ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 6.] (1911. 
XXXI.—-ON SOME SPECIES OF IMPATIENS FROM 
E MALAYAN PENINSULA: II. 
(With Plate.) 
J. D. Hooker. 
In the 1909 volume on this tiga (pp. 1-12), I enumerated 
with diagnoses all the Indo-Chinese and Malayan Peninsula species 
of Impatiens then ind to me. “N ine of these were natives of the 
latter territory, in which five hitherto unpublished species have 
more recently been discovere 
Of these last two are so remarkable as to some of their characters 
that I venture to offer them for early A scree ar reserving the 
others in anticipation of fuller discoveries, especially by Mr. Ridley, 
who is on a visit to unexplored regions of the States, In both 
psa the distal lobes of the wings are confluent, a prevalent 
aracter in the Indo-Malayan balsam 
Impatiens peltata, Hk. f., sp. nov. ; o ‘Ridleyi, Hk. f., affinis, caule 
humile basi repente, foliis carnosulis peltatim petiolatis labelloque 
—s calcare breve recto spiniforme instructo differt. 
a glaberrima, 1°5-2 dm. alta, mediocriflora; caule erecto 
basi "oigs repente simplice v. parce ramoso ramis robustis inferne 
longe nudis. Folia 3-5 em. lata, — peltatim _petiolata, 
carnosula, orbicularia, acuminata, integerrima v. minutissime serru- 
lata, basi rotundata, nervis utrinque 4-6 semeattiint, petiolo gracile 
2-3 cm. longo 2-4 mm. a margine inserto; glandulae infrapetio- 
lares 0. Injflorescentia simpliciter pedicellata ; pedicelli solitarii, 
erecti, petiolo breviores v. paullo longiores, basi ebracteati. Flores 
ad 2 cm. expansi, rosei, appendice (labello ?) flavido. Sepala 2, late 
oblique ovata, obtusa, 0°7-1°2 cm. longa, membranacea, costa 
nervisque obscuris. Verillum flabelliforme, 1-1°5 cm, latum, 
muticum, costa gracile. Alae ad 2 cm. longae ; lobi basales oblique 
pyriformes, longe stipitati, distales paullo breviores, in lammam 
orbicularem bifidam connatae; auriculae dorsales 0. Labellum 
amplum, saccatim infundibulare v. cu upulare, inferne gibbose 
incurvum, supra gibbum calcare stricto spn suberecto limbo 
labelli breviore instructum, ore horizontale obtuso. Filamenta 
linearia ; antherae in capitulum decurvum eee: obtusae. 
Senin gracile, fere rectum, acuminatum. 
(20357—6a,) Wt. 118—9, 1125, 7/11, D&S, 
