Impatiens.] xxxu. GERANIACE^:. ( Balsamineae, Hook, f.) 447 



** Spur shorter than the flower or 0. 



] 7. I. tenella, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4746 A ; small, slender, erect, 

 glabrous, leaves all opposite sessile or shortly petioled ligulate oblong or 

 lanceolate remotely serrate, stipules obscure or 0, pedicels with a line of 

 pubescence, sepals linear acuminate, standard short, terminal lobe of wing 

 clawed elongate lateral small, spur shorter than the flower, capsule clavate 

 pointed few-seeded. W. & A. Prodr. 140 ; H./.& T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 iv. 123. ?I. rosmarinifolia, Retz ; Wight Ic. t. 750. I. tehuicula, SteucL 

 Norn. ed. 2, i. 804. 



Mountains of MALABAR, Heyne; and the CONCAN, Jacquemont. 



Stem 4-10 in., simple or sparingly branched. Leaves 1-4 in., the upper or all nar- 

 row, sessile with a subeordate base, the lower (rarely all) usually narrow lanceolate and 

 petioled. Pedicels 1-3, solitary or fascicled, capillary, erect horizontal or deflexed in fruit. 

 f towers about ^ in., pink? Capsule glabrous, ^ in., straight, long- beaked. /Seeds few, orbi- 

 cular, compressed, shining, black. A very obscure plant, probably a variety of/. Kleinii, 

 intermediate between it and /. inconspicua. There is a specimen in Bottler's Herbarium, 

 marked /. lonyiflora, Heyne, from Bababud. Wight's /. rosmarinifolia ? has a very 

 short spur. 



VAR. bracJiycarpa ; spur very slender as long as the flower, capsule shorter \ in. 

 ellipsoid acute at both ends. Herb. Wight. Cochin, Johnstons, Mysore, Lobb. Leaves 

 4 in. long, ligulate from a cordate sessile base in Cochin specimens. 



18. I. inconspicua, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4741 ; flaccid, glabrous, much 

 branched from the base, leaves serrate lower ovate or oblong and petioled 

 upper linear sessile or all ovate or all linear, stipules setaceous or 0, pedi- 

 cels very slender shorter than the leaves with a line of pubescence, sepals 

 linear-subulate, wings with a broadly rhomboid obovate clawed terminal 

 lobe and small lateral lobe, lip saccate acuminate not spurred. W. & A. 

 Prodr. 139 ; Wight Ic. t. 970 ; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 43. I. pusilla, Heyne 

 in Wall. Cat. 4745 ; H. /. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 122. I. filiformis, 

 W. & A. Prodr. 140. I. mysorensis, Roth in Wall. Cat. 4743 in part. I. Per- 

 rotettii, Turcz in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1863, i. 594. 



Mountains of the Western Peninsula, from the CONCAN to MALABAR ; common at 

 3-8000 ft. 



Stems 4-12 in., robust or slender, erect. Leaves \ -4 in., upper always narrowed and 

 most remotely serrate, often very slender, glabrous or pubescent above, pale or glaucous 

 beneath. Pedicels always with one line of pubescence, solitary or geminate, shorter 

 than the leaf, deflexed in fruit. Sepals very long and narrow ; wings with a large 

 rounded almost obovate clawed terminal lobe, and small linear lateral one. Capsule 

 ^ in., turgid in the middle, acute at both ends. /Seeds few, almost globose, but a little 

 compressed, black shining. Of this very variable plant there appear to be two extreme 

 and totally distinct forms, but the Wallichian specimens, which are all under-sized, are 

 so bad, that I cannot satisfactorily determine to which of them any of the synonyms 

 quoted above should apply. One of these two forms is usually shorter, and has all the 

 leaves 4~| in-, petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, and sharply serrate ; it is the /. in- 

 conspicua of Wight's Icones, t. 970, /. tenella of Heyne, according to a specimen so 

 named in Rottler's Herbarium, but certainly not Rottler's tenella. The other extreme 

 form is much larger, with leaves 14~2 in., narrow-ligulate, remotely serrate, often 

 rounded or subeordate at the base; this is the I. filiformis of Wight's Herbarium, but 

 differs from the description in Wight and Arnott in the pedicels not being confined to the 

 uppermost leaves. /. mysorensis,Wa\\. Cat. 4743 B, is a very small state of inconspicua 

 and not the true plant. /. ramosinsima, Dalz., referred in the Journ. Linn. Soc. to /. 

 tomentosa, Dalz., is another form, with a minute rudimentary spur. Between the ex- 

 treme forms there are innumerable connecting links ; and I retain the name inconspicua, 

 as the most applicable, the flowers being amongst the smallest of the genus. Beddome 

 adopts the synonymy of the Prodroinus for /. inconspicua, and says that he does not 



