Plants from North- Western India. 37 



in glandulam reducta ; oblongis, penninervibus, nervis tertiariis cum nervo medio rec- 

 tum angulum formantibus, reticulatis, glabris, supra scabris, subtiis laevibus (6-8 poll. 

 longis, 2 latis). Pedunculi longi (8-poll.) ; cymi decompositi, bracteis caducis ; pedicelli 

 dense ferrugineo-pubescentes, bracteolis subulatis, acutis, glanduloso-ciliatis. Calyx 

 5-fidus, dentibus acutis. CoroUae laciniae subemarginatae. Stam. sterilia oblonga, emar- 

 ginata ; antherae lateribus inter se connexae, filamentis supra medium aiRxae. 

 Differt a L. hirtd foliolis glabris, sessilibus, petiolisque alatis, apice glanduliferis. 



Ord. Balsaminej!. 



Gen. Impatiens. Charactere quoad Jlorem emendato^. 



Sepala 5 ; duo superiora minima, quandoque nulla ; duo lateralia simplicia ; inferius magnum, 

 plus minus inflatum et calcaratum. Petala 5 ; 1 superius, intra sepala duo squamiformia, 

 magnum, plerumque dorso cristatum [vexillum) ; 4 lateralia, quorum duo utrinque inter 

 se coadunata, unum bilobum efformantia [ake). 



* Racemi axillares terminalesque, suhumhellati, 2-lO-flori, pedicellis bracteo- 



latis ; aloe 2 calcaratce. 



\. Folia sessilia ; Jlores purpurei. 



35. Impatiens amplexicaulis ; foliis oblongis sensim acuminatis argutfe cre- 

 nato-serratis, galea obtusS, calcare subiter incurvo, vexillo subrotundo, 

 capsula tereti acuta. 



Hab. Himala, in umbrosis, alt. ped. 7000-8000. Simla, Sambi. 



Caulis erectus, parce ramosus (1-3 pedalis) 4-angularis, ad nodos glandulosus, purpurascens, 

 glaber. Folia sessilia, inferiora opposita, superiora alterna, subamplexicaulia, ad basin 

 glandula hemispbserica stipulata, oblonga sensim acuminata, argute crenato-serrata, ser- 



t I have ventured to propose a modification of the character of Impatiens, because I consider 

 M. Kunth's theory of the flower to be not entirely correct. He conceives the superior petal to be 

 wanting, and the two superior sepals to be united into the vexillum, regarding the keel usually more 

 or less present on that to be a mark of the junction. But I have found the two superior sepals actually 

 present in some species : they are distinct in /. amplexicaulis and moschata, herein described, and 

 even more so, though still very minute, in the Cashmir species introduced into England by Dr. Royle 

 under the name of /. glanduligera, and figured by him in his ' Illustrations of Himalayan Botany.' 

 In other species a rudimentary scale, or in others, again, a gland supplies their place ; while in many 

 I have been totally unable to detect any. I think therefore that I am justified in considering the 

 vexillum as a single petal, and not as composed of two sepals united. I have since found that a 

 similar view has been taken by M. Roeper in the ' Linnsea,' vol. ix. p. 121. 



