Upon comparing this with the Indian species already pub- 

 lished we find nothing to which it can be considered referable, 

 although it approaches closely to several. The common 

 garden Balsam itself for instance is not very distinct, except 

 in the large size of the flowers, in the shorter and broader 

 leaves, and in a longer spur. /. longifolia has quite the same 

 foliage and habit, but its spur is long and straight, which, 

 together with its small flowers, renders it incomprehensible 

 how Wiffht and Arnott should have referred it to the common 

 Balsam as a simple variety. Impatiens coccinea is much more 

 like this than any of the others, but its leaves are shorter, and 

 its sepals are clothed with dense downiness, of which there is 

 no trace in the plant before us ; its back sepal too is not so 

 suddenly and finely tapered to a point. 



