oe | PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA, Impatiens, 
oled, broad-lanceolar, serrate, a little hairy, particularly the 
serratures ; about three inches long, by ene broad. Flow- 
ers axillary, from one to many, in the latter case their long 
pedicels are inserted on a very short, common pedunele, 
Perianth of two, small, bracte-like leaflets. Corol three- 
petalled ; the upper one forming a roof over the interior part 
of the whole flower; Jateral pairs composed of two, large, 
roundish lobes each ; the lower lobes thereof forming the lip. 
Nectary large, with a hooked or incurved slender horn from 
its obtuse end. Stamina, &c. as in the genus. : 
It has a pretty appearance when in full blossom, the flow- 
ers being numerous, large, and of a lively red colour, with 
the nectary deeply tinged yellow. 
3. I. natans. Willd. spec. i. 1175. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, serrate. Peduncles three-flower- 
ed. Berries five-seeded. aia ak 
Telinga, Neer-Ganaroo, i, e. water Oleander, : 
This is a large annual species ; a native of ponds, ditches, 
&e. of sweet water. It flowers during the rainy and cold 
seasons, ees 
_ Stem piped, all the parts that grow in, or float on the water, 
bending in various directions, and being often some yards 
in length; the part above the water is erect, branchy and 
from one to two fect high. The former part is jointed, with 
roots from the joints, and the pipe interrupted there; the 
erect part five-sided, smooth, coloured, as thick as the fore- _ 
finger ; pipe interrupted at the leaves, as in the floating parts. 
Leaves sessile, scattered, lanceolate, serrate, smooth; from 
four to five inches long, and less than one broad ; there is @ 
gland on each side of the base instead of stipules. —Pedun- 
eles axillary, solitary, generally three-cleft, three-flowered. 
Braetes (Involucres) oblong, Flowers large, very beauti-~ 
px peek with red, white, and. yellow. Penoarpe : 
