470 xxxn. GERANIACE2E. ( Balsaminese, Hook, f.) [Imptt- 



A very distinct species in foliage, and at once recognised by the alternate am- 

 plexicaul upper leaves, but the lower leaves, habit, flowers and fruit differ little from 

 /. sulcata and Thomsoni. The stem is 4-angled, peduncles short, llowers fewer aud 

 smaller, and the capsule is hardly clavate, 1-1| in. 



B ii. UNIFLORE. (See also /. discolor, spirifer and serrata under B m., 

 ' which are sometimes 1-nowered). 



92. I. tripetala, Roxb. FL Ind. Ed. Caret/, ii. 453 ; tall, glabrous, rarely 

 pubescent, branched, stout, leaves large membranous long petioled opposite 

 alternate or whorled ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate crenulate, 

 pedicels slender solitary or fascicled, flowers large, sepals subulate falcate, 

 standard obovate spurred at the back, wings small, lip deeply saccate, 

 spur short abrupt incurved. I. multiflora, Wall. Cat. 4742; 11. f. tO T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 1 26. 



Tropical Himalaya, SIKKIM, alt. 2-5000 ft., /. D. II.; BHOTAN, Duphla Hills, 

 Booth; ASSAM, SIUIKT, and KIIASIA Mrs., alt. 0-3000 ft. 



Annual. Stem A ut, succulent, H -2 ft., swollen at the nodes, simple or with op- 

 posite branches. Leaves 2-8 in., exclusive of the petiole, which is often f> in., meni- 

 branons, acuminate, glabrous or spar-ly pnh I y nunierous, lower 



crenatures often with bristles. Pedicels 4-1 in., glabrous, bracteate at the base wben 

 fascicled on a short peduncle. Flon; /-.-> n-d or purple, U in. from the base of the lij> to the 

 tip of the standard, glabrous or pub -scent ; st.-ji.-i Is very small for the si/.e of the llower ; 

 .standard galeate ; wings with two suborbieular lobes , lip rounded at the base, suddenly 

 narrowed into a sjmr. ( 'd/i.-oilf .J, ;] in., ellipsoid, ijuite ^iabnui i_v, pyrilbrm, 



testa rou^li opa<ju<'. Specimens of this might be referred to sections 15. i. and 15. in., 

 according as the leaves are opposite or alternate, and the pedicels solitary or collected 

 on a peduncle. 



93. I. puberula, D(\ Pr<lr. i. 684; slender, erect, leafy, pube 

 leaves petioled elliptic-lanceolate crenate acuminate eglaiidular, pedieels 

 subterrninal bracteate slender l-ilo'.vered, llowers pubescent violet, sepals 

 broad, standard orbicular notched dorsally winged, terminal lobe of wings 

 broadly semi-obovate, lip conoidal, spur long slender incurved, capsule 

 slender. Wall. PI. As. liar, ii. s3, t. J!>3; Cat. 47C.7 A ; //../: <( T. <n 

 Jntirn. Linn. .Soc. iv. 141. I. mollis. Wall, hi Jioxb. Fl. Ind. Ed, GV/y-y, 

 ii. 461. I. hispidula, Itcnfh. in Wall. Cat. 4740. 



Temperate regions of the SIKKIM and NIPAI, HIMALAYA, alt. 5-6000 ft. 



Mi'iu 2-3 ft., sparinglv lirandied, pubescent above. Leaves 1-3 in., membranous, 



usually pubescent on both surfaces ; petiole rather short ; stipules 0. Pedicels 1-1 ,|, in., 

 ut, usually confined to tlie uppermost axils ; bracts subulate, basal, or 0. 

 Fioi'-i'i- Hat, 1 ' r -l.j in. from the standard to the wings; sepals broad ovate acuminate; 

 standard almost as large as the two wings, and, like them, of a deep violet colour; wings 

 Of 2 sessile lobes, lateral smaller rounded; lip rather small; spur A in. ('upside 1 in., 

 glabrous. <sV <</.-, immature. In the Linnean Journal I confounded with this under 

 variety /3, a Khasia plant which I now find should be referred to /. bella, leaving this a 

 single-flowered species. The Sikkim specimens are larger leaved and more glabrous than 

 the Nipalese. 



94. I. argnta, II. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 137 ; slender, erect, 

 glabrous or sparsely pubescent, leaves ovate or lanceolate sharply ser- 

 rate, petiole usually glandular, peduncle very short 1-2-flowered, bracts 

 setaceous twisted or 0, flower large, sepals ovate-cordate, standard orbi- 

 cular spurred behind, terminal lobe of wings very long pendulous, lip 

 elongate saccate, spur short stout incurved. 



