Impatiens.~\ xxxn. GERAXiACE-as. ( Balsamineue, Hook, f.) 471 



Shaded woods of the SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 5-7000 ft., and KHASIA Mxs., alt. 3-6000 

 ft. ; BKOTAN, at Duphla, Booth ; BIKMA, at Momyen, J. Anderson. 



Perhaps only a variety of /. spirifer, but a stronger growing plant, often much 

 branched, leaves more strongly toothed, often ciliate at the base, petiole usually glan- 

 dular, bracts, when present, very curiously twisted, lip deeper, and spur not spiral. 

 Capsule 1 in., stout. Seeds orbicular, small, opaque, granulate. 1 have found 4 late- 

 ral sepals on this species ; it was the commonest Darjeeling one in 1848. 



B in. AXILUFLOK^;. 



* Standard usually spurred at the lack. 



95. I. Jurpia, Nam. in Wall. Cat. 4761 ; tall, shrubby, branched, 

 glabrous or pubescent, leaves long-petioled elliptic-lanceolate caudate- 

 acuminate often oblique crenate, peduncles very long 1-3-flowered, flowers 

 large, bracteoles and sepals minute, standard obcordate usually with a long 

 dorsal spur, terminal lobe of wings obovate or oblong, lip very large saccate, 

 spur short stout incurved. H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 140. 



Shaded woods of the temperate and subtropical Himalaya from NIPAL to BHOTAN ; 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft. 



Stem 5-8 ft., stout and woody below ; branches glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 3-1 

 in., very membranous, many-nerved, with scattered hairs above, often red beneath, 

 often ciliate towards the base ; nerves numerous, slender ; petiole usually long and 

 slender, often glandular. Peduncles 2-4 in., slender; bracts subulate; pedicels 4~i i n - 

 blowers nearly 2 in. from the spur to the tip of the standard, white or pale straw- 

 coloured or orange-red ; standard with a spur sometimes \ in. long, at others obsolete ; 

 wings small, lateral lobes rounded, included, terminal exserted, twice as large, notched 

 at the tip or not, with an inflexed auricle on the inner margin ; lip very large and 

 broad, usually rounded at the base ; spur stout, obtuse. Capsule, 1-1 1 in., narrow-linear, 

 clavate, acute, glabrous. Seeds many, small, opaque, suborbicular, tubercled. A 

 splendid species, closely allied in flower to /. spirifer, arguta, and discolor. The 

 peduncles are sometimes 9 in. long, and bear many alternate broad ovate small per- 

 sistent thick bracts and no flowers. Amongst Cathcart's drawings of Darjeeling plants 

 is a white-flowered species, probably a variety of this, with large bracts and a very short 

 spur on the standard. 



96. I. discolor, Wall. Cat. 4767 ; 1 DC. Prodr. i. 687 ; slender, erect, 

 branched, leaves petioled ovate or lanceolate acuminate crenate, peduncles 

 short axillary 1-3-flowered, bracts broad ovate gland-tipped, flowers large, 

 sepals rather large broadly ovate, standard orbicular spurred at the back, 

 terminal lobe of wing large pendulous, lip very large deep conoidal nar- 

 rowed into a short stout involute obtuse spur. H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iv. 137. I. Hoffmeisteri, Klotzsch in Reise Pr. Waldem. Bot. 121, 1. 15 A. 



Temperate NIPAL and SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8000 ft. 



Glabrous, or pubescent on the leaves above. Stem 3-5 ft, decumbent and rooting at 

 the base. Leaves membranous, crenatures coarse, with a bristle in the sinus ; nerves 

 many ; petiole variable, naked. Peduncle and pedicds together 1-2 in., very slender, 

 bracts T ^ in., scattered. Flowers 1^-2 in., violet-blue with a pink-purple veined very 

 large lip ; standard small ; wings as in J. argata and spirifer, which this much re- 

 sembles in foliage and flowers, but differs wholly in the fruit. Capsule f in., slender, 

 clavate and acuminate beyond the middle, the lower portion being seedless. Seeds un- 

 ripe. A very common Darjeeling species. De Candolle describes the flower as yellow, 

 so I suspect that he has had J. urticcefolia (or perhaps 1. flavida] in his eye, with which 

 species this has much in common ; in this the leaves are more uniform, less crowded 

 upwards and less drawn out at the apex ; and the flowers are more uniformly lateral. 



97. X. spirifer, H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 135 ; erect, glabrous, 

 or sparsely pubescent, leaves long-petioled ovate-lanceolate caudate-acu- 



