478 XXXTI. GERANIACE^. ( Balsammeoe, Hook, f.) [Lnpatn-ns. 



short internodes (1 in.), swollen nodes, leafiness, very long narrow leaves, few flowers 

 terminating the short peduncles, and great length of spur. Amongst his distributed 

 specimens under this name, however, are I. rfffmox't, In.t'ijlord f and others. He has 



attached a mss. ticket of " /. longicornu, Wall." (along witli the lithographed Catalogue 

 ticket)- to the original specimen, thus identifying this plant with that lie described in 

 the Carey Edition of Roxburgh's Flora Indica. In that work Wallich savs he has 

 received the same plant from Western Xipal, gathered by Dr. Govan ; but there are no 

 specimens of Govan 's in his Herbarium, and I suspect that l<i.<-[tlor<i or rnct-mosa is 

 here alluded to, which he lias distributed under the same number, and which IV < 'au- 

 dolle probably describes as var. a. I. I --niblt-s /. inxif/ni-t, but the leaves 



are longer, less coriaceous, and want the strong transverse m-rvules so well marked in 

 that plant ; the peduncles are moreover much shorter, the (lowers and sepals much 

 smaller, the tip is not horned at the points, and the spur is far longer. De Candolle 

 describes two varieties, a and (3, with peduncles respectively longer and shorter than 

 the leaves. The present plant is his /3 I suppose ; his a being probably /. /</.>-///m. 

 I have, however, retained his name, as being in accordance with Wallich's determi- 

 nation. 



114. I. tuberculata, //./. <( T. in J,mt. Linn. $<>c. iv. 155; erect, 

 branched, quite glabrous, leaves shortly petioled elliptic acuminate crenate, 



peduncles erect and pedicels short, bracts minute caducous, flowers small 

 purplish, sepals falcate, standard orbicular, wings ex-erted broad obtuse, 

 lip boat-shaped with a very short spur, capsule short clavate tubercled. 



Temperate and Subal]iue SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt 10-13,000 ft., .7. />. 11. 



>S7 in 2-3 ft., succulent. Leaves 2-4 in., more or less fascicled as if whorled at the 

 ends of the branches, rather thick, bristles of the serratures basal, nerves many, diverg- 

 ing; petiole J-4 in. ; stipular glands obscure or 0. /' tltim-lm 1 U in. ; racen 

 interrnpu-d. 4-s (lowered ; pedicels \ ', in. Flow, rx .', in. diam. ; sepals mueh curved, 

 very small ; standard orl'icular, very concave, keeled at tin: hack ; lateral wing-lobes 

 orbicular, terminal produced (I think); lip apiculate; stem broad short. Ca/isulc 

 in., erect or hori/ontal, o-angled. valves with 2 series of pustules or tnheni 

 obtuse, with a curved spur or beak. S (Wv \ in., oblong, narrow, rompros-ed ; tola 

 spongy. wrinkled, brown. A very well marked species, l>y the shortly pe.tiolc*! 

 with basal bristles in the crenatures, short peduncles and pedicels, peculiar c&psulefl 

 and large seeds. 



115. I. stenantha, Honk./.; tall, much branched, quite glabrous, 

 leaves petioled elliptic-ovate or lanceolate acute or caudate-acuminate 

 crenate, peduncles axillary and terminal, bracts caducous, flowers 

 yellow, buds beaked at the rounded or subacute tip, sepals small narrow, 

 standard recurved, lateral wing-lobes oblong, terminal narrow elongate 

 acute or obtuse, lip trumpet-shaped horned at the very oblique mouth, 

 narrowed into a long slender spur. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA and E. NIPAL, common, alt. 6-8UOO ft. ; KHASIA Mrs., alt. 

 5-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Usually tall, erect, much branched. Leaves 2-6 in., crenatures with basal or sub- 

 basal bristles ; petiole i-3 in. ; stipular glands sessile or stipitate on the stem or petiole. 

 J^dtnicli'x slender, shorter of longer than the leaf; racemes short; bracts setaceous, 

 caducous long before the expansion of the flower. Flowers yellow, often speckled with 

 red; bud 1 in. long, with a long terminal green beak; sepals sometimes 4; standard 

 orbicular or oblong ; wings with, sometimes a twisted acute terminal lobe nearly as long 

 as the spur, which is sometimes clubbed at the tip. Capsule ^ in., narrow clavate, 

 acuminate, glabrous. Seeds small, obovoid, compressed, opaque. I long hesitated 

 before separating this from /. angustijtora, hut the constantly caducous bracts both in 

 ISikkim and the Khasia Mountains seem to indicate an important difference, which will 

 no doubt be confirmed when the structure of the flower is better known. 



VAR. 1 ; leaves large elliptic caudate-acuminate, terminal wing-lobes acute flat re- 

 curved or twisted. Sikkim. 



