442 xxxn. GERANIACE^:. ( Balsaminere, Hook, f.) [Impatient. 



B iv. SUBUMBELLAT^:. Leaves all alternate, very rarely opposite. 

 Peduncles usually fascicled towards the top of the stem or branches, many- 

 flowered. Flowers in interrupted racemes, subumbelled or whorled, often 

 large purplish, small and yellow in /. radiata. (Sp. 107-111.) 



B v. RACEMOSE. Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite. 

 usually fascicled towards the top of the stem or branches. Flowers often 

 small, in uninterrupted racemes, usually yellow. (Sp. 112-122.) 



A. Capsule short, trapezoid or ellipsoid. 



A L SCAPIGER.E. 

 * Spur shorter tlion 1 IK- flower or 0. JJ7w</x 3-Iobed, except in I. orchioides. 



1. I. Beddomei, Ilook.f. ; quite glabrous, leaves orbicular or reniform- 

 cordate, bracts obtuse or subacute, standard short broader than l"ii_% 

 wine-lobes 3 subequal retuse, spur irlcurve^l clavate obtuse. I. srapitlora, 

 Jl r . <( A. Prodr. 137 /// part; HV/f ///. t. !><;7 : //./. ,< T. in Journ. Lin,,. 

 Soc. iv. 118 ; /><//:. <( d't'frf. J'x>iiii>. /'/'//. 4:5. nnt ofHeyne, 



Mountains of MALAIUK; lu-ar Podabet, Coonnoor, and elsewhere in the Xilghiris, 

 Hi;/ lit. i 



A font high or less. Lcarc.s 14 in. diam., fleshy, <|nite entire or obscurely 



scrratr ; ncrvi-s thtli.-llati-. Uoceme* \ ! in. ; ln-ads I.Mtadly ovate; pt-diccls slender. 

 /V"//y/-x \ in. diani. ; s'-pals ln-nadly and oMiijiudy nvat,- ; win^s with three subeijual 

 short truncate retuse lobes; spur rather shorter than the (lower. (Jdjixiil .', in., elliptic. 

 X nl- niiniite. granulate. Uein.^ ol.li^ej to find a new nani" Cor this beaiitii'ul plant, T 

 have >elected that oi' Col. IJ.-ddouie, who has made- the J 'eiiinsidar species hi> 

 study. 



2. I. modesta, Wi-ihf /// ^f<l<^l. J'curn. v. 13; Ic. t. 968; leaves ovate- 

 cordate acute crrnati'-srrratii sparsi-ly hairy above, bracts with tl)icki'iu'(l 

 tips, standard short l>r>H<k-r than lon.i:, win-s with :', subt-ijual obtuse lobes, 

 spur recurved short obtuse. I. tennis, AV/A/. /// M<i,l,\ Journ. ser. L', iv. G ( .), 

 t. 7, f. 12; Ic. PI. I ml. Or.}}. 31. 



Mountains of M \I.\I-.AK; Nilghiri, and Sivagherry hills, Wit/hf. Ananiallay hills, 

 alt. f>-7000 ft., Bcddome. 



Afoot higher li-->. I.mrrs 1-5 in. ; basal lobes rounded, with a rounder] sinus on 

 each side of the petiole. XI-U/H' verv sleiider: raceme 1 'Jin : jieilicels capillary; 

 bracts much smaller and uari'o\ver than in lll<l nm-i. /-'luii-i-,'* \ in. diani., pink : 

 sepals small. < 'djixiilc ,1 -\ in., elliptic, acute at both ends. Seed* minute. (lf7//Y/.s- 

 pubescent on the surface, Bcddome.} 



3. I. Stocksii, //. / <( T. in Journ. LI mi. Soc. iv. 119; very small, 

 quite glabrous, leaves orbicular oblong or broad-ovate obtuse crcnate base 

 acute or rounded, bracts acute, standard orbicular, lip boat-shaped spur 

 less. Jhilz. <( (,'tlm. Jtnnib. Flor. 42. 



Mountains of the CONCAN, Law, Stocks. 



I\lnch the smallest of the Scapigerous section, 1-4 in. Leave* i-f in. diam., tip 

 obtuse or rounded, nerves flabellate ; petiole as long or shorter than the blade; pedicels 

 thick for the size of the plant; bracts small, ovate. l-lmcers few, 3-6. Sepals broadly 

 ovate, obtuse; standard as broad as long, not very concave, obtuse, rather rhomboid; 

 wings with three obtuse lobee, the lower rather the longest. Capsule \ in., elliptic, 

 turgid, acute. Seeds minute, linear-oblong. 



4. I. crenata, Bedd. in M<nlr. Journ. ser. 2, iv. 69. t. 7, f. 10 ; Ic. PI. 

 Ind. Or. p. 31 ; leaves orbicular-reniform or cordate crenate, scape very 



