Te 
Impatiens.) BALSAMINE® (Sond.) 311 
wuko and Omsameaba, &c, Drege / B. atthe Key. Oct.-Feb. (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., 
E. Mey., Sond.) 
Primary stem short ; secondary 1-14 feet high. Branches, when present, long 
andslender. Leaves rigidly membranous, one-nerved, the lower 5-7 lines long, two 
lines wide ; the upper gradually smaller and narrower. Corymb lax, its branches long 
and filiform. Pedicels as long as the calyx, in fruit rather longer. Sepals scarcely 
more than one line long. Petals yellow, according to Reichenbach 4 times as long 
as is calyx, but i ae the wild plant ny 2-3 times as long. Styles twice as me 4 
as the stamens, clavate stigmas. etgnpeer seis oct mae r-corn, n wit! 
white bands, 10-seeded, sub-acute ? ae a 
4.1L. quadrifolium sp. 402); fruticulose, glabrous ; secondary 
stems eomiatead 4-an; 53 simple or virgately branched ; lower leaves 4 
or 5 in a whorl, spreading, elliptical, or ovate-oblong, mucronulate, or 
acute at each end, upper opposite or alternate, narrower ; stip. glands 
two ; corymb lax, compound, several-flowered; sepals ovato-lanceolate, 
acuminate, glandular-ciliate, equalling the capsule, Thunb.! Cap. p. 
274, Bot. Mag. t. 431. DC. Prod. 1. p. 425. EB. & Z.1276. Planch. 
lc. p. 496. ; 
Has. Among shrubs. Mountains round Capetown, &. & Z./ W.H.H. 
Paarlberg, and at Keureboom’s River, Goons, and ee Vit, . aes / 
Sep.-Nov. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond., E. Mey.). 
1-2 feet high. Root slender. Secondary stems many, flexuous, 
simple or with a few opposite branches. Leaves patent or Brim he 68 Rae oa ‘oni ; 
3-4 lines wide, sometimes but half that size, rigidly membranous ; the upper ovato- 
lanceolate, opposite, the very uppermost scattered and emaller. Corymb few- 
flowered or divided and elongate, with distant flowers. Sepals ri lines long. Petals 
yellow, 5-6 lines long. Fruiting pedicels shorter than the x. Capsule sub- 
acute. Easily known from Z. Thunbergii by its more robust habit, broader and 
whorled leaves, and larger flowers. 
ORDER XXXII]. BALSAMINEZA, A. Riche 
(By Ww. Sonper.) é 
(A. Rich. Diet, Class, 2. 173. DC, Prod. 1. p. 685, “Endl a 
cclvii. Balsaminacee, Lindl. Veg. Kingd. elxxxvi. 
Flowers perfect, very irregular. Calyx 5—leaved, coloured, chdncous ; ; 
two lateral sepals outermost, fae ore small or minute; on one side 
Mopecagoer. the two fered Ww. 
me connate into 2 or 5 of which ‘the anterior evuaite the spurred - 
1) is much larger | than , hypogynous, imper- 
fontly syngenesious. Ovary free, s-celled ; ovale : 
pous ; stigma sessile. Fruit capsular (rarely drupaceous and fleshy), 
splitting elastically into 5 valves, and dispersing the exalbuminous a 
seeds. Embryo straight, with nd is oo and a short supe- es 
rior radicle. cen as 
Herbaceous Jenga with soft and. = Hagia 
