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Impaticns fruticosa DC. ; F.B.I, i 459, VIII 57. An 

 erect much branched shrub, up to 8 feet high. Branches 

 glabrous but leaves hairy on the underside; peduncles 

 I to 2 inches, dividing into 3 or 4 pedicels bearing the 

 flowers. Flowers 1^2 inches, pink ; lobes of the wings 

 2, well separated ; spur I to l/^ inches. Capsule erect. 

 t. 298. Wight let. 966. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor and Kotagiri, near streams in jungles. 

 Jyson 6500, 6541. 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats, Nilgiris, Pulney and Travancore hills, 

 5,000 to 6,000 feet. 



Impatiens viscida Wight, Herb Prop. I \ F.B.I, i 462, 

 VIII 65. A small herb of very wet rocks. Stem3 red, 

 decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate-acute, about 2 by I J^ inches. Flowers light 

 purple or pink, two or three togetlier On a slender axillary 

 peduncle of about 2 inches ; bracts J4 inch;; sepals J^ by 

 54 inch, light brown ; hinder lobe of wing about one- 

 third only the size of the distal, which is nearly semi- 

 circular in shape and Yx inch long ; standard J^ inch, 

 concave; spur I to 1 54 inches, bent at upper end then 

 lying nearly straight close under and parallel to the 

 wings, in bud curled up over the rest. Capsules erect. 

 t. 299. Wt. Ic. t. 746. 



Pulneys : Kodaikanal or Jesuits walk near Pambar, etc., on 

 dripping rocks. Fpon 1096, 2154, 4124. 



Gen. Dist. Madura and Tinnevelly hills, 3,000 to 7,000 feet. 



Impatians omissa Hk.f. ; Rec. Bot. Sur. IV, p. 43. A 

 very small, slender annual herb. Leaves all opposite, 

 oblong or elliptic subsessile, % X.o I inch long. Flowers 

 in many — flowered short umbel-like racemes, on long 

 peduncles. 



Western Ghats, Anamalai and Pulney hills, 6,000 to, 

 7,000 feet. 



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