. Abundant, up to an elevation of 3000 feet * 



Herbacea, decumbcns. Flores rubro-purpurei, pallidi vel rai-iua caiidiJi, 1-li 

 poll, in csp. Sepalo posteriore obcordato, carinato ; petalorum Mis subscqualibus, 

 rotuudatis, cmarginatis. fe;?^;^^ juniora pilis pateutibus deciJuis vestita. 



1 do not find the spur in this species thicker towards the middle, and the appear- 

 ance was probably caused in Dr. Arnott's specimen by unequal pressure in drying, 

 itus must be closely allied to, if not a variety of, /. lailfolia, Linn., judirlng from 

 tne figure iu Ilheede, llort. Mai. ix. 91. t. 48; and the last paragraph lu the de- 

 scription of t. 52, jmge 101, in the same volume, woidd seem to*" imply that the 

 lormer has smooth capsules, though it is referred by Messrs. Wright and Aruott to 

 a species with them tomentose. 



6. I. leptopoda, Arn. 1. c. p. 321.—/. brevicornu, Arn. 1. c. J. gih- 

 ^osa. Am. I.e.; Walp. I.e. pp. 468, 469. //. Leschenaultii, Wmht' 

 Ic^. t. 970 bis,~c,v. 110 (455). 



-tlAB. Central Province, at an elevation of 5000 to 8000 feet. 



-T^recta, 1-3-pedalis. Petala rosea, divergentia, iobis suba^quilongis, posteriore 

 parum latiore, emarginato. Capsula glabrie. 



A very common, and also a very variable species, and the flowers are frequently 

 quite ecalcarate. The scattered, brittle, yellou' pubescence sometimes upon the 



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