64 BALSAMINE^. 



Wight's sheet (/. scapiflora) at Kew, bears the name /. clavicornu 

 Turc. in Sir Joseph Hooker's handwriting. He had clearly discovered 

 Turczaninow's description and naming after writing the Flora of British 

 India, and after also writing the Epitome of the Indian species of Impatiens 

 in 1906 where the name Beddomei is retained. The name I. Beddomei 

 published in 1875, is therefore reduced in favour of Turczaninow's earlier 

 one. Colonel Eeddome in honour of whom Hooker named the plant was 

 one of the greatest of South India's botanists. 



Impatiens modesta Wight, Herh Prop ! ; F.BJ. i 442, 

 VIII 2 ; Sweet Seventeen. In habit very similar to the 

 last, but with slenderer stem. Leaves up to 3 by 2 

 inches, ovate-or-oblong-cordate, acute or obtuse, coarsely 

 crenate, with a few hairs scattered over the surface and 

 margin. Scape 3 to 6 inches tinged with red ; bracts % 

 inch ; pedicels ^ to M inch, very slender. Flowers 

 mauve-pink, up to M inch diameter, much as in /. clavi- 

 cornu, but the spur 1/5 inch only, and curved backwards ; 

 wings spotted near the base. Capsule J^ to 54 inch, 

 acute at both ends. t. 48. Wight Ic. t. 968. 



Nilgiris : near Pykara, at the lower limits of our area. 

 Bourne 4646. Not collected on the Pulneys. 



Not recorded northwards in the Bombay Ghats (C.B.F.) 



In the figure : a. fruit natural size ; b. same burst ; f. the contents — a 

 median placenta with numerous seeds attached ; many have dropped off 

 and show their attachments ; d. enlarged seed showing hairs. [E.T.B.] 



Impatiens chinensis Linn. ; F.B.I, i 444, VIII 10 ; 

 Chinese Balsam. Stem unbranched 4 to 20 inches high, 

 from a thickened, rooting, prostrate base ; glabrous. 

 Leaves all opposite, very shortly stalked, I to 4 inches 

 long and a sixth to a quarter as broad, ovate, acute, oblong 

 or lanceolate, not narrowed to the base, sharply serrate ; 

 lower side silvery-gray; nerves three pairs, not hairy; 

 stipules linear, % inch. Pedicels solitary or in fasci- 

 cles, slender, ij^ to 2^ inches, deflexed usually in fruit, 

 but sometimes not. Flowers mauve-pink or white, l% 

 inches across; spur 2 inches slender, curving forwards ; 

 lateral sepals ^A by H inch ; wings with one large 



