474 xxxn. GERANIACE.E. ( Balsamineee, Hook, f.) [Impaticns. 



acuminate crenate, peduncles solitary axillary very long slender arcuate, 

 raceme terminal 3-5-flovvered, bracts subulate caducous, flowers 1 in. 

 yellow, sepals 2-4 small, standard orbicular apiculate, wings with a long 

 narrow twisted terminal lobe, lip trumpet-shaped, spur slender hooked. 



Temperate SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 8-10,000 ft., /. D. H. 



A very distinct plant, 3-4 ft., with scattered uniform leaves and long axillary sub- 

 horizontal peduncles, 2-5 in. long. Stipules 0. *$'/< m sulitetragonous. Leaves 3-5 

 in., membranous, rather falcate ; petiole 4~4 i n - Flowers loosely raeemed, pale yellow, 

 unspotted; buds rounded at the apex. Sepals sometimes 4, ovate-lanceolate : lateral 

 vin^-lobe rounded, terminal 1 in., broadly subulate. ( 'tn>.-</i!<- not seen. 1 have not 

 cited any other habitat for this species but Sikkim ; the Kumaon plants cited in .lourn. 

 Linn. Soe. being imperfect. In the form of the lluwer it is most allied to /. In. 

 and its allies. 



_ 10r>. I. urticifolia, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. J wl. Ed. Carey, ii. 457 ; Cat. 4768; 

 simple or sparingly branched, quite glabrous, leaves large lower hnig- 

 petioled elliptic-ovate caudate-acuminate coarsely creuatc, pedimc';. 

 illary and subterminal very slender arched 3-6-flowered, bracts per- 

 slender, flowers large purple or yellow, sepals obliquely ovate, standard 

 orbicular, wings :Mobe<l, lip shortly saccate, spur short incurved or hooked. 

 I. urticifolia, vars. and y, //./. & T. in Jour//. Linn. tioc. iv. 152. 



Temperate Himalaya, NII-AL, Wnllirh ; SIKKIM, alt. 10-12, i00 ft., J.I). If. 



Stem 2-3 ft., usually slender, and hardlv branched. / 



membranous, tips IOUL,' and quite e - m my m i r : 'T'lia- 



tiin-s with subbasal bristles; petiole 1-3 in. ; stipular elands M->silt- or pedieelled or 0. 

 J\<linn-lrx L'-f) in., usually axillary, sometimes subt-nninal and clustered, al\v;i 



Blender, horizontal, and more or less arched: divided, as it were, al the top into 3-5- 

 filiibrm pedicels, which, as well as the bracts (nearly .', in.), an? very slender, a:id do not 

 spread. Floioers yellow according to \\'allich, \vhite or pale purple with ivd streaks, 

 in the Sikkim speeimeii, [{ in. diam. ; sejals obliijue, Long-pointed; standard obscurely 

 keeli-d ; win^s with broad lateral lobes and elongate oblmi:;- terminal ones; spur almost 

 as lu-oad as deep, apieulate, base contracted bill ronndi'd, sjuir stoii'. 

 1 in., inclined, linear, acuminate, ^lalmms. ^<-< <l* unripe. -This resemM'S B 

 deal /. (iniphorata, but is distinguished by its long, arehed, filiform, usually horixontal, 

 peduncles, which ilo not bear a raceme, but as it were divide into pedieid>, and by its 

 long slender bracts. It is most nearly allied to /. Imii/i/n n and /. c>jinb(fi f(t. \\' 

 description of the flower is imperfect, and I am unable to examine the wings of the 

 dried specimens. 



106. X. cymbifera, Hotik.f.; slender, branched, quite glabrous, leaves 

 petioled elliptic-ovate or lanceolate caudate-acuminate sharply creiiate- 

 serrate, peduncles axillary and subterminal much shorter than the leaves 

 iiliforiu 1-4-tlowered, bracts large caductms, (lowers large lilac, sepals large 

 orbicular-ovate, standard orbicular gibbous behind, lateral wing-lobes 

 rounded, terminal elongate-oblong conniving, lip broadly and deeply l>oat- 

 shaped rounded below, spur 0. I. urticifolia )3, //./. & T. in Jouni. Linn. 

 tivc. iv. 152. 



Inner valleys of the SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachoong river, alt. 8-10,000 ft., /. D. //. 



/Stem 2-3 ft., green with pale red-purple blotches; branches slender. Leaves 4-8 in., 

 membranous, tip quite entire, crenatures or serratures very shallow, with a terminal or 

 subterminal bristle; nerves many, arched, slender; petiole 4-;] in., winged; stipular 

 glands sessile. Peduncles 1^-3 in., spreading, capillary; bracts A in., boat-shaped with 

 long points; pedicels divaricating. Flowers 1-1^ in. long, pale lilac spotted with red; 

 sepals nearly as long as the standard, acuminate, green on one (the upper) side of the 

 midrib, lilac on the other ; standard much vaulted, hardly, keeled ; terminal wim;-lobes 

 horizontal, obtuse, conniving and parallel; Jip in. long, ovoid in outline, apiculate, 



