136 BALSAMINEZE. ImMPATIENS. 
1: wulgaris ; leaves large, broad-lanceolate ; flowers large, about as long 
or longer than the spur.—z, hortensis ; flowers longer than the spur. 
— Wight! cat. n. 980.—I. Balsamina, Linn.! ; Willd. sp. pl. 1. 
p.1175; Lam. ill. t.725; Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 651; (ed. Wall.) 2. 
p. 453 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 807 ; Wall. ! L. n. 4731.—Balsamina horten- 
sis, DC. prod. 1. p. 685; Rumph. amb. 5. t. 90; Rheed. Mal. 9. t. 
52? B, sylvestris; flowers usually about as long as, or slightly 
shorter than, the spur.— Wight! cat. n. 456.—I. cornuta, Linn. ! in 
herb. Herm.! ; sp. p. 1328; Spr. syst. 1. p. 807 ; Wall.! L. n. 4733, 
a, €, d.—1. coccinea, Sims. in Bot. mag. t. 1256.—Balsamina cornu- 
ta, DC. prod. 1. p. 686.—B. coccinea, DC. I. c. p. 685.—Burm. Zeyl. 
- t-16. f. 1 (flower bad). 
2: longifolia ; leaves linear-lanceolate ; flowers small, much shorter than 
the very slender spur.— Wight ! cat. n. 455.—1. longifolia, Wight in 
Wall.! L. n. 4734.—1. coccinea, Wall.! L. n. 4732.—I. cornuta, 
Wall.! L. n. 4733. b. 
We have referred with doubt to Rheede 9. t. 52, on account of the leaves 
being represented opposite and the spur saccate with a short horn: at the 
same time all the other points agree. We fear that the figures of this and of 
the other species of the genus in Rheede are very incorrect. 
443. (2) I. areuata (Wall.:) suffruticose ?, diffuse, branched ; branches 
pubescent: leaves alternate, petioled, narrow-lanceolate, small, acumina 
at both ends, acutely serrated: petioles short, glanduliferous, pubescent: 
pedicels 1-2 together, densely pubescent, more than half the length of the 
leaves : flowers small: lateral sepals lanceolate, much smaller than the others ; 
anterior one densely pubescent, with a slender spur much longer than the 
flower: capsule ovate, tomentose.—JWall.! L. n. 47. 35; Wight! cat. n. 447. 
, Perhaps this is only a variety of I. Balsamina. 
~ 444. (3) I. Leschenaultii (Wall.:) suffruticose?, erect, branched ; branches 
ascending, almost glabrous : leaves alternate, short petioled, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminated, acute at the base, glabrous, with bristly incurved serratures: 
petioles without glands: pedicels solitary, shorter than the leaves: lateral 
sepals minute, caducous : spur slender, tapering, rather longer than the 
flowers, curved upwards: capsules small, drooping, glabrous, ovate, pointed, 
few-seeded.—Wall.! L. n. 4739. b. ; Wight! cat. n. 449.—Balsamina Les- 
chenaultii, DC. prod. 1. p. 686. : 
, De Candolle remarks that this species is very nearly allied to J. latifolia, 
in which we agree ; but the fruit is here glabrous, not covered with a dense 
pubescence, and the leaves, although occasionally opposite or nearly so at 
the top of the branches, on account of their approximation to each other, 
must be regarded as alternate. It thus appears to be the connecting link be- 
tween J. latifolia and the two species just described, having the corolla of I. 
latifolia and the alternate leaves of the other two: from all of them it i$ 
readily distinguished by the glabrous fruit. 
445. (4) I. seabriuseula (Heyne:) erect, branched, tomentose: leaves al- 
ternate, cuspidate-serrated ; upper side slightly pubescent; under haity, 
particularly: on the veins: pedicels aggregate, pubescent, much shorter than 
the leaves: upper and lower sepals densely clothed with a rusty pubescence, 
lower gibbous without a spur.— Heyne ! in Roxb. Jf. Ind. (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 464; 
ge L. n. 4736 (partly).—Balsamina scabriuscula, G. Don in Mill. Dict. 
. p. (48. 
There is a specimen from China of what appears to be a more glabrous va- 
riety of this plant; which Linnæus has put up, in his herbarium, with I. 
Balsamina. 
446. (5) I. pendula (Heyne:) erect, branched; branches with a line of 
hairs decurrent from the sides of the base of the short petioles : leaves alter- 
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