20 

 IMPATIENS Candida. 



White Balsam. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Balsaminace^e. 



IMPATIENS. Botanical Register, 1840. t. 8. 



I. Candida ; caule erecto, foliis verticillatis anguste lanceolatis acuminatis 

 argute serratis basi utrinque glandulosis, peclunculis terminalibus mul- 

 tifloris, sepalo dorsali inermi emarginato, calcare brevi incurvo, petalo- 

 rum biloborum lacinia altera nana cirrbata altera lanceolata acuminata, 

 crispa. JBot. Reg. 1840. misc. no. 204. 



Caulis orgyalis, strictus, ramosas, succosus, obtuse quadrangidus. Folia 

 ternathn verticillata, lanceolata, acuminata, petiolata, denticulis roseis secus 

 petiolum glandulosis fimbriala; glandulce quxdam conformes sed majores etiam 

 inter petiolos interjacent. Umbellse terminates, multi/torce, nutantes. Invo- 

 lucra sub-pentaphylla ; foliolis ovatis acuminatis pedicellis brevioribus. Flores 

 magni, candidi. 



A noble species, inhabiting the Himalayan mountains, 

 whence it has been imported by the Honourable Court of 

 Directors of the East India Company, who presented its seeds 

 to the Horticultural Society. 



It forms a stately annual, with brittle succulent stems, 

 about six feet high, bright green, obtusely quadrangular, and 

 branched from the very ground. The leaves are narrow- 

 lanceolate, tapered to a fine point, arranged in whorls of three 

 and edged with very fine crimson teeth. Between each pair 

 of leaves there stands a row of crimson glands, apparently in 

 the place of stipules. The flowers are large, showy, white, 

 a little speckled with crimson, and appear in loose terminal 

 umbels. They are produced in succession during all the 

 months of autumn. 



This fine plant, like all the others of the same genus, 

 lately figured in this work, is, properly speaking, a tender 

 annual, requiring to be kept during all the summer in a 



