BALSAMINEiE. 6$ 



lobe slightly indented on the inside, and one much 

 smaller one on the outside (usually covered). Capsule J^ 

 to M inch : seeds black and shining. The stiffly deflexed 

 fruiting pedicels are very characteristic, t. 49. Wight 

 Ic. t. 748. 



One of the commonest species here wherever the ground is 

 a little moist; very variable in size. Fyson 422, 543, 323, 

 2204. Bourne 87, 5232. 



Gen. Dist. Throughout the Western Ghats down to 3,000 feet in 

 Mysore, Assam, Bhotan, Khasia, and westwards to Burma and China. 

 For a Balsam the distribution is unusually wide. 



Impatiens inccnspicua Bentham ; F.B.I, i 447, VIII 

 18 ; a small plant 4 to 7 inches high, with numerous 

 branches, the lowest almost as long as the stem rather 

 thick and flaccid, glabrous. Leaves all opposite, from 

 V2 by 1/5 to I 54 by ^ inch, elliptic, acute at both ends, 

 with a few (six or fewer) bristle-like teeth on each 

 margin, whitish below, occasionally pubescent above; 

 veins inconspicuous. Pedicels solitary or in pairs, hair- 

 like, 54 to 1/5 inch, with a line of red pubescence, deflexed 

 in fruit. Flowers J4 to /^ inch : lateral sepals linear- 

 lanceolate, nearly as long : lip without spur, hardly 

 even saccate : wing with large round terminal lobe and 

 small linear lateral one near the narrow base, purplish 

 with white ends. Capsule ^ inch with about five glob- 

 ose, black, shining seeds 1/16 inch diameter, t. 50. 

 Wight Ic. t. 970. 



Nilgiris : Dodabetta, flowering September {Bourne 5248). 

 Not collected on Pulneys. 



Gen. Dist, Mountains of the Western Peninsula, 3 to 8,000 feet. 



Impatiens rufcsccns Benth. Wall. Cat. A^'j^'j ! ; VIII 

 23 ; Pink Marsh Balsam. Stems numerous, weak and 

 decumbent at the base, and rooting at the much swollen 

 nodes, rising up in clumps ; pinkish, very hairy (for a 

 Balsam) and flaccid. Leaves all opposite, thick, white 

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