Impatient.} xxxn. GERANIACE<E. ( Balsamineae, Hook, f.) 481 



whence the unexpanded flower has a remarkably narrow form with a beaked tip ; in 

 tin's respect it agrees with I. stenaniha, which differs in the deciduous bracts. The 

 wing-lobes vary much in breadth, and in var. 2 the terminal-lobes are inflexed, 

 crossing one another ; in var. 1 the form of the wing- lobes cannot be determined ; sti- 

 pular glands sessile or pedicelled or 0. 



VAR. 1 ; stem slender, branched, leaves elliptic-ovate. Surureem in woods. 

 ?Bhotan. 



VAR. 2 ; stem very robust shorter sometimes narrowly- winged above, leaves longer 

 narrow-lanceolate. Moflong. 



120. I. micranthemum, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 40; quite 

 glabrous, stein slender branched with scattered glands, somewhat winged 

 by the decurrent petioles, leaves petioled elliptic-ovate acuminate crenate, 

 peduncles subterminal fascicled and axillary very slender, bracts lan- 

 ceolate persistent, flowers \ in. white, sepals small narrow, standard 

 orbicular, wings conniving, lateral lobes elliptic, terminal rounded, lip 

 tubular narrowed into a slender straight spur. //./. & T. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iv. 154, under I. laxiflora. 



Temperate Western Himalaya; SIMLA, alt. 6-10,000 ft., E'lgewortli, Thornton. 



A tall slender pale succulent plant, with difficulty distinguished in a dry state from 

 I. laxiflora, except by the smaller flowers and straighter spur. Leaves 3-4 in., very 

 rarely opposite, flaccid, with often 2 glands at the base of the blade, crenatures with 

 basal bristles, upper subsessile ; stipular gland stipitate. Peduncles longer or shorter 

 than the leaves ; racemes many-flowered ; pedicels ^-1 in., capillarv. f 'lowers white ; 

 standard with yellow and red spots. Capsule horizontal, -f in., linear, apiculate, gla- 

 brous< /Seeds oblong, rugulose. I can find no valid characters in the description given 

 whereby to separate /. elata ; both are probably forms of /. brachycentra, to which 

 Edge worth's var. j3 of I. micranthemum may be referable. 



VAR. 1 ; bristles of crenatures basal, pedicels glandular. I. micranthemum, 

 Edgew, I.e. 



VAR. 2 ; bristles of crenatures subapical, pedicels glandular. I. elata, Edgew. Ic. 41. 



* Bracts persistent, spur short or 0. 



121. X. bracnycentra, Kar. <& Kir. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1S42, i. 

 179 ; erect, slender, branched, quite glabrous, leaves long-petioled 

 ellijrtic acuminate crenate-serrate, peduncles fascicled at the top of the 

 stem stout erect, racemes many-flowered, bracts minute persistent, flowers 

 minute pale, sepals ovate obtuse concave, standard broadly obovate, wings 

 ratffer long, lateral lobes rounded, terminal produced 2-lobed, lip boat- 

 shaped with a very short straight conical spur. 



Western temperate Himalaya, alt. 7-10,000 ft., from KUNAWUR, Jacquemont, to 

 MARRI, Fleming. DISTRIB. Soongaria. 



Annual, 1-2 it. /Stem usually naked below, not winged. Leaves 2-5 in., very mem- 

 branous, teeth tipped with a bristle, nerves many, very slender; petiole 4-1 in., slender, 

 often with 2 sessile or stipitate stipulur ghinds. Peduncles usually very numerous, 1-3 

 in., very slender, mostly subterminal, with a few reduced lateral ones in the lower axils : 

 bracts setaceous ; pedicels capillary. Flowers \ in., whitish ; sepals large for the size of 

 the flower ; standard not keeled or spurred. Capsule ^-| in., narrow clavate, acute, 

 membranous, glabrous. Seeds few, oblong, pyriform, compressed, rugulose. The bristles 

 of the teeth of this species are distinctly apical. I. data, Edgew. (Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 

 41) differs according to the description in the distinct spur, in being dotted with black 

 glands, and having glandular tips to the pedicels. (See under /. micranthemum.) 



122. I. depauperata, Hook. f. ; low, slender, very much branched, 

 quite glabrous, leaves small shortly petioled elliptic-ovate or lanceolate 

 acumiiiate-crenate, racemes axillary few-flowered, bracts persistent, flowers 



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