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THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING. 
IMPATIENS. To the species described on pp. 
179-80, Vol. II., the following should now be added. 
They require stove treatment. 
Impatiens—continued. 
showy, axillary, solitary or corymbose; claws of the segments 
white, marked blue; sepals and petals broad, the dorsal sepal 
rounded, the lateral lobes oblong; spur red, recurved. Summer. 
I, comorensis (Comoro Islands). 
1 f. bright carmine, large, with 
a white, bifid spur. J. elliptic-lanceolate, acute, crenate. Comoro 
Islands, 1887. A pretty plant, of vigorous growth. 
I. cuspidata (cuspidate). fl. rosy, solitary in the axils of the 
leaves, having a long, filiform spur. /. lanceolate, acuminate, 
serrated. Stems glaucous. Birma, 1884. 
I. Hawkeri (Lieut. Hawker'’s), 
fl. brownish-red, large, ver 
FIG, 29. PORTION OF FLOWERING BRANCH OF IMPATIENS HAWKERI, 
1. glabrous, shortly petiolate, 44in. long, 2in. broad, opposite or 
ternate, very acutely serrated, ovate-elliptic, acuminate. Sunda 
| Islands, 1886. A branched herb, See Fig. 29, for which we are 
indebted to Mr. Wm. Bull. (1. H. ser. vy. 2.) 
| I, Sultani Episcopi (Bishop Hannington’s). fl. rich purple- 
| carmine, shot with a brilliant rosy hue. Zanzibar, 1886. A 
| perpetual-flowering variety. 
