I8 GERANIACE^ 



Impaticns scabriuscula Heyne ; F.BJ. i 454, VIII 38. 

 A small plant, 4 to 10 inches, branched from the base. 

 Leave petioled, narrowly elliptic lanceolate to obovate, 

 I to 2 inches. Flowers J^ inch pink. Lip and standard 

 hairy. Wings three-lobed, the middle lobe more than 

 twice the outer, and the inner lobe very small. No spur. 

 Capsule Yz inch, ellipsoid, mucronate, villous. Seeds 

 few, globose dark brown, tubercled. Bedd. Ic. cxliv. 



Nilgiris : 6,000 feet. [G.F.M.F.] 



Gen. Dist, Western Ghats, from South Kanara and Coorg to Wynaad 

 and Nilgiris. 



The entire absence of even a vestige of a spur is remarkable in a 

 Balsam. 



Impatiens munronii Wt. ; F.B.I. i 456, VIII 48. An 

 undershrub up to 2 feet, sparingly branched. Leaves 

 hairy on both sides, 3 to 4 by l^ to 2 inches, elliptic, 

 acuminate. Flowers white on axillary pedicels ; stand- 

 ard helmet-shaped ; spur hairy like the leaves, tapering 

 nearly evenly from the boat-shaped lip to the slightly 

 swollen curved tip (similar to that of /. Phoenicia, Vol. II 

 t. 56). Wt. Ic. t. 1049. 



Nilgiris : Sispara jungles in dense shade \Wight\. 



Impaticns henslowiana Arnott ; F.B.I, i 458, VIII 53. 

 An undershrub easily recognized among Balsams by the 

 very large white flowers. Branches with prominently 

 swollen leaf scars. Leaves 3 to 5 inches, crowded at the 

 ends of the branches, petioled, elliptic, hairy on both sides. 

 Flowers I to 2 inches diameter on stout axillary pedicels, 

 white with pinkish tinge at the base of the petals. 

 Wings deeply divided into two broad flat parts, the 

 distal ones also notched. Spur longer, curved up slightly. 

 t. 297. Wt. let. 743. 



In ravines and clefts of rocks, and on steep banks, up to 

 7,000 feet. Pulneys : near Poombarai, Neutral saddle, etc. 

 Fyson 545. Bourne 807. 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats, 2,cco to 7,000 feet. 



