Impatiens.} xxxn. GERANIACE^:. ( Balsamineae, Hook, f.) 453 



hidden in the spur. The wings are probably very variable : the drawing in Beddome's 

 Icones does not resemble that in the Madr. Journal (and neither are like Wight's 

 figure) ; there is a short subulate process on their inner margin, close above the spur, 

 which may descend into it. 



34. I. viscosa, Bedd. in Madr. Journ. N.s. .iv. 68, t. 7, f, 7 ; stem petioles 

 and peduncles viscidly pubescent, leaves opposite long-petioled elliptic or 

 ovate obtuse or acute subcrenate, peduncles exceeding the leaves 6-12- 

 flowered, flowers minute umbelled, standard suborbicular, wings 2-lobed 

 terminal lobe the largest clawed, lip conical, spur curved gibbous longer 

 than the flower, seeds echinate. 



Anamallay hills in MALABAR, alt. 3500 ft., Beddome. 



Probably a variety of /. Gougkii, from which it differs in the stem and branches and 

 sometimes the leaves being viscid, the usually larger size, faint crenatures of the leaves, 

 longer spur, and (according to Beddome) the echinate ripe seeds which are matted with 

 hair when young. The wings are, as usual, very variable, sometimes exactly as in 

 Wight's figure of Goughii, and there is, as in that plant, a subulate process on their 

 inner margin close to the base, which is hidden in the lip. 



35. 1. parvifolia, Bedd. in Madr. Journ. N.S. iv. 66, t. 7, f. 1; Ic. PI. Ind. 



Or. 29, t. 142 ; glabrous, small, stem very slender branched, leaves alternate 

 and opposite very small ovate coarsely crenate-serrate, peduncles axillary 

 much longer than the leaves, flowers 3-5 very small racemose, standard subor- 

 bicular, wings with a large triangular terminal lobe, lip boat-shaped, spur 

 short blunt, seeds villous. 



MALABAR ; on rocks at the top of the Akka Mts., alt. 8-8600 ft., Beddome. 



Much the smallest known species. Stem 3-6 in., apparently prostrate. Leaves -^ in., 

 opposite and alternate, sessile or petioled, the lower usually opposite and upper alter- 

 nate. Peduncles very stout and long for the size of the plant, often 1-14 m< > spreading, 

 axillary, solitary ; bracts minute. Flowers ^ in. diam., pale pink with a crimson blotch 

 on the wing; sepals falcate; standard small, vaulted; wings with a small upper and 

 large terminal lobe ; .lip greenish. Capsule apparently as in /. Gougkii. Description 

 taken chiefly from Beddome. In the Kew specimens the peduncles are almost always 

 eingle- flowered. 



36. I. circaeoides, Wall. Cat. 4772 ; small, glabrous, stem simple, 

 leaves few opposite long-petioled broadly ovate subserrate, peduncle solitary 

 filiform, flower subracemose, sepals orbicular acuminate, standard small, 

 wings large, lip concave, spur very short. H. f. & T. in Jou?*n. *Linn. 

 oc. iv. 130. 



TENASSERIM, at Tavoy, Wallich; PEGU, M'Cklland. 



Stem very slender and quite simple, 4-6 in. Leaves 2-4 pairs, 2 by 1|-14 i n -> gla- 

 brous, with a few scattered hairs on both surfaces, glaucous beneath, acute, serratures 

 subciliate, nerves many slender; petiole very slender; stipules obscure, glandular. 

 Peduncle shorter than the leaf; bracts small, ovate ; pedicels short. Flowers about 

 i in. diam., white ? ; sepals green ; terminal lobe of wing long-clawed, pendulous. 

 Capsule short. The above is an imperfect description, the specimens being very in- 

 different. 



A rv*. UNIFLOILE. 



' * Spur much shorter than the flower or 0, sometimes longer in /. Bal- 

 samina, and /. leptopoda. 



37. I. Balsamina, Linn. ; pubescent or glabrate, leaves petioled nar- 

 row-lanceolate acuminate deeply serrate, petiole glandular, nVnyers rose- 

 coloured, sepals broad-ovate minute, standard orbicular retuse, wings very 

 broad lateral lobe much rounded, terminal sessile very large, lip small 

 couoid, spur short or long and slender incurved, capsule tonientose. W. & 



