The mountains of Tropical Asia are the chief stations of these plants, a few of 
‘A which are scattered in N. America, and Europe, and one in Madagascar. The 
fi . common ‘ Balsam” of gardeners is a familiar example of the Order. None are of 
much value to mankind. 
I. IMPATIENS, L. 
Ovary 5-angled or terete, 5-celled, with several ovules in eachcell. Cap- 
sule 5-valved, splitting elastically. Seedsnumerous or few. Endl. Gen. 
6060, 
Annual or perennial, succulent herbs, natives of the warmer, temperate and tro- 
pical zones, chiefly of the Northern Hemisphere. Leaves alternate, opposite or — 
whorled, linear or lanceolate, serrate or toothed. Peduncles axillary, one or many- 
flowered. Flowers yellow, red, white or parti-coloured. Name, impatient, from the 
sudden opening of the capsule, when suddenly compressed. English name “ Touch- 
me-not.” 
1. I. capensis (Thunb. Prod. p. 41); leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, 
acuminate at each end, with piliferous crenatures ; peduncles axillary, 
solitary, capillary ; spur longer than the flower. /V. Cap. p. 187. Bal- 
_ samina capensis. DC. Prod. 1. p. 686. 
_ Has. River banks in woods, in George, Uitenhage, at the Kat River, the Bosch- 
_ rivier, and on to Port Natal, Thunberg, E. & Z.! Drege! Krauss, Gueinzius. Oct.— 
‘Mar. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D., Hook.). 
‘Stem herbaceous, weak, erect, fleshy, glabrous, simple, 1 foot high. Leaves 15-3 
inches long, 1-2 inches wide, narrowed into a sparingly piliferous petiole, with an 
obtuse acumination and piliferous crenatures, penni-nerved, glabrous or thinly hairy. 
Flowers from the axils of the upper leaves ; the peduncles 1-2 inches long. Corolla 
3 inch long, shorter than the slender spur, pale rosy. 
2. I. bifida (Thunb. l. c.); leaves alternate, petiolate, oblong, acu- 
minate at each end, serrated; spur very long, bifid. 7. Cap. 187. 
Balsamina bifida, DC. 1. ¢. ™ 
Han. Cape of Good Hope, Thunberg. % 
“Stem herbaceous, weak, smooth, simple, erect, a spaigong. Leaves alternate, 
petiolate, tapering at each end, a finger long. Flowers axillary, pedunculate. Pe- 
duneles capillary, very lax, a finger long. Nectary horned, iveral times longer 
than the flower, uncial, curved,” Thunb. Unknown to us. ~ 
= 
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Orper XXXIV. OXALIDEA, DC. 
coe. Se & Sonpeg.) ‘ 
xalidex, DC. a I. p. 689, Endl. Gen. cclvi. Oxalidacex, Lindl. 
and regular. Caly« 5-parted, imbricated in estiva- 
