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XXX. BALSAMINACE^. 



[Impatiens. 



more feet tall, 22 in. through at base. Leaves deciduous, at the 

 apex of branches only, thin obovate or ovate narrowed to base 

 crenate ; nerves 13 to 14 pairs, glabrous, 5 to 9 in. long, 3-5 to 4*5 in. 

 wide; petioles i to 1-5 in. long. Racemes axillary 8 in. long 

 with 4 or 5 yellow flowers at the top opening singly. Flowers 

 175 in. long, not patent. Sepals lateral, ovate green and yellow, 

 .spurred one large funnel-shaped "6 in. across. Spur shorter incurved. 

 Standard oblong rounded. Hab. On limestone cliffs in the north. 

 Lankawi, Terutau (Curtis) ; Perils at Kanga. 



Fig. 34. — Impatiens mirabilis. 



(9) I. Vaughani Hook. fil. Kew Bulletin, 191 1, p. 250. 



A branched fleshy-stemmed plant about 2 ft. tall. Leaves 

 only at tips alternate ovate or elliptic acuminate entire or crenate, 

 base rounded or cuneate, 8- to lo-nerved, 3-5 to 4 in. long, 2 to 

 2"25 in. wide; petioles 3 in. long. Flowers i in. across, white or 

 violet to deep purple, spur cream colour, on short pedicels. Sepals 

 oblong obliquely cuspidate, spurred one funnel-shaped with a 

 short incurved bifid spur. Petals standard small oblong cuspidate; 

 wings lower lobes rounded shortly stipitate, upper connate rounded 

 oblong. Hah. On limestone rocks in the north. Jalor at Biserat 



