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IMPATIENS olanduligera. 

 Glandular- Balsam. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Balsamine^ (Geraniacearum mera sectio). 

 IMPATIENS. Linncms. 



I, ylanduligera ; annua, erecta, foliis verticillatis ternatis ovato-lanceolatis 

 argute serratis scrraturis baseos glandulosis, stipulis teretibus clavatis 

 glandulosis, pedunculis axillaribus subterniinalibus 3-floris, sepalo dorsali 

 integro mutico, calcare brevi inflexo, petalorum lobo altero rotundato 

 altero dimidiato oblongo obtuso subfalcato, fructu brevi obovato. 



I. glanduligora. Roijle Illustrations, ^"c. of the Himalaya Mountains, 151. 

 t. 28. /. 2. 



This fine Balsam is tiie largest of the four Indian species 

 raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society last year, 

 it having attained upwards of twelve feet in height by the 

 end of August, although the seeds were not sown before the 

 end of May, It is not so hardy as those with the long fruit, 

 but flowers freely all the autumn, and is one of the most 

 beautiful plants that can be looked upon if grown in an 

 atmosphere it likes. What that atmosphere is has already 

 been shewn at folio 9 of the present volume, to which I pro- 

 ceed to add the following from the work of Dr. Royle, who 

 obtained this species from Cashmere seed. 



" There is a peculiarity in the hill climate of India, where 

 the moderation and equability of temperature, excess of mois- 

 ture, and consequent smallness of evaporation during the rainy 

 season, has been shewn to be favourable to the existence of 

 tropical plants. At this season the Balsams may be seen, 

 apparently unchanged for weeks together, with other plants 

 that delight in a moist temperature, as Orchideie, Scitaminese, 

 a few Melastomacese, Cyrtandracese, Begonias, the beautiful 

 Platystemna violoides, and others of which the genera are 

 considered peculiar to a tropical climate ; and of so loose, 

 moist, and cellular a texture as would at any season in this 

 locality be destroyed in a single day." 



