Impatiens.] xxxn. GERANIACE.E. ( Balsamineae, Hook, f.) 457 



flexuous branched, leaves towards the ends of the branches petioled elliptic 

 acuminate serrulate, pedicels slender, sepals large as long as the wings, 

 standard orbicular winged at the back, wings short 2-lobed to the middle, 

 spur trumpet-shaped villous ending in a long stout incurved spur. H. f. & T. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 133. I. eriantha, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 

 1859, i. 270. 



Western NILGHIRIS, at Sisparah, alt. 5-7000 ft., in shady places. 



Suff'ruticose, 1-2 ft., stem terete, somewhat woody; branches spreading, nodose. 

 Leaves 1^-3 in., membranous, covered with soft scattered hairs on both surfaces, teeth 

 small glandular, nerves faint ; petiole -2 in., hairy. Pedicels f-14 in., hairy. Flowers 

 (white and red, Beddome) about | in. long; sepals very large, acuminate; wings and 

 standard very small ; spur hirsute. Ovary hairy. Capsule hairy. Seeds glabrous, 

 (Wight.) 



49. I. dasysperma, Wight in Madr. Journ. v. 7. t. 2 ; Ic. t. 742 ; 



herbaceous, flaccid, erect, branched, leaves petioled elliptic or ovate 

 acuminate crenate, petiole often glandular, pedicel usually solitary 

 slender, flowers rather small, sepals minute, standard obcordate, wings 

 spreading deeply 2-lobed, lip boat-shaped, spur very long and slender. 

 H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 134. 



MALABAR, in woods and plains, ascending to 3000 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., branches sometimes opposite. Leaves always alternate, 2-3 in., 

 slightly hairy on the upper surface, glabrous beneath ; crenatures large, not setigerous ; 

 petiole 7j-2 in., sometimes with stipitate glands. Pedicels equalling or exceeding the 

 petioles, very slender. Flowers ^-f in. diam.; standard cuspidate ; wings very diver- 

 gent ; lobes subequal, obovate, retuse ; spur incurved, exceeding the flower, very hairy. 

 Capsule ^ in., very obliquely ovoid, turgid, glabrous, pointed at both ends. Seeds sub- 

 globose, hairy, numerous. 



50. Z. flaccida, Arn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. \. 322 ; slender, erect 

 sparingly branched, glabrous, leaves petioled ovate or lanceolate crenate, 

 sepals ovate, standard broad 2-lobed, spurred behind, wings broad 2-lobed, 

 lip boat-shaped, spur long slender, capsule glabrous, seeds globose 

 tubercled. Thwaites Enum. 65 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5276, and I. latifolia, 

 t. 5625. I. bipartita, Arn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 322 1 I. floribunda, 

 Wight in Madr. Journ. v. 7. I. bifida, Thunb. Prodr. PI Cap. 41. I. lati- 

 folia, Moon Cat. 18. 



Mountains of MALABAR; forests of the Sivagherry hills, alt. 4000 ft., Wight; 

 CEYLON, abundant to 3000 ft., Thwaites, &c. 



Stem 6-18 in., branched above. Leaves 2-5 in., membranous ; petiole with stalked 

 glands or naked. Pedicels solitary or several. Flowers rose-purple, f-1^ in. diam. ; 

 wings very variable ; spur 1^ in., very slender, sometimes 2-fid to the middle. Capsule 

 4 in., ellipsoid, acuminate, quite glabrous. Seeds numerous, opaque, tuberculate with 

 pale papillae. So similar in most characters to /. latifolia, that it is difficult to separate 

 these species in the Herbaria. I.flaccida is, however, a smaller plant, more slender, 

 with never opposite leaves, and has globose pubescent seeds, very different from those of 

 /. latifolia. I have brought the alternate-leaved plants (/. latifolia, Bot. Mag. t. 5625, 

 /. lipartita, Arn., I. floribunda, Wight, and /. bifida, Thunb.) to this, from /. latifolia, 

 under which I had placed them before, because of their alternate leaves, though some 

 or all may be alternate-leaved specimens of I. latifolia. The specimen of what I sup- 

 pose to be this plant in the Linnean Herbarium has no name or habitat, and Thunberg 

 has founded his /. lifida on it, because of its abnormally bifid spur, supposing it to 

 have been a native of the Cape, where there is nothing at all like it. 



51. I. violaeflora, H. j. ; very slender, erect, glabrous, simple or 

 sparingly branched, leaves petioled very membranous elliptic-lanceolate 



