440 xxxii. GERANIACE^. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [Cofinaropsis. 



regular, in terminal and axillary panicled cymes. Sepals 5, imbricate, connate 

 at the base. Petals 5, imbricate. Glands', ^tautens 10, filaments united 

 at the base, the alternate shorter. Oca/'// o-angled, 5-celled ; styles o, 

 subulate, stigmas apiculate ; ovules -2 in each cell. Fruit fleshy, 5-lobed. 

 Three species, all from the Malayan archipelago. 



1. C. monophylla, Planch. in Herb. Hook. ; leaves 1-foliolate, leaflets 

 ovate obtusely acuminate shining above glaucous beneath, panicles pube- 

 ruhms of slender spiciform erect branches. 



MALACCA, (Irifiith, Cum ing, Mttf/ngay. 



A small round-headed tree. Leaflet* 2-3 in., quite entire; peliole ^ in., slender. 

 Panide.s 3-5 in. long. /S?pai pubescent. Cbrofla suburceolate ; p<-;al> 

 red, tips subreeurved. Ornrif pilo>e. Fruit obtusely angled, o-lurrowed ; eiidocarp 

 fibrous, sending outwards fibres which ivtirul;\U-ly divide ti p. AlLt(nt> n 



copious; embryo green, radicle terete. (Dcscr. chiefly from lirillith's notes.) 



2. C. Griffith!!, Plinth, in // ///. Honk.; leaves 3-foliolate ovate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate long-acuminate opaque above, panicles short broad 

 toniento.se. Ilonk.j. in 'J'r'tii*. Linn, ood xxiii. 16$ (name only), 



MALACCA, Crijjitli. Mnimjnt/. 



A small i; li:irk Mack. L< at/i t '2\ '\\ in.. pale, pubescent, as 



are their short petioles ; nerves remote , petiole JJ in., that ol tlie leaflets \ in. i 



rrutriiious. Floir, /-x MMially all antlierifennis. ^tnim us usually on the old wood, 

 A in. long, brown purple. Fruit '2 in., yellow. Ktir/ 'J<'um. A*. A/,r. Jii-nf/al, 1S7" ( 

 ii. (39), eonsidi-rs that this should bear the name of C'. <///< rxijolia, because it was tir.-^t 

 desciibed as Jiaun-n (///-. /-i/olin by Miipiel (7-7. y//^/. />V7. >//y</7. 528), a vi^w I .-annot 

 adojit, seeing that Miijuel put it not only in a wrong genus, but in a wrong Natural 

 Order, and that the trivial name dir<-rx(i<>ri is not applicable. Moreover, I doubt C. 

 (ir/Y/it/iii being the same with Miqiiel s plant, which latter has lucid leaves, \\lnreas 

 f C. (iriljitliii are singularly opaque.-- Frmt acid, eaten cooked, pickled or pre- 

 served with sugar. Leaves irritable to the touch. 



8. XIKFATIENS, Linn. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Herbs, rarely shrubby at the base. Lf<ti'>-* o]|tosite or alternate, in sonic 

 whorled, in others all radical, .simple, i-xstipulate, or with sti{)tilar glands 

 at the base of the petiole. Floioera in scape.-, or in axillary or terminal 

 1-2-many-nowered peduncles, irregular, resupinatc. Xi-jm/s :i rarely 5, im- 

 bricate ; 2 anterior when present minute; 2 lateral small, ilat, usually 

 green ; posterior (anterior in flower} large, petaloid, produced into a hollow 

 spur or sac. Petals 3 (or 5) ; anterior (outer in bud) large ; lateral 2-lobed 

 (or 2 connate). titan).<>n* 5, filaments .short, broad ; anthers cohering. />/.>/(). 

 ()rar;i oblong, 5-celled ; stigma sessile, o-toothed ; ovules many, 1-seriate in 

 each cell. Capsule loculicidal ; valws 5, elastically spriiming away from a 

 placentiferous axis. > S ) V W.s smooth or tubercled, glabrous or hairy, ailm- 

 menO; embryo straight. DISTKIB. Mountains of trop, Asia and Africa, rare 

 in temp. Europe, N. America, N. Asia, and 8. Africa; species about !"><>. 



The species of Impatiens are difficult of determination, in tv dried state especially ; 

 and for Beddome's I am chiefly dependent on his published plates. Minute flowers 

 fertilized in the hud occur in some species apart from the others. The following 

 arrangement is that suggested by myself in the Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. iv. 

 p. 106 (Dec. 1859), with the addition of the Peninsula species subsequently described by 

 Beddome, and with the important change consequent on dividing the genus intotuo 

 principal groups, a Himalayan, with slender terete or obovate capsules, and a chiefly 

 Peninsular group, with the capsule short and swollen in the ruiddie. To avoid ver- 

 biage I shall employ the same terms used in that arrangement, of .6ca* for the 2 



