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in glandulam reducta; oblongis, penninervibus, nervis tertiariis cum nervo medio rec- 
tum angulum formantibus, reticulatis, glabris, suprà scabris, subtüs levibus (6-8 poll. 
longis, 2 latis). Pedunculi longi (8-poll.) ; cymi decompositi, bracteis caducis; pedicelli 
densé ferrugineo-pubescentes, bracteolis subulatis, acutis, glanduloso-ciliatis. Calyx 
5-fidus, dentibus acutis. Corolle lacinie subemarginate. Stam. sterilia oblonga, emar- 
ginata; antherc lateribus inter se connexz, filamentis supra medium affixze. 
Differt a L. hirtá foliolis glabris, sessilibus, petiolisque alatis, apice glanduliferis. 
Ord. BarsAMINEX. 
Gen. Impatiens. Charactere quoad florem emendato1. 
Sepala 5 ; duo superiora minima, quandoque nulla ; duo lateralia simplicia ; inferius magnum, 
plùs minis inflatum et calcaratum. Petala 5 ; 1 superius, intra sepala duo squamiformia, 
magnum, plerumque dorso cristatum (vezillum) ; 4 lateralia, quorum duo utrinque inter 
se coadunata, unum bilobum efformantia (aic). 
* Racemi axillares terminalesque, subumbellati, 2—10-flori, pedicellis bracteo- 
latis; ale 2 calcarate. 
$. Folia sessilia ; flores purpurei. 
35. IMPATIENS AMPLEXICAULIS; foliis oblongis sensim acuminatis argute cre- 
nato-serratis, galeà obtusà calcare subiter incurvo, vexillo subrotundo, 
capsulá tereti acuta. 
Hab. Himala, in umbrosis, alt. ped. 7000-8000. Simla, Sambi. 
Caulis erectus, parcé ramosus (1-3 pedalis) 4-angularis, ad nodos glandulosus, purpurascens, 
glaber. Folia sessilia, inferiora opposita, superiora alterna, subamplexicaulia, ad basin 
glandula hemispheerica stipulata, oblonga sensim acuminata, arguté crenato-serrata, ser- 
+ I have ventured to propose a modification of the character of Impatiens, because I consider 
M. Kunth’s theory of the flower to be not entirely correct. He conceives the superior petal to be 
wanting, and the two superior sepals to be united into the vexillum, regarding the keel usually more 
or less present on that to be a mark of the junction. But I have found the two superior sepals actually 
present in some species: they are distinct in I. amplexicaulis and moschata, herein described, and 
even more so, though still very minute, in the Cashmir species introduced into England by Dr. Royle 
under the name of J. glanduligera, and figured by him in his * Illustrations of Himalayan Botany.’ 
In other species a rudimentary scale, or in others, again, a gland supplies their place; while in many 
I have been totally unable to detect any. I think therefore that I am justified in considering the 
vexillum as a single petal, and not as composed of two sepals united. I have since found that a 
similar view has been taken by M. Roper in the ‘ Linnea,’ vol. ix. p. 121. 
