Impatient. pentandria monogynia. 651 



rate lobes, and apex rounded, in luxuriant plants the scapes 

 are many-flowered. Flowers diandrous, and very general- 

 ly without a corol. 



Received from the Mauritius into the Botanic garden in 

 Bengal, where it is in constant flower and seed the whole 

 year. 



IMP ATI ENS. Schreb. gen. N. 1365. 

 Calyx two-leaved. Corol five-petalled, irregular. Nee- 

 tary cucullate. Anthers united. Germ five-celled; cells 

 many-seeded; attachment central. Capsules superior, five- 

 celled, five-valved. Seed numerous. Embryo naked, with 

 centripetal radicle. 



1. I. Balsamina. Willd. spec. i. 1175. 



Leaves lanceolate, serrate. Peduncles one-flowered. Nec- 

 tary shorter than the flower. 



Tilo-Onapa. Rheed. Mai. ix. 101. t. 52. 

 £eny. Doopati. 

 Hind. Gool-mendee. 



2. I. tripetala. R. 



Leaves alternate, opposite and tern, broad-lanceolar, ser- 

 rate. Peduncles from one to many-flowered. Corol three- 

 petalled; horn of the ample nectary hooked. 



A native of the mountains near Silhet, where it flowers and 

 ripens its seed more or less the whole year round. Rheede's 

 Tilo-Onapu is, 1 think, more like this than it is to I. Bal- 

 samina, though quoted for that species; and I can scarcely 

 conceive this to be that plant in its original wild state. 



Root annual, fibrous. Stem erect, swelled at the leaves, 

 scarcely pubescent in any respect. Branches opposite, se- 

 veral pairs, and generally below the middle of the plant ; 

 whole height from one to two feet. Leaves on the stem op- 

 posite, and tern ; on the branches often alternate, long-peti- 



