. 
Impatiens, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 651 
rate lobes, and apex rounded, in luxuriant plants the scapes 
are many-flowered. Flowers as and very general- 
ly without a corol. 
Received from the Mauritius into the Botanic garden in 
Bengal, where it is in constant flower and seed the whole 
- year. 
IMPATIENS. Schreb. gen. N. 1365. 
Calyx two-leaved, Corol five-petalled, irregular. Nec- 
tary cucullate. Anthers united.._Germ five-celled ; cells 
many-seeded ; attachment central. Capsu/es superior, five- 
celled, five-valved. Seed numerous, Embryo naked, with 
- centripetal radicle, : 
1. I. Balsamina. Willd, spec. i, AN75.. 
Leaves lanceolate, serrate. Peduncles one-flowered. Ne ec- 
tary shorter than the flower, 
Tilo-Onapa. Rheed, Jal. ix. 101. t. 52. 
Beng. Doopati. 
Hind. Gool-mendee. 
oS a tripetala. R. . 
Leaves alternate, opposite and tern, eval leone ser- 
rate. Peduneles from one to many-flowered. | Corol three- 
_Petalled; horn of the ample nectary hooked. 
_ Anative of the mountains near Silhet, where it flowers and 
Tipens its seed more or less the whole year round, Rheede’s 
Tilo-Onapu is, 1 think, more like ‘this than. it.is to 1. Bal- 
samina, though quoted for that species; and I can scarcely 
conceive this to be that plant in its original wild state. 
Root annual, fibrous. Stem erect, swelled at the leaves, 
scarcely pubescent in any respect. Branches opposite, se- 
veral pairs, and generally below the middle of the plant; 
whole height from one to two feet, Leaves on the stem op- 
* posite, and tern ; on the branches often alternate, long-peti- 
