44 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



A most lovely plant, which I have seen only on the Waranda 

 Ghaut, growing in the spray of waterfalls. Matheran and 

 Mahableshwar (Birdwood). */. scapiflora (G.) having 'wings with 

 three broad segments, and */. rivalis with the same feature, but very 

 variable, H. considers scarcely to differ from this. 



2. I. Kleinii. Small, smooth, leaves opposite, ovate 

 lanceolate, with two large glands near the petiole, flowers pink, 

 solitary or twin, sepals linear, spur long and slender, capsule 

 narrow with round black seeds. 



Variable (H. ). A plant of littl e beauty, and the only specie s besides 

 I. balsamina, which is very common in S. Konkan. 



3. 7. inconspicua. Small, smooth, leaves opposite, ovate 

 lanceolate, flowers minute, white tinged with purple, sepals 

 very long and narrow, wings with a large rounded clawed lobe, 

 and a smaller one, lip small without spur. 



D. Without hab. Mahableshwar, Dr. CooJce. Very variable (#".). 

 */. oppositifolia so closely allied as to be not always distinguishable 

 from this, but it has a short stout incurved spur. Very common in 

 the Konkan (D.). 



4. /. balsamina. Mostly smooth, leaves alternate, lanceolate, 

 rather rough, flowers generally stalked, lip funnel-shaped with 

 slender spur. Tirda, shir da. 



The common balsam, the original of the garden flower of England. 

 " Brought by the Portuguese from India in the sixteenth century, 

 and still blooming everywhere in Italy." Hehn. Very common 

 throughout the Konkans. On rocks close to the sea, where it often 

 grows so abundantly as to colour them ; it is there frequently not more 

 than two or three inches high, with a few flowers crowded together 

 at the top. *I. scabrivscula, allied to this, but much smaller and 

 leaves broader (H.). S. Konkan (D.). 



5. J. pulcherrima. Stout, smooth, nearly two feet high, 

 leaves ovate, pointed with bristly serratures, petioles long, 

 glandular in the upper half, flowers large rose-colour, wings 

 deeply divided, spur long. 



This is a most beautiful plant : Shady jungles in the Wari country 

 (D.) and no other authority (H.). I have found it at Wandri, and one 

 or two other places in the Kutnagherry district. 



6. */. Dalzellii. A large species with yellow flowers, lip 

 saccate with a short spur. 



S. Konkan (D.). Mahableshwar, dying down early in October. Dr. 

 T. Cooke. 



*I. Stocksii very small, leaves round or broad ovate, lip boat- 

 shaped, scarcely spurred, wings 3-lobed. S. Ghauts (D.). *I. Chinensis, 

 a variable and beautiful plant, all smooth, stem angled, leaves 



