Impatiens.] xxxn. GERANIACE^E. ( Balsaminese, Hook, f.) 451 



standard 2-lobed spurred at the back, wings 2-lobed, lip boat-shaped, spur 

 slender incurved. W. & A. Prodr. 136 ; Wight Ic. t. 970, bis; H.f. & T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 125. Balsamina Leschenaultii, DC. Prodr. i. 686. 



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



A very near ally of /. latifolia, but I think distinct, especially in the excessively 

 branched and leafy habit, much smaller, crowded, usually recurved leaves, and smaller 

 flowers and capsules. De Candolle is, no doubt, wrong in assigning Ceylon as a 

 habitat, except, indeed, he took /. latifolia for this. Lesehenault, its discoverer, col- 

 lected in the Peninsula. 



28. I. lucida, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4738 ; nearly glabrous, flaccid, 

 stem very slender, leaves chiefly opposite and whorled petioled ovate or 

 ovate -lanceolate acuminate crenate, peduncles very slender, flowers small, 

 sepals ovate acuminate, standard suborbicular beaked entire, wings 2-lobed, 

 lip boat-shaped with a long incurved slender spur. 1. latifolia, W. & A. 

 Prodr. 138. 



Mountains of the WESTERN PENINSULA, from the CONCAN to MALABAR. 



Numerous specimens of this from Law, Stocks, Wight and others, show it to be a 

 very different species from /. latifolia, being much smaller in all its parts, -4-8 in. 

 high, sparingly branched, very slender and flaccid ; with a small flower g in. diam., and 

 a small entire orbicular standard. The crenatures of the leaf, which is sparsely hairy 

 above, are rarely setigerous. A specimen in Bottler's Herbarium bears the name 

 lucida, Heyne, and station Courtailum, spelled Kuttalam. This may be a form of 

 I.Jiaccida, with the leaves sometimes opposite. 



** Peduncles 2- GO rarely l-flowered. See I. fimbriata and janthina in 

 Avii. 



29. I. radicans, Eentli. in Wall. Cat. 4763 ; pubescent, stem simple 

 erect leafy, leaves opposite subsessile stipulate lanceolate acuminate serrate, 

 peduncles horizontal, flowers 1-4 large, standard galeate, wings small, 

 lip saccate obtuse, spur short hooked. //./. & T. in Journ. Linn. /Soc. 

 iv. 126. 



KHASIA MTS., in marshes, alt. 4-6000 ft., Wallich, Griffith, &c. 



A beautiful species, 10-18 in., more or less crisply hairy on the stem and leaves 

 above, rarely glabrate. Stem square. Leaves 1-3 in., sometimes ovate- or oblong- 

 lanceolate, the serratures often ciliate, pale beneath ; stipules of 2 fascicles of soft gland- 

 tipped setae. Peduncles slender, shorter than the leaves, with as many lanceolate brac- 

 teoles as there are pedicels. Flowers nearly 1 in. across and as deep, purple ; sepals 

 very variable, dimidiate-ovate or lanceolate, straight or falcate ; standard with a dorsal 

 conical obtuse horn or gibbosity ; wings 2-lobed ; lip very obtuse, longer than broad ; spur 

 incurved. Capsule f in., glabrous, ellipsoid, turgid in the middle. Seeds oblong, com- 

 pressed ; testa pale, membranous. 



30. I. trilobata, Coleb. in Hook Exot. Flor. ii. t. 141 ; tall, alternately 

 branched, almost glabrous, leaves opposite and alternate all or the lower 

 only long-petioled lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate crenate -serrate stipulate, 

 peduncles horizontal, flowers 2-5 large, sepals minute subsetaceous, standard 

 obcordate, lip saccate obtuse or conical, spur long or short. Wall. 

 Cat. 4762 A, and 4763 (Pundua) ; H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 126. 



Tropical SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2-4000 ft., and KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft. 



A very variable and. beautiful species, 1-2 ft. Leaves membranous, sparsely hairy 

 above, lower 2-5 in. usually long-petioled elliptic-lanceolate long-acuminate crenate, 

 the upper more often sessile lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, all often ciliate towards the 

 base ; stipules usually of large tufts of soft cilia. Peduncles very slender, shorter than 

 the leaves; bracts minute or 0. Flowers ^ f in. from base of lip to tip of standard, 

 which is horned at the back, bright violet-purple ; wings 2-lubed, but not deeply, notched 



