Jmpaiiens.'] Geraniacecs. 207 



This may be really /. latifolia L.,* but that name has been so variously 

 applied that it is better dropped (see under /. cuspidatd)^ and one about 

 which there is no question employed. 



The most familiar of all our Balsams, being found everywhere in the 

 low country in moist, shady places, but it is not a hill species. It is a 

 very pretty plant, and there is a variety with the flowers pure white which 

 has long been under cultivation in England under the name '/. plafy- 

 petala alba.' 



The Fl. B. Ind. erroneously quotes Bot. Mag. t. 5625 for this. 



11. I. Kenslowiana, Am. in Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 322 (1835). 

 Thw. Enum. 65. C. P. 547, 49. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 458. Wight, Ic. t. 743 (/• albida). 



Perennial (?), stem stout, semi - woody below, slightly- 

 branched, usually nodose with prominent leaf-scars, glabrous, 

 white, young parts pilose; 1. 3-4 in., lanceolate, crowded, taper- 

 ing at both ends, acute, spinous-serrate with the lower serra- 

 tures filiform-glandular, more or less hairy or nearly glabrous, 

 petiole i-2i in., more or less hairy; fl. large, if in. or more 

 diam., solitary, ped. 2 in., erect, hairy; sep. large, nearly i in., 

 ovate, acuminate ; lip about same length ; spur long, i|-2| in., 

 tapering, slightly curved, hairy ; standard f in., orbicular, 

 broader than long, keeled on back ; wings very large, lobes 

 about equal, broad, rounded, flat; capsule i-i^in., pilose. 



Montane zone, 4000-6000 ft., in rocky places ; rather common, Gala- 

 :gama ; Ramboda ; Wattakelle ; Knuckles Mts. Fl. Sept., Oct.; white, 

 more or less tinged with pink. 



Also in Malabar. 



12. I. janthina, Thw. Eniun. 68 (1858). 



C. P. 3003. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 461. 



Annual, 6-9 in., stem short, about 3 in., simple, erect, very 

 succulent, quite glabrous ; 1. few, 1-5, closely placed at top of 

 stem, 2^-4 in., broadly oval, rounded at base, acuminate, 

 acute, distantly spinous-serrate, thin, membranous, glabrous, 

 petiole 1-2 in. ; fl. | in., ped. about as long, very slender, 2-8, 

 arranged in umbels, which lengthen out into short racemes, 

 peduncle erect, as long as or longer than 1., bracts ovate, 

 persistent ; sep. cordate -ovate, lip saccate, spur tapering, 

 curved nearly into a ring ; standard rotundate, hooded, wings 

 with the lobes nearly equal, the upper lobe acute, the lower 

 rounded ; capsule glabrous. 



Moist low country ; very rare. Hiniduma; Mapalagama; Lihinigala, 

 in the Pasdun Korale. Fl. December, August ; clear violet. 

 Endemic. 



* Koenig's specimen in Brit, Mus. is so named. 



