138 BALSAMINEA. IupATIENS. 
$ 3. Leaves opposite ; pedicels axillary, solitary or aggregate, 1-flowered. 
452. (11) I. /atifolia (Linn.:) erect, glabrous, or the young parts sprinkled 
with short shining brittle hairs : leaves membranaceous, oval, acuminated at 
both ends, petioled, crenate-serrated, with some of the lower cera 
dular; upper ones opposite, lower often alternate: pedicels usually so A 
shorter than the petiole: lateral sepals much smaller than the others; pos- 
terior ones petaloid, larger than the petals, concave: spur about the length 
of the flower: petals deeply 2-lobed, lobes oblong, the anterior the larger: 
capsule oval, tomentose with short intermixed yellow brittle shining hairs.— 
^ Willd. sp. pl. 1. p. 1174; Spr. syst. 1. p. 807 ; suppl. p. 89 ; Wall.! L. n. 4131; 
Wight! cat. n. 441, 451, 454.—1. lucida, Heyne! in Wall.! L. n. 4738.— 
I. Leschenaultii, Wight! in Wall.! L. n. 4739. a.—Balsamina latifolia, DC. 
prod. 1. p. 686.—Rheed. Mal. 9. t. 48. 
T 453. (12) I. Rheedei (W. & A.:) erect: leaves opposite, sprinkled with 
a few hairs, ovate-lanceolate, acute, attenuated at the base, crenate-serrated: 
pedicels aggregate, bent down in fruit, about three times shorter than the 
leaf: lateral sepals minute, caducous ; posterior one concave, as large as the 
petals; spur longer than the flower, subulate: posterior lobe of the petals 
minute and inconspicuous, anterior oblong: fruit narrow-oblong, tapering at 
both ends.—Balsamina Tilo, DC. prod. 1. p. 686.— Rheed. Mal. 9. t. 49. 
A species scarcely known, but apparently closely allied to our last: here, 
however, there are only three conspicuous petaloid parts of the flower; m 
the other there are five. On which account this approaches much to F. ti- 
petala, Roxb. ; but that species has not been found on the Peninsula, and be- 
sides has a spur of a different kind, larger flowers, and an axillary peduncle, 
bearing several pedicels: it may, however, prove to be T. tripetala, for expe- 
rience shews that no dependence is to be placed on the shape of the spur m 
old figures, and as to the aggregate pedicels, we find the peduncle so short in 
I. tripetala as to permit of its being easily passed over. We cannot adopt the 
name Tilo given by De Candolle, that being employed by Rheede in a generic 
sense for several of the à 
454. (13) I. rufescens (Benth.:) stems erect, branched, jointed, glabrous; 
leaves shortly-petioled, from elliptic and slightly cordate to obovate, sharply 
serrated ; upper side hispid with short callous hairs; under glabrous an 
whitish, except the nerves which are hairy: pedicels solitary or in pai's, 
about the length of the leaves, villous: posterior sepals much smaller than 
the petals ; anterior saccate, without a spur: anterior lobes of the 
oblong, protruded, much larger than the short roundish posterior one: Cap" — 
. sule oval, glabrous.— Benth./ in Wall.! L. n. 4747 ; Wight! cat. n. 448, 
The habit expressed by the figures in Rheede, Mal. 9. t. 50, 51, is so mu 
that of the present species, that we had doubts if we ought not to have adopt 
the specific name minor, given with the character derived from thése fig 
by De Candolle: but Rheede's description agrees so well with his figures 9 
the spur, that we are now rather inclined to refer both to our J. Kleinii. 
455. (14) I. fasciculata (Lam.:) stems erect, glabrous: leaves opposites 
almost sessile, from narrow-linear to lanceolate, usually rounded or core 
at the base, serrated ; upper side somewhat hispid ; under glabrous, whitish, 
and marked with coloured nerves: pedicels usually in pairs, slender, elon- 
gated, sometimes nearly as long as the leaves: sepals all with a callous point 
lateral ones linear, falcate ; posterior roundish-ovate, larger than the posterior 
but only half the size of the large anterior semi-obovate lobes of the "me , 
lower widely-infundibuliform, with a tapering slender spur about as long aS 
the pedicel: stigmas combined : capsule oblong, a little ventricose, tapering 
at both ends.—Spr. syst. 1. p. 807 ; Wight! cat. n. 452.—1. fascic $ 
Lam. Enc. Meth. 1. p. 359.—1. heterophylla, Wall.! in Roxb: fl. Ind. (et 
Wall.) 2. p. 458 ; L. n. 4748. a.—1. oppositifolia, Rottl. ! in herb. Sm.—Bals® 
