BALSAMINE/E. 63 



f Lip with a deep sac and at the bottom of it a small 

 I horizontal spur ; stems red, more or less pubescent ; 

 g^ flower red; leaves oblong . . , p. 66. I. tomentosa. 

 I Lip with a broad sac and no spur ; flowers rose pink • 

 [ leaves ovate /. 65. L rufescens! 



r § 4. Leaves alternate or opposite ; bush or shrubby plant, 

 j Leaf-blades 2 to 4 inches long ; petioles ^ to 3 inches, 

 h^ /. 68. L latifolia. 



I Leaves smaller, more crowded, spreading and recurved. 

 L /• 67. L leschenaultii, 



' § 6. Flowers umbelled. 



Stem unbranched, stout ; flowers white, bonnet-shaped, 



i \ with very short spur. . . p, 69. 10. L campanulata. 



I Small well branched herbs, 8 inches or less ; flowers ^ inch, 



[ pink ; spur short but curved, acute. . /. 69. I. goughii. 



Impaticns clavicornu Turczaninow [Bull. Soc. Nat. 

 Mosc. xxxii (1859), p. 271]; F.B.L (as L Beddomei 

 Hooker f.), i 442, VIII l ; White Orchid Balsam. A small 

 plant with tuberous rootstock J^ inch thick and slender 

 flowering stem, perfectly glabrous. Leaves all from the 

 rootstock ; stalk 2 to 5 inches ; blade circular-reniforra- 

 acute, or cordate, entire or with shallow crenations ending 

 in short red points, fleshy ; nerves mostly from the base, 

 arching forwards. Scape up to 12 inches high and J^ or 

 more thick at the base, white blotched with red ; bracts 

 ^ inch, edged with red ; pedicels slender, I inch, simi- 

 larly coloured. Flowers mainly white ; wings M by J^ 

 inch, cut into three oblong lobes, tinged with yellow at 

 the base ; spur shorter, curved forwards, yellowish 

 with touches of red ; standard % inch, hood-shaped, 

 and arching over and concealing the anthers and style, 

 reddish on the back. Capsule J^ inch, elliptic ; seeds 

 granulate, t. 47. Wight Ic. 967. 



In swampy ground (and also on Church Hill ; Ootacamund 

 where it vvas planted !), flowering plentifully in July and August 

 after the rains. Bourne 4605, 5990. Not collected on Pulneys, 



Gen. Dist. All along the Western Ghats above 6,000 feet. 



