466 xxxn. GERANIACEJE. ( Balsamineae 7 ,Hook. f.) [7 



A in., elliproid, beaked, glabrous. Seeds suborbicular. pustular, and shortly 1 

 The glands of the leaf-base and petiole are sometimes spirally involute. 



78. I. elong-ata, Am. in 7/W,-. C<>m)>. fiot. Mnci.\. 324; tall, stout, 

 glabrous, simple or branched, leaves stout-petioled elliptic acuminate 

 serrate thick, peduncles far exceeding the leaves very stout, racemes lax, 

 pedicels horizontal, sepals rather large ovate, standard small, lateral lobes 

 of wings small, terminal large, lip small, spur long very slender. Ti-. 



. (\1 ; //./. it- T. in J<>nrn Linn. ISoc. iv. 150. 



Adam's Peak in CEYLON, alt, 3-4000 ft. 



Apparently about 3 It. high; stem woody below, straight or flexunus and scarred 

 above. Leaves 2-3 in. ; Miratares gUmd-tipped. /Wunek very lax ; raceme 4-1 in., 



stout; bracts ovate, acuminate, persistent: pedicels 1-1 in., horizontal, thickened up- 

 wards. J-'/oirtT I in. long, red; sepals acuminate. the small dorsally spurred Bf 

 about equalling the lateral lobes of the \vinux : terminal lobe oblique ; spur 1J in., tip 

 thickened. (Japonic ^ in., ellipsoid, beaked, glabrous. 



79. I. cornigrera, .!/. in Comp. P>t. M<I<I. \. :>,2:'> ; quite glabrous, 

 stem simple rather stout, lravr< rarely opposite) petiol L ><l elliptic-lanceolate 

 acute or a<niminat crenat, peduncles subterminal slender erect, r;" 

 short lax, pi-diivis capillary, sepals small ovate, standard oblong acuminate, 

 lateral WlDg-lobefl minute, terminal suhquadrati' with a broad claw, spur 

 long or short rather stout eircinate at the tip. Tkwu.iics Enuui. u'7 ; 

 //./. <( T. in Jon,-, i. Linn. Soc, iv. l^o. 



Warmer ]>arts of Tr.vi.ox, in damp w< 



A/- in ('. '_' 1 in , stout i t r, ofton naked below and very lea r y 



:y variable. ;', ; in., sonietinies variegated \\ith white alons; the iniil- 

 rib, rarelv se:rate, ereiiat'ircs eiliate; prtiol.- J--1 in. 



than the leaves; raceme 1 '_' in. ; braris small, ovate, acute; pedicels 1 in., 

 horizontal. / 7 //,/* 1 in. l>:iu', yellow, vari<-;:ated with irreen or pale ro^e ; standard 

 concave, orbicular when spread out ; terminal lobe of win^.s with concave sidi-s and 

 broad oblique notched apex: spur v.-ry variabl--. -onu tiims inflated below. ' 

 .'. in., ellipsoid, turbid, beaked, i;!;. -/x fe\v, orbicular, compressed, shining. 



The shining smooth compiv- ,'dy this to /. A7. inii, &c. 



<so. I. Arnottii, 7V/ '//'/ < En>ini. (17; quite glabrous, stem simple 

 rather lender, leaves ]n-ti<iliMl elli])tic-lance(date acuminate crenulate 

 Bparsely hairy above, pednnclefl strict subterminal, flowers few and shortly 

 r.icemed or subumbelled sepals small cordate, standard small, lateral 

 wing-lobes small, terminal large clawed semicircular, lip small, spur slender 

 incurved. 



Province of TKYLOX, nit. 1-3000 ft., rare, Tliwaitr*. 



Very similar t<> /. c migera, but nu re slender, racemes shorter or flowers sometimes 

 uiubelied, red-purple, tinned yellow in the centre, and with very diiVerently shajn d ter- 

 minal wing lobes which are notched at the apex on one side. The base of the stem in 

 this and iis allies seems to form a perennial tuber. 



81. I. phoenicea, r,l<l. in J/Wr. Jnurv. iii. 175: Ic. PI. Jml.Or. 

 p. 30, 1. 148; suffruticose, erect, glabrous, leaves petioled lanceolate, narrowed 

 at both ends serrate, peduncles axillary as long as the leaves racemose, bracts 

 cordate, raceme few-flow eced, sepals ovate, standard broad ovate, wings 

 small, lateral lobe cordate overlapping the much larger oblong terminal 

 one, lip with spur trumpet-shaped incurved. 



Pulney hills in the SOUTHERN CARXATIC, alt. 6-7000 ft., Bedflome. 

 Apparently a slender sparingly branched herb, quite glabrous. Leaven 3-4 in., mem- 

 branous, serratures with rather long cilia ; petiole -1 in., naked. Peduncles axillary, - 



