Impatiens.] xxxn. GERANIA.CE.E. ( Balsamineoe, Hook, f.) 473 



glabrous or sparsely puberulous above, white beneath, teeth with subspiral bristles, 

 nerves slender; petiole |-| in. ; stipnlar glands obsolete or 0. Peduncles 1^ in., appa- 

 rently not stiff ; bracts small, caducous ; pedicels slender. Flower about 1 in. diam. ; 

 sepals acuminate, green; standard very coriaceous or fleshy; wings 1 in. long, claw 

 broad, dilating first into a rounded lateral lobe, which is followed by twice as large a 

 rounded terminal lobe ; a curious incurved and thickend semilunar fold of the inner 

 margin occurs opposite the union of the lobes ; lip large ; spur 1 in. long. Fruit un- 

 known. This fine species may belong to A v. in the short-fruited section. 



** Standard not spurred, but sometimes gibbous at the back. (See also 

 100. tropaeolifolia.) 



101. I. laevig-ata, Watt. Cat. 4753 ; shrubby, erect, glabrous, leaves 

 petioled elliptic- or obovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate serrate, peduncles 

 axillary very short stout, bracts large, nowers racemed and crowded Or' 

 solitary yellow, sepals very large green orbicular, standard transversely 

 oblong not spurred behind, wings short 2-lobed, lip funnel-shaped narrowed 

 into a hooked spur of its own length or shorter. H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iv. 146. 



Shaded woods in the KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft. 



Stem 4-6 ft., woody below, branched; branches nodose, sometimes puberulous. 

 Leaves 4-6 in., membranous, often oblique at the base, serratures with a bristle ; 

 petiole i-1 in., sometimes glandular. Peduncles ^-1 in., usually crowded in the upper 

 axils, stout, 1-4-flowered; bracts broadly ovate-cordate, obtuse, sometimes i in.; pedi- 

 cels short, stout. Flowers 1-1 1 in. long, pale yellow streaked with pink on the wings 

 and lip ; sepals very large indeed, sometimes { in. long, acute, very oblique ; upper. 

 wing-lobes short, oblong, obtuse, lower almost twice as large, oblong, unequally 2-lobed, 

 notched ; lip and spur f-1 in. 



102. I. Cathcartii, Ilook.f. ; erect, shrubby, branched, glabrous, 

 leaves petioled elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate crenate, peduncles 

 axillary long stout, bracts small, nowers laxly racemed large, sepals very 

 large coloured orbicular, standard orbicular gibbous or spurred behind, 

 wings short 2-lobed, lip saccate with a short stout incurved spur. 



Shaded forests in the SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3-5000 ft., /. D. H. 



A large ramous species, nearest allied to I. Icevigata in foliage and habit, but dif- 

 fering in the long very stout peduncled racemes, 3-7 in. long, smaller bracts, larger pink 

 flowers 2-2^ in. l n g> with bright rose-coloured spur and standard; in the red (not 

 green) sepals and more saccate lip. As in /. Jurpia and other species the standard 

 varies in being .spurred or only gibbous at the back. 



103. I. serrata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4771 ; glabrous, erect, simple or 

 sparingly branched, leaves sessile or shortly petioled ovate-lanceolate acu- 

 minate s'harply serrate eglandular, stipules glandular or 0, pedicel very slender 

 forked in the middle ^-flowered, bracts setaceous scattered, sepals large 

 broad, standard oblong clawed, wings clawed narrow, lip oblique conoid, spur 

 about equalling the flower. H. /. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 136. 



Shaded woods in the temperate regions of NIPAL, Wallich ; SIKKIM, alt. 8-1 0,000 ft., 

 and BHOTAN, Griffith. 



Stem slender, 1-3 ft. Leaves membranous, narrowed gradually into the petiole. 

 Flowers \-\.\ in. long, yellow or white spotted with red ; sepals very variable, some- 

 times very large, and almost orbicular; standard and wings apparently remote from the 

 length of their claws ; spur abrupt, recurved. Capsule 1-1 4 in - veI T sleudi-r. 

 numerous, narrow obovoid, strongly tubercled. Allied to /. scabrida, but smaller, more 

 delicate, with differently shaped lip, spur, and sepals. 



104. X.longipes,#./. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 150 ; quite glabrous, 

 tall, branched, leaves distant shortly petioled elliptic-lanceolate caudate- 



