446 xxxn. GERAXIACE^E. ( Balsaminece, Hook, f.) [Impatient, 



orbicular, wings with lonsr claws broadly obovate almost entire, spur 

 slender, capsule narrow. Wif/ht Ic. t. 884 ; II. f. A T. in Jimrn. Linn. S->c. 

 iv. 122 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 43. I. tenella, Wall. Cat. 474<; K Balsa- 

 mina minor, DC. Prodr. i. 686.ti/ieede Jl<.,rt. Ml. ix. t. 50, 51. 



.Mountains of the WESTERN PK.M.N-I I.A, from the Concan southwards, common in the 

 rains. 



A slender herb, rarely 1 ft. high; branches opposite, spreading. Leaves 1-2! in., 

 very variable, glabrous or pilose above, glaucous beneath. rarely sessile, u-ually nar- 

 rowed into a slender petiole. Pidk-tls slender, solitary or twin, rellexed in fruit. 

 Flowers ^ in. diam., violet-purple ; spur hardly exceeding the flower or longer, more or 

 -sending. Capsule % in., ellipsoid-lanceolate. Xd< lew, subglobose, black, 

 .shining. The small Hower, lung Kpur, entire claweu wings, ami small capsule with tew 

 globose seeds together best distinguish this variable plant. 1 never find the pedicel 

 to have a Hue of pubescence as in /. tenclla and U 



15. X. diversifolia, Wall. Ct. 474i) ; diffuse with ascending brandies, 

 quite glabrous, leaves all opposite faintly serrate lower shortly petioled 

 elliptic or oblong obtuse, upper .-e>sile linear-oblong or ligulate base cor- 



Hchtnaitik. !,'>. 



WKSTKKN ri.M.vsri.A, from CANARA to MALABAR, Hcyne, &c. ; Quilon, JJ'V/A/; 

 Bababoodan hills, Law. 



/V( in* very succulent, afoot or more long, rooting at the nodes. / at* ', ."> in., 

 the lower smallest and usually petioled, upper often dilated at the lia>i-, serratures 

 rarely well delineil, all very flaccid when dry: stipules ol-M-ure, glan lular. J':i/>Cilx 

 solitary or twin, with a faint line of pabeflCence, usually longi-r than the leaf, deflexed 

 in fruit. Flowers f in. diam. ; perianth rosy, rotatt-; spur a-e.-mling. sometimes 

 thick, inflated, eiiualling or i-X'-.'cding the flower. (V'/.x//// .', in., ellipsoid, turgid. 

 tieeds globose, dark brown, smooth, shining. Copious specimens in Wight's Herbarium 

 prove this to be a verv variable plant, sometimes of considerable si/e, and not the small 

 speeies it was as>nmed to be in the Linnean .Journal. Some specimen-, probably 

 gathered in marshy places, have very thick succulent i-teins and large lea\e>, flaccid 

 when dry, and others are very slender with leaves not J in. in breadth. 



1C. I. ligulata, Had. /// M<xlr. Journ. ser. 2, iv. (.57, t. 7, f. G ; Ic. /'/. 

 1ml. Or. ]). 30, t. 14!); brain-lied, erect, glabrous, leaves uniform sul.sosile 

 linear-ligulate mucn.nate bast- cordate remotely serrate hisjiid above, .stipules 

 setaceous or 0, pedicels with a pubescent line, sepals linear-lanceolate, 

 standard small, lateral wing-lobes broad almost hatchet-shaped, terminal 

 very slender descending into the spur, spur as long as the flower stout 

 incurved. 



Mountains of TRAVANCOR and MALABAR, alt. 1-2500 ft , Beddome. 



Stem 1-2 ft. ; branches slender, spreading. Leaves 3-4 in., horizontal, very uniform 

 in all the specimens, though probably the species occurs with broad and petioled lower 

 leaves. P1ictlis 1 or more, very slender, about half the length of the leaves. 7' 

 about 1 in., pink or white ; standard with a dorsal pubescent line ; spur undulate Cup- 

 aide ellipsoid, swollen in the centre. Seeds about 12, glabrous, shining. When dry it 

 is difficult, except by the spur, to distinguish this from narrow-leaved states of /. in., 

 roits/itctta, tenella, and ppporitifolia ; and, except from the breadth of the spur, from 

 /. diversifolia, it being difficult to make out the curious structure of the 2 wing-lobes 

 (that descend into the spur), except on fresh specimens. According to Beddome's 

 figure it is the terminal lobes that are reduced to narrow ligulre and descend into the 

 spur : but as far as I can make out from dried specimens, it is the lateral lobes ; they are 

 filiform, much lunger and more slender than Beddome represents, aud dilated at the apex. 



