XXXI. gkhaniacejE. 175 



pubescent and tomentose. Leaves 1-2 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate or 

 obovate, serrate, glabrous or with a few hairs above, more or less hairy 

 on the nerves beneath, base narrowed into the petiole, which is some- 

 times slightlv glandular. Flowers rose-colored, i in. across, axillary, 

 fascicled ; pedicels slioi't, scabrid. 8epals small, linear-lanceolate, hairy. 

 Standard somewhat rhomboidal, hairy outside, produced into a long 

 hairy beak. Wings with long oblong-obovate terminal, and small rounded 

 lateral lobes. Lip boat-shnped, acuminate, hairy. 8pur 0. Capsules ^ in. 

 long, ellipsoid, mucronate, villous. Seeds globose, minutely tubercled, 

 dark brown. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 454; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 44'; Bedd. Ic. 

 t. 144. 



Very rare. Konkan: Stocks ! ; S. Konkan, Bahcll cf- Gihso)i. 



16. Impatiens pulcherrima, Dalz. in HooJc Keiv Jovrii. Bot. v. 2 

 (1850) p. 37. Stem erect, Ig-^ ft. high, glabrous, simple or branched. 

 Leaves alternate, membranous, 3-5 by l:j-2 in., elliptic-oblong, acumi- 

 nate, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs above, glabrous and glaucous 

 benea<h, crenate-serrate, the crenatures setose, base acute; petioles 

 |-1| in. long, the upper part often with stipitate glands. Flowers 

 violet-purple, lg-2 in. across ; pedicels 2-3 in. long, 2-3 together, cui'ved 

 in fruit. Sepals small, lanceolate. Standard orbicular, notched, spurred 

 and keeled at the back. Wings broad, the terminal lobes obovate, the 

 lateral lobes large, oblong-elliptic. Lip short, deeply boat-shaped, 

 mucronate. Spur long, curved. Capsules | in. long, very turgid in the 

 middle, at first puberulous, at length glabrous, obtusely beaked. Seeds 

 subglobose, rugose. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 458 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 44 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 266.— Flowers: Sept.-Oct. 



In the Flora of British India 1. c. the sepals are described as bifid. 

 In all the specimens I have examined, I have found the sepals entire at 

 the apex. 



Eather rare. Konkan : shadj' jungles in the Wari country, Dahcll <^- Gibson ; road 

 from Wadi to Poladpur, Woodrow ! Deccan : Fitzgerald Ghat below Mabableshwar, 

 Cooke ! S. M. Country : Londa, Woodrow. 



A very handsome plant wliicli has been successfully grown at Kew from seeds 

 supplied by Dalzell. There is an excellent figure in the Botanical Magazine for 1851, 

 t. 4615. 



Oedee XXXIL RUTACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, abounding in pellucid glands filled with 

 essential oil. Leaves exstipulate. Flowers regular, usually herma- 

 phrodite, in axillary or terminal cymes or panicles, never spiked. Calyx 

 of 4-5 small lobes or sepals. Petals 4-5, hypogynous, valvate or imbri- 

 cate. Stamens 4-5 or 8 or 10, rarely more {'Citnis, JEr/le) • filaments 

 usually free, hypogynous ; anthers 2-celled, introrse. Disk within the 

 stamens, crenate or lobed, sometimes large and long. Ovary of 4-5 free 

 or connate carpels ; ovules usually 2 in each cell ; styles as many as the 

 carpels, free or variously united ; stigmas terminal, entire or lobed. 

 Fruit a capsule, berry or drupe, or of 1-4 capsular cocci. Seeds usually 

 solitary in the cells ; testa various, often crustaceous and shining ; 

 albumen fleshy or ; embryo straight or curved ; radicle always superior. 

 — DisTEiB. Throughout the warm and temperate regions of the world ; 



