Impat'cns.} xxxn. GERANIACE^:. ( Balsamineae, Hook, f.) 479 



? VAR. 2 ; leaves small obtuse or subacute, peduncles few longer than tlie leaves, 

 terminal wing-lobe strap-shaped obtuse, flowers orange-yellow speckled with red, mouth 

 of lip hardly horned. I. leptoceras, var. /3, H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 153, 

 Khasia Mts., at Myrung and Nonkrim perhaps a different species. 



** tracts persistent ; spur long, slender. 



116. X. racexnosa, DC. Prodr. i. 688; erect, quite glabrous, slender, 

 branched, leaves petioled elliptic-ovate or lanceolate acuminate crenate, 

 peduncles lateral and subterminal slender erect, bracts persistent, flowers 

 ^ |-in., sepals ovate, standard orbicular, wings with a filiform process 

 descending into the spur, lip boat-shaped with a curved spur equalling tiie 

 pedicel. I. racemosa, Wall. Cat. 4730 in part ; I. tingens, Edgew. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xx. 41 ; //. /. & T. in Journ. Linn. tioc. iv. 151. I. micrantha, 

 Don Prodr. 203. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from SIMLA, alt. 5-7000 ft., to SIKKIM, alt. 6-12,000 ft. 



Stem 2-3 ft. high, sometimes glandular above. Leaves 3-9 in., membranous, crena- 

 tures with a bristle in the sinus or near it; petiole |-2 in., slender, naked or with 

 2 sessile or pedicelled stipular glands at the base. Itacemes usually exceeding the 

 leaves, not interrupted, lax, 6-10-flowered ; bracts ovate, with stout glandular points; 

 pedicels slender, f 'lowers small (4 in.), yellow ; sepals very variable, ovate or oblong, 

 with points like the bracts ; standard not spurred or winged ; wings narrow, pendulous, 

 lateral lobes orbicular, terminal broadly strap-shaped, obtuse, with a basal rounded 

 auricle externally, a slender almost filiform process, with a glandular tip, descends from 

 the inner margin of each wing into the spur. Capsule \ f in., linear-clavate, acumi- 

 nate, glabrous. Seeds large, oblong, compressed, rugose. A careful examination of those 

 specimens of Wallich's /. racemosa that agree with De Candoile's description, prove its 

 identity with Edgeworth's /. tingens, both having the curious filiform process of the 

 wings concealed in the spur ; and this obliges me to alter the nomenclature adopted in 

 the Linnean Journal, together with the description, as far as the Khasian specimens 

 (which must be excluded) are concerned. I have failed to prove the existence of the said 

 processes in the dried Sikkim specimens, which are in a very unsatisfactory state for an 

 analysis of such delicacy as that of the spur ; but I think I detect their presence. The 

 plant varies extremely in size of all its parts, but is always small-flowered. Some of 

 Wallich's specimens have linear-lanceolate bracts. There are two sheets marked 

 I. racemosa in Wall. Herb., and on both are specimens of this, and of what is either 

 /. radi'ata or a small state of I. licornnta. The plant distributed by Wallich to the 

 Hookerian and Benthamian Herb., is that here described. Edgeworth (Trans. Linn. 

 Spc.) describes the standard as keeled and crested, which I do not find to be the case in 

 his specimen, which precisely accords with Wallich's. 



117. I. laxifiora, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 40; tall, branched, 

 quite glabrous, leaves petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate crenate, 

 peduncles subterminal slender fascicled, bracts persistent lanceolate, pedi- 

 cels slender, flower | in. yellowish, buds rounded at the end, sepals small, 

 standard orbicular, lateral wing-lobes rounded or oblong terminal rounded 

 or elongate, lip conical apiculate narrowed into a long usually curved 

 spur. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 5-10,000 ft. from SIMLA to SIKKIM; KHASIA MTS., alt. 

 5-6000 ft. 



Stem 2-4 ft., slender. Leaves 3-5 in., membranous, crenatures rounded with basal 

 orsubbasal bristles, nerves slender; petiole 1-3 in.; stipular glands various. Peduncles 

 usually exceeding the leaves, slender ; bracts small, narrow; pedicels not whorled or 

 fascicled, spieading. Flowers together with the spur, about 1 in. ; sepals usually small 

 and narrowly ovate; standard not crested nor spurred at the back ; wings very variable 

 (if the following varieties all belong to one species) ; lip without a stout callous tip ; 

 spur straight or conical, tip often clubbed. Capsule f-1 in., narrowly clavate, mucro- 



