l6 GERANIACE.^ 



Impaticns acaulis Am. ; F.B.I, i 443, VIII 6. Stem 2 

 to 12 inches. Leaves round, ovate-cordate, or oblong, 

 usually on slender petioles, more or less crenate : in 

 general with the habit of I. scapiflora (below). Wings 

 two-lobed. Spur long and slender. 



Nilgiris and Western Ghats, to 7,000 feet. 



Impaticns scapiflora Heyjte ; F.B.I. i 443, VIII 7. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, shallowly cordate, serrate from 

 base to apex, 2% to 4 inches long, on petioles of 2 to 4 

 inches. Scapes as long or longer, perfectly glabrous. 

 Flowers racemed near the top, deep pink on slender I 

 inch pedicels. Wings I inch long, deeply cut into 3 

 unequally wide lobes ; standard (hood) % inch ; spur 2 

 inches, incurved, t. 296. Wt. Ic. 751- 



Nilgiris : Coonoor, common on Lamb's Rk. Rd. Fyson 

 6237, 6340. 



Gen. Disi. Western Ghats, from South Kanara to Travancore, 6,000 to 

 8,000 feet. 



Impaticns Icvingei Gamble. Similar in habit and 

 in the general form of the flower to I. Beddomei Hook. f. 

 (I. clavicornu Turc.y Vol. I p. 63 and 11 t. 47) but flowers 

 carmine red not white and spur incurved, and not 

 inflated at the tip. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor, etc., at 6,000 feet on rocks. 



Impaticns divcrsifolia Wall. ; F.B.I, i 446, VIII 1 5. 

 Diffuse with ascending, succulent branches which root 

 at the lower nodes. Leaves all opposite, J^ to 3 inches ; 

 lowest smallest petioled, upper often dilated at the base. 

 Pedicels, slender, solitary or in pairs, in the leaf axils, 

 deflexed in fruit. Flowers flat, rosy ; spur curved 

 upwards, as long or longer than the flower. Seeds dark 

 brown, smooth, shining. 



Nilgiris : to 6,000 feet. 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats, South Kanara to Travancore. 



