Impaticns.\ xxxn. GERANIACEJE. ( Balsamineye, Hook, f.) 449 



linear-lanceolate, standard orbicular cuspidate, wings with very broadly 

 obovate subsessile terminal and small lateral lobes, lip boat-shaped 

 spurless. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 43. 



Bababoodan bills in MALABAR, Law. 



Annual, 8-10 in. Stem rather stout, glabrous. Leaves f-1 in., smaller upwards, 

 acute, glabrous and pale beneath, the upper often cordate at the base. Pedicels about 

 equalling the leaves, sharply deflexed in Iruit. Flowers f in. diam. across the wings. 

 Capsule ^ in., ellipsoid, acute at b >th ends. Seeds few, unripe, apparently as in /. 

 .K7ez/m. Very distinct from any of the preceding specimens of this section in the form 

 of the wings. 



22. X. Dalzellii, H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 123 ; erect, spar- 

 ingly branched, quite glabrous, robust, leaves subsessile lower elliptic- 

 lanceolate, upper ovate or oblong-lanceolate from a broad or cordate base 

 spinulose-serrulate, stipules 0, sepals linear-lanceolate, standard sub- 

 orbicular hooded winged at the back, terminal wing-lobe clawed, lip boat- 

 shape^ with a very short spur. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Jfl. 43. 



Mountains of the CONCAN, Dalzell. 



Stem stout, 10-18 in. high. Leaves 3-5 in., sometimes \\ in. broad, acuminate, 

 basal serratures often with long cilia. Pedicels solitary or fascicled on a very short 

 common peduncle, quite glabrous, shorter than the leaves, apparently not deflexed in 

 fruit. Flowers about 4 i Q across, yellow (structure not well made out). Capsules 

 nearly 4 in., ellipsoid. Seeds few, very large, broadly oblong, black, shining. A very 

 distinct species, which differs from all of this section in the often fascicled peduncles and 

 very large seeds. 



23. I. tomentosa, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4751 ; more or less tomentose, 

 leaves nearly uniform very shortly petioled elliptic- or oblong-ovate acute 

 or obtuse serrulate hispid above glabrous or tomentose on the nerves 

 beneath, sepals linear-lanceolate, standard oblong, wings with a broad 

 sessile terminal and small lateral lobe, lip saccate. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Flor. 43 ; Wight Ic. t. 749 ; H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 121 (excl. syn. 

 of ramosissima) ; W. & A. Prodr. 139. I. rufescens, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 

 4747 ; W. &. A. Prodr. 138 ; Wight Ic. t. 969. 



Mountains of MALABAR and TRAVANCOR, alt. 3-7000 ft., common in swamps. 



Stem 4-8 in., usually simple, erect, more or less clothed with crisped rufescent hairs 

 above, which also appear on the pedicels and often on the nerves of the leaf beneath. 

 Leaves 4~1 i n -, short, uniform, obtuse or acute, more or less scabrid or tomentose above; 

 nerves beneath few. Pedicels always solitary, longer or shorter than the leaf, deflexed 

 in fruit. Flowers very variable in size, longest diameter (g~4 i n O through the lip be- 

 cause of its being so saccate, more or less pubescent ; wings short, terminal lobe 

 rounded; lip obtusely conical. Capsule and seeds as in I. oppositifolia, &c. Wight 

 figures a short apical spur in /. rufescens, but I do not find it in any of the specimens, 

 and I do not think that tomentosa and it are separable as permanent varieties. On the 

 other hand, Wight's figure of/, rufescens differs so much from that of his /. tomentosa, 

 that it seems best to rank these provisionally as varieties. 



VAR. 1. tomentosa; flower 4 in. long from tip of lip to that of standard, wings with an 

 oblong lateral lobe incumbent on a large terminal one, lip saccate with a short hooked 

 spur. Wight I.e. 



VAR. 2. rufescens ; flowers twice as long as in var. 1, lip shortly saccate spurless. 

 Wight I.e. 



24. I. concinna, If. f. ; small, glabrous, branches opposite, leaves 

 uniform opposite subsessile ovate or ovate-cordate acute sharply serrate, 

 nerves strong beneath, sepals dimidiate-lanceolate as long as the lip, 

 standard orbicular spurred, wings 2-lobed, the terminal clawed dimidiate- 



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