204 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1 iu. or more in length. Flowers 1 in. in diam., flattish, rose-lilac. 

 Sepals ovate-oblong, acuminate : standard broadly obcordate with a fili- 

 form spur behind, the wings broadly bi-lobed. Capsule elliptic, turgid 

 in the middle. 



Malacca: on Mount Ophir, Gerai, &c. ; Griffith, Maingay. 



3. Impatiens chinensis, Linn. Herbaceous : stem 4 to 18 in. long, 

 Buberect, decumbent and rooting at the base, angled. Leaves subsessile, 

 varying from linear-oblong to obovate or almost rotund, acute or obtuse, 

 shai-ply serrate, always opposite, the base acute or rounded, often 

 auricled ; texture rather thick, glaucous beneath, glabrous or sparsely 

 hairy, '5 to 4 in. long : stipules setaceous, glandular, recurved. Flowers 

 •5 to i in. in diara., flattish, purple, or white. Pedicels solitary or 

 fascicled, sometimes longer than the leaves. Sepals linear : standard 

 orbicular, the wings semi-obovate, entire, auricled at the base ; spur 

 slender, long, incurved. Capsule '5 to '75 in. long, elliptic, turgid in the 

 middle. 



Malacca ; Griffith. Distrib. China, British India. 



6. Hydrocera, Blume. 



A glabrous erect marsh herb. Leaves narrow, alternate. Flowers 

 in short axillary 1-2-flowered peduncles, irregular. Sepals 5, coloured, 

 imbricate ; 2 outer lateral, flat ; posticous one produced into a short 

 hollow spur. Petals 5, the anticous outer, very large, concave. Disc- 

 glands 0. Stamens 5 ; filaments short, flat ; anthei's slightly cohering 

 around the pistil. Ovary 6-celled ; stigmas 5, sessile ; ovules 2-3 in 

 each cell. Drupe baccate, endocarp bony, truncate, 5-celled, cells 1-seeded 

 Seeds curved, corrugated, albumen 0; cotyledons plano-convex, thickish, 

 radicle short, superior. — Distrib. One tropical Asiatic species. 



1. Hydrocera triflora, W. & A. Prod. I, 140. Annual; the stem 

 often floating, fistular, often flexuose and rooting at the nodes ; branches 

 erect, 1 to 2 feet long, 5-angled. Leaves linear-lanceolate, serrate, 

 attenuated into a petiole at the base, stipulate, glands two. Flowers 

 1 in. in diam., red white and yellow. Drupe globose, '75 in. in diam., 

 smooth, red, when dry 6-angled and truncate. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 483 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 132 ; H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 iv. 156. JS. angustifolia, Blume Bijd. 241. Impatiens triflora, Linn. DC. 

 Prodr. i. 687 ; Wall. Cat. 4766. L ? natans, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. i. 687 ; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 652; Wall. Cat. 4755. Tytonia natans, G. Don, Gen. 

 Syst. i. 749. Balsamina angustifoUa, Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 16 fig. 2 

 {inaccurate^. 



In all the Provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 

 Distrib . Malayan Archipelago, British India, Ceylon. 



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