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Herba pusilla, caespitosa, 2-4°5 cm. alta, omnino glabra. Radiz 
tenuis, fusiformis, elongatus, circiter 2 mm, latus. Cauls dense 
ramosus, ramulis diffusis dense caespitosis. Folia radicalia longe 
petiolata, petiolo 2-5 cm. longo ; lamina 0°8-1°5 cm. longa, 0°7—-1 em. 
lata, crassa, spathulata, pinnatim 3-5-secta, segmentis subsessilibus 
late orbiculatis 3-fidis, lobulis obovatis, imbricatis, distincte mucro- 
natis, nervis obscuris. Racemiimmersi. Bracteae foliosae, ambitu 
obovatae, trisectae, circiter 1 cm. longae, basi 1 mm. latae; 
segmentum intermedium simplex, lineari-spathulatum, apiculatum, 
lateralia eodem modo trisecta nisi segmentulis lateralibus interdum 
inciso-serratis. Flores minuti, 7-8 mm. longi, calcari obtuso 
2-3 mm. longo, pedicello circiter 6 mm. longo. Sepala persistentia, 
minuta, elliptica, antice irregulariter paucidentata. Petalum inferius 
cochleariforme, lateralibus spathulatis. Staminum adelphii infra 
medium subito dilatati. Ovarium ellipsoideum, 9-ovulatum, stylo 
4 mm. longo stamina aequante. Stigma 3-lobatum crenatumque. 
Capsula pedicello arcte recurvo insidens oblonga, 1°5—2 mm, alta, 
circiter 1 mm. lata, saepissime 4—5-sperma, stylo persistente arcte 
recurvo coronata. Semina nigra, nitida, reniformia, circiter 1°5 mm. 
lata, 1 mm. alta. 
Tiset. Gyantse, H. J. Walton; Numa, H. M. Stewart. 
Herba gracilis, erecta, +: 7°5 em. alta, fere glaberrima, parviflora, 
caule basi repente parce ramoso, ramulis novellis puberulis. Folia 
obtusum. Capsulae 12-13 mm. longae, anguste ovoideae, fere 
rectae, vix stipitatae, obtuse rostratae, polyspermae. Semina 
minima, 1*5 mm, longa, pyriformia, compressa, laevia, atra. 
oe AUSTRO-ORIENT. Inter Kumam et Slinau, H. Winkler, 
I. Huberti is most nearly allied to L. Blumei, Zoll. & Mor., from 
Java, a much smaller flaccid species, with shortly petioled leaves 
and pilose seeds nearly twice as large. 
553. Impatiens orthosepala, Hk. f. [Geraniaceae - Balsamineae] : 
affinis I. Huberiti, Hk. f., sed vexilli magnitudine et sepalorum 
forma valde diversa. 
erba erecta, gracilis, glaberrima,’ parviflora, caule 
Pp: : ; c 
rigido, ramis ramulisque erectis. Folia 4—5 em. lo a, opposita et 
