444 xxxn. GERANIACEJ3. ( Balsamineae, Hook, f.) [Impaticns. 



Mountains of MALABAR, Heyne ; Bababud, Herb. JRottler. 



A specimen of this plant in JRotder's Herbarium, labelled by himself " /. scapiflora, 

 Heyne," may, I assume, be regarded as authentic for the plant discovered by the 

 author of the species. It is certainly not the plant which bears this name in the 

 Linnean Journal (see J. Beddomei), which has a short spur and 2-partite wings : it en- 

 tirely resembles round-leaved forms of /. acaulis, except in the 2-partite whip*. The 

 leaves are evidently fleshy, obscurely eremite, with radiating nerves; the lr<i<-fti thick, 

 and scape and pedicels stout. Flowers 1 in. diam. ; segments of wings recurved-l'alcute 

 linear, rather broad, tips rounded. 



8. I. rivalis, Wi'jht in Madr. Journ. v. 13, t. 8 ; /<. t. 751 ; leaves 

 ovate-cordate \vitli an acute sinus or a rounded base or elliptic and acute at 

 both ends crenate-serrate usually hairy above, standard broader than long 

 vaulted, wings 3-partite, .spur very long. 11. f. & T. in Juarn. Linn, tivc. 

 iv. 119., 



Mountains of the COXCAN, OANAKA, MALAHAK, and THAVAXCOR, alt. 5-8000 ft. 

 Very variable in stature, 6-1 ti in. high. Li-anx extremely variable- in form and 

 pubescence, feather-nerved, never orbiculEr-renifijnn with a broad sinus as in / 



jtttfd and Denisonii, Mxccpt by tin- wings 1 do nut see how some specimens an 

 distinguished from 1. m-uuli*, but Hcddome savs thev " never could be confounded cx- 

 ce]it in dried examples;" lie reduces his vernu-<>*<t to this species (Ic. I'l. Ind. Or. p. .'11). 



VAK. 1. leaves 2-5 in. ovate-oblong hairy acute, base rounded or cordate. ]V'i<jht 

 Ic. t. 757. 



VAR. 2. leaves 4-8 in. elliptic acute at both ends, petiole as long very stout. 

 Concan, Stocks. 



' VAR. 3. leaves 3-4 in. ovate-cordate, wings with a batch of wails on the upper sur- 

 face. I. verrucosa, Btdd. in Mat/r. Journ. iv. <;<., t. 7, f. 'J. 



9. I. Denisonii, Jinld. Ic. PI. I ml. Or. p. 30, t. 151 ; leaves ovate-cordate 

 obtuse or acute crenate pilose above ba>e di/eply -2 -lobcd sinus broad, 

 scape and pedicels very long and slender, .standard broadly ovate vaulted, 

 wings 3-partite bearded on the inner face, lateral segment with a filiform 

 appendage enclosed in the long recurved spur. 



Nimmui Mis. ; abundant in thr Si.sparah ghat, alt. 4-5000 ft., Brddome. 



Ajiparently very near to /. rirnUx, diJlering in the deeply L>-lo!,ed liase of the, leaf, 

 smaller flowers, (^ in. diam.) with much narrower and longer segments to the wings, 

 and in the curious filiform appendages of the latter that descenu inio the spur as in /. 

 rue, mtixti, and which are no doubt concerned in the process of fertilization. 1 suspect 

 that Herb. Wight. Kew Distrib. 310 is referable to this, not to /. ucaulia. 



A ii. OPPOSITIFOLI.E. 



* fywr as tony <t* the fl<>tu< r or longer. 



10. I. chinensis, Linn.; glabrous, stem angled, leaves all opposite 

 subsessile linear-oblong or obovate, stipules setaceous, sepals linear, 

 standard orbicular, wings semi-obovate entire base anricled, t>pur very 

 slender incurved. Lalz. <( (iiU. J><,m!>. If I. 4-2 ; //./. & T. in Journ. Linn, 

 tioc. iv. 119. I. fasciculata, Laink. Diet. i. 359; Wight Ic. t. 748; W. & A. 

 rr<lr. 138; Hook. Jjot. May. t. 4631. I. heterophylla, Wail, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 /. Carry, ii 458 ; Cut. 4748. I. set;icca, CM. in Hook. E.,:ot. /-7o/-. t. 137. 

 Balsamiua fasciculata and B. chinensis, DC. Prodr. i. 686. Rheede 11 wt. 

 Mai ix. t. 47. 



I-HOTAN, Griffith; mountains of the WESTERN PENINSULA, from the Concan to Tra- 

 vancor, alt. 5-8000 ft; KIIASIA MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft. ; BIKMA, WaUich ; I'EXA.<SKKIM, 

 Hdj'er ; MALACCA, Griffith. DmruiB. China. 



A very variable and beautiful plant. Stem 4-1 C in., erect from a rooting prostrate 



