TABULA 2969. 
IMPATIENS RECURVICORNIS, Mazim. 
BALSAMINACEAE. 
I. recurvicornis, Maxim. in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xi. (1890), p. 88, 
caule gracili, foliis ovato -lanceolatis crenulatis utrinque 6-8-nerviis, 
pedunculis unifloris, sepalis dimidiato-ovatis, antheris acuminatis. 
Herba gracilis, 4-5 dm, alta, parce ramosa, glaberrima, caule parce 
ramoso debili, ramulis gracillimis apices versus foliosis. Folza cm. 
longa, alterna, petiolata, membranacea, ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, 
crenulato-serrata crenis apiculatis, basi acuta eglandulosa, in petiolum 
subalatum 1-2 cm. longum angustata, nervis utringue 6-8. Pedunculi 
bractea ovata, a aristatim acuminata, 3-4 mm. longa, integerrima 
> dimidi 
menta brevia, lata ; plane acuminatae. Ovarium fusiforme, rectum. 
iy 2:5 cm. ee wer i lineares, acuminatae, strictae, oe 
Se ? oblonga, compressa, 3-5 mm 
es dareauee 
Cutwa: Szechuan; near Tsian-pu, Potanin in Herb. Hort. Petrop. 
roma sketch of unopened flowers in a very young state, by Maximo- 
wicz, attached to the sheet of specimens, it would appear that the 
curvature of the spur of the lip is the reverse of the normal in the genus, 
—J.D. Hooker. 
but I find it as represented in the specimens here figured. 
Fig. 1, sepal; 2, standard; 3, wing; 4, lip; 5, stamen; 6, ovary. All en- 
larged. 
