70 BALSAMINE^. 



hooked point showing on the apex of the large standard, 

 and enclosed by the sepals which hides the short swollen 

 spur. Sepals nearly ^ inch, broadly ovate with short 

 acumen : lip /^ by % inch in depth, with very short slight- 

 ly turgid spur. Corolla campanulate, horizontal with the 

 lower side rather longer than the upper ; wings laterally 

 concave, the terminal lobe obovate retuse or obliquely 

 obcordate, with a small yellow auricle on the inner side 

 near the base ; lateral lobe much smaller- Capsule 

 glabrous, turgid, pointed at each end. Seeds globose. 



Easily recognised by the horizontal campanulate corolla, 

 which might be likened to an open mouth with protruding 

 tongue, or to a white sun-bonnet facing upwards. Wight Ic. t. 



744. 



On the outskirts of sholas and in other shady places ; 

 common on the Pulneys at 7,000 feet. Bourne 392. 



No specimens from other localities seen. 



Impatiens phoenicea Beddome ! ; F.B-L i 466, VIII 

 81 ; Red Helmet or Scarlet Balsam. Stem slender, branch- 

 ed or not, I to 3 feet, very dark coloured. Leaves alter- 

 nate, dark green, 2 to S% by to l^ inches elliptic-acute 

 or occasionally ovate with blunt cusp, crenate-serrate ; 

 stalk 5^ inch. Flowers racemed, four or five along the 

 uppermost third of axillary peduncles 2 to 4 inches long. 

 Bracts ovate J^ inch, persistent; pedicel slender, I inch 

 nearly horizontal when the flower opens. Flower in 

 shape somewhat different from other balsams, rather 

 narrow for its depth, with the lip narrowing into the 

 trumpet-shaped spur, and the standard more than usually 

 helmet-shaped. Sepals ^ inch obliquely ovate with a 

 short point ; lip ^ inch and its spur I inch, but the two 

 hardly separable, blood-crimson, trumpet-shaped with 

 swollen tip. Wings scarlet, but yellow at the base, with 

 an oblong terminal lobe and a smaller lateral cordate 

 one, not much exserted; standard scarlet, deeply 



