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projections of the placenta which occupy the axis of the ovary and are connected with its apex by 5 slender 
threads. Capsule elastically 5-valved, often 1-celled by the disappearance of the dissepiments. Seeds nume- 
rous or few.—W. and A. Prod. p, 135. 
T here adopt our original generic character founded on Kunth's explanation of the structure of the 
flower, first as being easiest understood and being most consistent with appearances; and, ee because if 
Taltered it, I must equally alter the characters of every species which are all draw 
n up in accordance with 
that view of their structure, and thereby do more harm, by the confusion and hustle that would be 
created between the two books, than would be compensated by any advantage to be derived from the more 
correct designation of the parts named in the description. According to Roeper’s explanation ; the first part of 
the generic character would run thus—Ualyx, sepals 5, or by abortion 3, unequal, the posterior one, anticons 
larger, epsrned or —— at dh forage feos ones smaller, anterior pair minute or wanting. Corolla, petals 5, 
roneaveas 
CUUCAYE, 
the anter ior 
the lateral ones united by pairs, sometimes lobed. Stamens 
&c., as in the sharseter iis: Ina pravtival point of view, ia the discrimination of species, no advantage 
would be obtained from the change, 
Impatiens Froticosa (D. C.) erect, branched: 
statin ecbiectis: glaucous : leaves alternate, long-pe- 
tioled ; a Opeet ride sid particularly on the veins; 
under petioles — pegponeyade 
pednnates. glabrous, shorter than the lea dividin 
into several long 1- flowered ar re ei shorter 
han the spur : Taiveat sepals large, concave, round- 
ish-ovate, acuminated : filaments united at the e apex : 
seca combined: capsule glabrous, tapering at 
both e s.— W. and A. Prod. p. 137. 
noble > etch have only found 
‘Sede d Coonoor, it seems to 
greater part of hie: see 
gathered in Aug ust, and Ia 
_— Kot- 
he 
ou the banks 
dit Feed ae 
t high, cpr ve ry 
as richly flowers FP at ure 
This species is well adapted for sews: ae com- 
pound nature of the lateral petals, 
IMPATIENS ScaPrFLoRA (Heyne) glabrous : root 
tuberous: leaves radical, orbicular, on 3 sinuate- 
cordate, the lobes overla apping, coriaceous; under 
side paler, marked with ice get = u pe 
scape bearing a many-flowered raceme, bracteate 
seh alternate, sohiaty teots ask bis ea, deadet, 
n fruit becoming exe latera sepals ate, 
salt ur sometimes tumid and inflated, sometimes 
much elongated: petal obe 
d; posterior lobe 
small; anterior at blo projecting forward.—W, 
and A. Prod 
This ag beatiful a unuseal form of Balsa 
is most 
July till Gteieer ir 
ges! io September 
s the lower half 
MPATIENS MopEsTA (R. W.) leaves few, radical, 
Imp 
broadly cordate- ovate, or sub-orbicular, wae above ; 
— and pale shin ing glau ucous beneath: scape 
tracemose many flow ; fowes rs vert rather 
ulate 
ie pedicelled, from ie. wail of a small 
bractea: upper sepal broad obovate or suborbicular, 
the lateral ones narrow lanceolate or subulate 
bent on the upper; lower shorter than the 
with a short Avokte spur: d 
(lower petal two cleft upper entire) gh hear the 
y many ch : capsule glabrous ovate. (R. W. Madrus 
urnal. 
r 
arg woods about Pycarab, flowering July and 
August. Plant from 8 to 12 inches high, leaves from 
1} to 2 ‘inches broad flowers from 10 to 20. Petals a 
Impatiens RurESceNs (Benth.:) stems erect, 
ranuc ‘hed, jointed, glabrous: leaves ee. -petioled, 
from ge and slightly cordate to obovate, sharply 
serrated ; upper side hispid with short phe s hairs; 
under glabrous and whitish, except the nerves whiclt 
are hairy: pedicels solitary or in pairs, about the 
length of the leaves, villous: posterior sepals mucha 
anterior saccate, without a 
the petals oblong, protruded, 
rt at havghagas one: 
—W.a 
spur : anterior lobes o 
much larger than the sho 
capsule oval, glabrous. -p. 138. 
requent in swampy inden and on the mr 
sides of small streams, roe during the rainy s 
son, but may be met with in flower the greater part of 
the year near y Sear gl here the ground is alwa ays w 
This species affords = of the great oat 
lity in the size of the. o halves of the compound 
petals and of asaccate poy spurred sepal, 
TENS INCONSFICUA (Benth.:) branched, 
fr i 
base, vtely and sl y bristle-serrated; under 
side pale, glaucous pes solitary = several 
7 shorter than the leav es, seesegg segue 
sepals nearly equal to the flowers, linear ; “hogan 
gibbons ietthout bytes me iat glabrous, ire 
seeded,— WV, and A. Prod. p. 139, 
