xxxn. GERANIACEJE. ( Balsaminece, Hook, f.) 477 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6-12,000 ft.; KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-7000 ft. 



A large leafy species, 3-5 ft., with copious inflorescence. Leaves 3-5 in., often fas- 

 cicled towards the top of the stem, crenatures large, bristles basal ; petiole -3 in., 

 with two large stipulifbrm glands at the base. Peduncles 3-8 in., corymbosely crowded, 

 strict, stiff, with 2-5 whorls of stiff spreading pedicels 4~2 in. long ; bracts whorled, 

 53 in., ovate, with long stout glandular points. Flowers 4 in. including the spur, 

 yellow or purplish, bud rounded at the top ; sepals lanceolate, with long points like the 

 bracts ; standard neither winged, keeled nor spurred ; spur straight with a swollen tip, 

 much shorter than the pedicel. Capsule f-1 in., strict, rarely inclined, usually in a line 

 with the pedicel, linear, hardly at all clavate, glabrous. /Seeds between obovoid and 

 oblong, small and smooth or nearly so, apiculate at the hilum. A very distinct plant, 

 though in a dry state small specimens are indistinguishable from several of its allies 

 in B. v. The Sikkim specimens have larger seeds than the Khasian. 



B v. RACEMOSE. 



* Bracts deciduous ; spur long, slender. 



112. I. insignia, DC. Prodr. i. 688; glabrous, stem simple robust, 

 leaves sessile elliptic-lanceolate acuminate serrate thick, nerves many 

 strong, peduncles subterminal usually numerous stout long erect, raceme 

 terminal, bracts large caducous, flowers crowded red, sepals large, standard 

 broadly oblong recurved, wings small 2-lobed, lobes short, lip conoid al 

 tapering into a long curved spur. Watt. Plant. As. Rar. ii. 83, t. 194 ; 

 Cat. 4766 ; H.f. & T. in Jo urn. Linn. Soc. iv. 150. 



NIPAL, Wallicli. 



Stem 1-2 ft., quite simple, very stout, hard, angled, swollen at the nodes, leafy. 

 Leaves 2-5 in., almost coriaceous, serratures close-set, tipped with a stout bristle, midrib 

 and nerves prominent, transverse nerves very distinct ; stipules of 2 glands. Peduncks 

 often crowded at the top of the stem, 4-8 in., rigid ; bracts in., boat-shaped, acute ; 

 pedicels |-| in., erect in flower spreading in fruit. Flowers 1^ in., dark rose ; sepals 

 broad, acuminate ; standard neither keeled nor spurred ; lateral wing-lobes ovate, 

 obtuse, terminal longer, oblong; lip with a stout point or horn, gradually contracting 

 below into the flexuous spur, together 1 in. long. Capsule \ in., narrow clavate, apicu- 

 late, glabrous, cernuous. Specimens in the Wallichian Herbarium are labelled as from 

 Silhet, but I suspect through some error. 



113. I. leptoceras, DC. Prodr. i. 688 ; very robust, much branched, 

 nodes close swollen, leaves sessile or petioled narrow lanceolate acuminate 

 crenate-serrate, peduncles fascicled subterminal erect shorter than the leaves, 

 flowers small (except the spur) crowded, bracts large boat-shaped with long 

 points deciduous, buds rounded, sepals large obliquely ovate-cordate, wings 

 2-lobed with a short narrow claw, lip boat-shaped, spur very long slender. 

 Wail. Cat, 4770. I. longicornu, Watt, in Roxb. Fl Ind. Ed. Carey, ii. 462 ? 

 Miquel III. Flor. Archip. Ind. 103. I. leptoceras var. a, H. f. & T. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iv. 153. I. odorata, Don Prodr. 213. 



NIPAL, or Sheopore, Wallich. DISTRIB. ? Java (Jliquel). 



Stem 2-4 ft.? smooth, fleshy, as thick as the thumb below ; branches with decurrent 

 lines from the petioles. Leaves 5-6 in., very long-acuminate, serratures incumbent, with 

 basal bristles ; nerves not stout, and without transverse nervules ; petiole |-1 in., with 

 purplish stipular glands. Peduncles shorter than the leaves, stout, erect. Flowers yellow, 

 fragrant, ^ in. diam. ; bracts large, J-^ in., 3-nerved ; pedicels 1 in. Standard broader 

 than long ; wings (1 have given Wallich a description in the specific character) ; lip 

 pointed, but not horned at the point ; spur ascending or straight. Capsule detached, 

 those in the Walliohian Herbarium, and consequently possibly not of this species, arc 

 11 1 in., very narrow, acuminate, glabrous. Seeds unripe, oblong. I find nothing 

 resembling Wallich's original specimens in any other collection, in point of robustness, 



