Impatiens. 83 



ma sessile, acutum vel quinquecuspidatum. Capsula 

 quinquelocularis, loculicido - quinquevalvis; valvis a 

 basi ad apicem elasticc dissilientibus, introrsum re- 

 volutis; axi centrali libera, a dissepimentis tenuissime 

 membranaceis secedentc. Semina 3 — 4 in quolibet lo- 

 culo, pendula, exalburainosa. lutegumentum duplex, 

 utrumque membranaceum, tenue. Embryo rectus. 

 Cotyledones carnosae, plano-convexae. Radicula bre- 

 vissima, supera, hilum spectans. Herbae caulibtis 

 succulentis , ramosis. Folia simplicia^ opposita 

 vel sparsa, exstipulata, Pedunculi axillares,, uni- 

 pluriflori, 



Impatiens Linn. 

 Impatiens et Balsamina Cand. 



Character geuericus Idem ac familiae. 



1. Impatiens Nolitangere Ltnn. Spec. 1328. Schkuhr, 



Handb. 3. t, 270. Flor. Dan. t. 582. Engl. Bot. t. 037. 



Cand. Prod. 1. 687. Mert. et Koch. Germ. 2. 276. 



Sturm. Germ.fasc. 18. 



Caule crecto, ramosissimo, ad geniculos tumido; ra- 

 mis flcxuosis foliisque ^labris, sparsis, oblongpis, acutis, 

 g^rosse crenato-serratis, serraturis mucronatis; pednnculis 

 axillaribus, solitariis, 3 — 4-floris, sub folio patulis ipsoque 

 brevioribus; floribus pendulis; calcare uncinato-recurvo. 



I. lutca Lam. Gall. 2. 666. 



Balsamina Nolitang^ere Moench. Meth. 246. 



In umbrosis humentibus sylvarum frondosa- 

 rum. (Friedrichsfelde [Chamisso], Grunewald. 

 Brieselang.) Florct aestate. 



Flores citrini, ad faucem sanguineo-punctati. Sc- 

 palum inferins maximum, petaloideum, infundibulare, iu 

 calcar uncinatum recurvatura productum; sepala laleralia 

 parra, ovata, acuminata, viridia. Petala quatuor, valde 

 inacqualia, basim vcrsus per paria connata, lateralia 



