Impaftens.'] GeraiiiacecB. 203 



Van /3. bipartita, Am. I.e. 322 (sp.). C. P. 503. Bot. Mag. u 

 5625 (/. laiijolia). Fl. B. Ind. i. 457 (under I.flaccida). 



Large, 8-10 ft, much branched ; 1. narrower, thicker, with 

 more oblique veins ; spur shorter ; fl. paler in colour. 



Montane zone, from 4000-7000 ft; rather common. Above Gala- 

 gama (Gardner); Adam's Peak ; Bopatalawa ; Rangala. Var. /3. Nuwara 

 Eliya, abundant ; Nanu-oya ; Ramboda, &c. Fl. March and April, 

 September ; mauve-pink ; Var. /3. pale pink or nearly white. 



Also in mountains of S. India ; var. 1^. endemic. 



This is referred in Fl. B. Ind. to /. latifoHa, L. and said to have sub- 

 opposite and whorled leaves. The leaves of our plant are always alter- 

 nate. Linnfeus' /. latifoHa is based on Rheede's figure (Hort. Malab. ix. 

 t. 48), which seems rather to agree with I.flaccida (q. v.) than with this. 



Var. /3. is a very conspicuous Balsam from Nanu-oya to Nuwara 

 Eliya. /. bipartita, Arn. is given, with doubt, as a synonym oi I.flaccida 

 in Fl. B. Ind., but it is much better put with /. cuspidata, as Thwaites also 

 has it. 



4. I. Balsamina, I. Sp. Pi. 938 (1753). K,udalu-kola, S. 



Thw. Enum. 65. C. P. 1213. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 453. Rheede, Hort. Malab. ix. t. 52. 



Annual, erect, 1-3 ft, stem glabrous or pubescent, slightly 

 branched ; 1. alternate, obscurely petioled, i-|-5 in., narrowly 

 lanceolate or linear, tapering at both ends, especially at base, 

 coarsely spinous-serrate, the lowest serratures often filiform 

 and glandular, glabrous ; fl. rather over i in. diam., on slender, 

 pubescent ped. much shorter than 1., 1-3 from axils of upper 

 1. ; sep. very small, linear, lip keeled, mucronate, hairy ; spur 

 I in. or more, slender, curved, strongly pubescent ; standard 

 small, roundish, retuse ; wings very much larger, lower lobe 

 very large, bifid, rounded, upper lobe much smaller, obtuse, 

 retuse ; capsule f in., pointed, tomentose ; seeds globose, 

 tubercled. 



Var. /3. comuta, Trim. Herm. Mus. 30. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 16, 

 {. i. Fl. Zeyl. n. 316. /. carmita, L. Sp. PI. 937. 



L. broader ; fl. smaller ; spur longer, very slender. 



Wet places at elevations of 2-4000 ft.; common. Fl. Sept.-Jan.; 

 bright pink. 



Found throughout India, Malaya, and China. Considered to be 

 original of the Garden Balsam. 



5. I. g'landulifera, Ar/i. in Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 322 (1835). 

 Thw. Enum. 66. C. P. 2427. 



Fl. B, Ind. i. 454. Bot. Mag. t. 4623 (/. cornigera). 



Annual, stem very stout, erect, 4-6 ft., scarcely branched, 

 succulent, red ; 1, large, 5-7 in., crowded near top of stem, 

 oval or oval - ovate, much tapering at base, acute, finely 



