TaBuLA 2906. 
IMPATIENS POLYSCIADIA, Hook. /. 
BALSAMINACEAE. 
I. polysciadia, Hook. /. (sp. nov.) ; inflorescentia pedunculata, multi- 
flora, floribus parvis in racemulos umbelliformes dispositis, bracteis 
verticillatis. 
elata, erecta, glaberrima, pene ee parviflora, caule s 
robusto ssimplice folioso. Folia 5-15 em. lo onga, alterna, sessilia at 
subsessilia, membranacea, ovata vel anette. acuminata, serrata vel 
serrulata, basi rotundata vel co ordata, costa subtus gracile, nervis 
utrinque 8-10 ; glandulae infra-petiolares 0. Pedunculi apicem versus 
caulis plurimi, 4-6 cm. longi, subcorymbosim dispositi, foliis supremis 
multo longiores, graciles, apicem versus 38 -flori. ; pedicella -saepissime 
umbellatim raro racemosim conferti, capillares, 3-5 mm. longi, interdum 
umbellulas secundarias gerentes; bracteae verticillatae, ovatae vel 
ovato-lanceolatae, acuminatae. Flores a cm. ex pansi, rosel (2). 
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infra apicem minute hhericees Alae sessiles, 8-9 mm. longae ; lobus 
basalis rotundatus, margine superiore antice extruso acuto; distalis 
paullo longior, multo angustior, dolabriformis, apice rotundatus ; 
auricula dorsalis angusta. 2 limbus infundibulari-cymbiformis, 
subhorizontale. Filamenta linearia ; antherae connatae, suberectae, 
nian Ovarium declinatum, rectum, acutum, 5-gonum, multi- 
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WEsTERN HimaLayA: Kumaon; specimen raised from seed received 
from the Royal Botanic ante Calcutta, and raised in that of Dahlem, 
and preserved in the Botanical Museum there (see also tab. 2907). 
I know of no near ally of this fine species which is amongst the minute- 
flowered species of the genus, remarkable for its tall, robust habit, for 
the profusion of very small flowers umbellately arranged on the tips 
of the many subcorymbosely disposed peduncles, and for the whorled 
bracts. e pedicels are rarely racemosely arranged on the peduncles, 
and not sstndaaeniy one of the pedicels of the umbel bears a bracteate 
