'Impatient.] xxxn. GERANIACE^:. ( Balsaminere, Hook, f.) 443 



slender few-flowered, standard broader than long very concave, spur short 

 obtuse. I. Akka, Beddome, I.e. 69, f. 11. 



MALABAR, in the Anamallay and Akka Mts, alt. 5-8000 ft., Beddome. 



I have not seen this species, which Beddome describes as perhaps not distinct from 

 /. Stocksii; from which, however, it seems to differ in the large flowers, long scapes, 

 short pedicels, shape of (he standard, and presence of a distinct spur, as well as in the 

 habitat. Though originally described as different plants, Beddome subsequently united 

 his /. crenata and Akka, which according to his descriptions differ in the first having 

 hairy nerves on the leaves above, short petioles, and a crenate standard ; both have 

 hairy upper surfaces of the wings and large flowers (how large is not stated), pure white 

 with a blue tuft of hairs in /. crenata. 



5. I. orchioides, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. p. 31, t. 151; leaves ovate- 

 cordate obtuse acuminate very hairy above, bracts ovate, standard ovate, 

 wings with two subulate tails, lip saccate spurless. 



Koondah Mts. in MALABAR, near Avalanche Ghat, Beddome. 



Leaves H-2 in., glabrous beneath, crenatures bristle-pointed; petiole very long. 

 Scape 6-7-fiowered ; pedicels very slender. Floicers ^ in. diam., like those of a 

 Liparis, reddish-brown ; sepals ovate ; standard obtuse, not vaulted ; wings with a 

 dimidiate oblong blade produced into two pendulous tails longer than itself; lip acute. 

 Capsule contracted at both ends. Seeds minute scrobiculate. Description from Bed- 

 dome, who describes the sepals as small, but figures them as remarkably large for the 

 size of the plant. 



** Spur longer than the flower. Wings, %-lobed (except in I. acaulis). 



6. I. acaulis, Arn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 325 ; glabrous, leaves 

 orbicular ovate-cordate or oblong, base acute rounded or cordate (not deeply 

 2-lobed), standard obovate very concave, wings 2-partit^e terminal lobe 

 largest, spar very slender. Thwaites Enum. 68 ; Dah. & Gibs. Bonib. 

 Flor. 42 ; H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 118 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 



. 31. I. scapiflora, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3587 ; W. & A. Prodr. 137, impart. 



bulbosa, Moon Cat. 18. I. gracilis, Bedd. in Madr. Journ. ser, 2, iv. 69, 

 t. 7, f. 13. 



Mountains of the central province of CEYLON ; alt. 3-5000 ft., and of MALABAR and 

 the CONCAN ? ~ 



Very variable in size and robustness, 2-12 in. high. Leaves 1-6 in. ; usually on 

 slender petioles, more or less crenate. Scape stout. Racemes 1-4 in. ; bracts broad; 

 pedicels stout, 1 in. Flowers ^-1 4 in. broad ; sepals broadly ovate ; standard short, broader 

 upwards ; wings variable in the length and breadth of the segments, which are falcate and 

 truncate ; spur very slender, variable in length. Capsule j- in., ellipsoid, acute at both 

 ends. Thwaites suspects that the Ceylon plant cannot be scapiftora, because Wallich de- 

 scribes the spur as several inches long, but in some of our specimens it attains 3 inches. 

 Wight and Arnott, in the Prodromus, apparently confound acaulis with the true /. scapi- 

 flora. There is so much diversity in the foliage of specimens which the 2-partite 

 wing obliges me to refer to this species, that I cannot but repeat that this and tho 

 three following may prove to be forms of one. Some have the orbicular reniform 

 leaves of /. scapiflora, others the ovate-cordate and pilose leaves of /. rivalis (notably 

 Thwaites, No. 2595), others the elliptic leaves of /. rivalis, var. 2, and still others the 

 oblong leaves with rounded sinus of 1 Denisonii. The species of this group cannot be 

 determined from dried specimens. Beddome (Ic. PL Ind. Or. p. 31) states that /. acaulis 

 and rivalis " could never be confounded except in dried specimens." 



7. I. scapiflora, Heyne in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 4fi4 ; leaves 

 orbicular cordate or reniform sinus usually deep and broad above tip 

 rounded obscurely crenate serrate, standard large orbicular rhomboid, wings 

 with 3 broad segments, spur very slender. 



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