2o6 Geraiiiacece. Yimpatiens. 



I. Lcschcnaultii, Wall. (Wight, Ic. t. 970 bis) may be the same as 

 this ; it is common in the Nilgiris. De Canclolle, who first described it as 

 Balsaininn. Leschcnaultii (Prod. i. 686), says that Leschenault collected 

 it in Ceylon,* but this is denied in Fl. B. Ind., where it is kept as a 

 distinct species near /. latifolia {cuspidata). 



9. Z. truncata, Thio. Enum. 66 (1858). 

 C. P. 2426. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 455. 



Annual, stem 1-2 ft., decumbent at the base and rooting 

 at the nodes, hairy or glabrous ; 1. 1-3 in., oval, tapering to 

 base, acute, spinous-crenate or nearly entire, glandular-hairy 

 or glabrous, flaccid, pale beneath, petiole long, slender, winged 

 in upper part ; fl. small, -| in. diam., solitary (rarely 2), on 

 slender, glabrous or hairy ped. ^-i in, long ; sep. minute ; lip 

 shallowly boat - shaped, hairy ; spur very short, straight ; 

 standard I in., rotundate, cuspidate on back ; wings J in., 

 approximate, lower lobe much the larger, i-oval, upper lobe 

 rounded, truncate ; capsule pilose. 



Montane zone from 4000-7000 ft. ; rather common. Fl. all the year ; 

 pale pink or nearly white. 

 Endemic. 

 The very different wing-petals easily distinguish this from /. leptopoda. 



10. Z. flaccida, Ar7i. in Coiiip. Bot. Mag. i. 332 (1835). Kudalu- 

 aial, S. 



I. latifolia, Moon Cat. 18 (? L.). C. P. 2791. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 457. Bot. Mag. t. 5276 (good). 



Annual, 1-2 ft., stems branched, swollen at nodes, rather 

 zigzag, nearly glabrous, succulent ; 1. always alternate, 2^-4 in., 

 oval or ovate, tapering into petiole, shortly acuminate, acute, 

 glandular-serrate, glabrous above, paler beneath, with the lat. 

 veins prominent and pubcrulous, thin, petiole |-i^in., flat on 

 top; fl. rather large, i-ii in. diam., solitary, ped. 1A-2 in., 

 smooth, erect ; sep. minute, linear, acute ; lip saccate, with an 

 acute point, keeled; spur i-i|in., slender, curved; standard 

 broadly obcordate, strongly keeled on back ; wings very 

 deeply lobed, lobes nearly equal, rounded, shallowly bifid ; 

 capsule I in., ovoid, pointed, gibbous ; seeds globose, papillose. 



Moist low country, extending upwards slightly into lower montane 

 zone ; very common. Fl. most of the year ; bright mauve-pink, rarely 

 Avhite. 



In Java; apparently also in Southern India, but I am not sure that the 

 plant called I.jlaccida there is the true plant. 



* Leschenault spent seven months in Ceylon in 1820-21, and visited 

 the interior. 



