482 xxxii. GERANIACE^E. ( Balsamineae, Hook, f.) [Impai 



minute yellow, sepals ovate, standard orbicular, wings short, lip boat- 

 shaped with a gibbosity or boss in place of a spur. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft., at Surureem on walls, (.,'n'tJith; at Molim, /. 1). H. 

 & T. T. 



Like a very small form of/, racemosa, but the flowers are not | in. diameter and 

 are not spurred. I should have referred it to a reduced f:rm of this plant with niinuie 

 ilewers anested in development, had it occurred in the Himalaya, hut the widely- 

 sundered habitat obliges me to regard it as distinct, Cai>mle ^ in., narrow-e 

 glabrous. ticeJs small, obovate, compres^d. pointed at the hilum. 



OF DOUBTFUL AFFINITY. 



123. I. glauca, //. /. <G T. /// Journ, Linn. >S'or. iv. 155 ; tall, stout, erect, 

 quite glabrous, very glaucous throughout, leaves loiig-petioled ovate oblong 

 or cordate coarsely crenute white beneath, peduncles axillary and terminal 

 very long and stout, raceme not interrupted. 



Western temperate Hinnlaya. at Pwali in KUMAOX, alt. 9500 ft., 6 

 S7' /// very stout, tin- base ot' the 1. ranch in the Herbarium, which is almost 

 long, being as thick as a swan's quill and much contracted, as it' succulent when 

 1 iii., very obtuse, quite white beneath, membranous, neives tew arched, 

 t lives with sub-terminal cilia or none ; ]<eii<>ir A j in., with a large scutcllate gland at 

 the outer base, which is also present at an analogous position on the peduncle. 

 Pedunclt-s manv, 5 in., iij per fascicled (as if branched) : 



terminal, C> 8 tlowered ; bracts caducous ; p.'dieeU stut, '_-; in., fruiii 

 much thickened at the lip. Oy .*// 1 \ in., inclined, lim ar-clavate, glabrous. 

 several, larr.e, oblong, ruuulosc. Of this veiy singular species 1 have >een but one 

 mutilated flowerless specimen ; it is wholly covered with a g aucous secretion nf the 

 epidermis, very much as in Jlnln'* I //A u-na ; tbe long-petioled leaves not narrowed into 

 the petiole, with coarse creuatmvs, resemble those of /. Xuli-nn t ,t,uj< , 

 dently a tall much-branched plant. 



[The following species has been published by Major T'eddonie in a in; 



of the /.'o/^vs, which did not reach England until after Tail 11. had 

 appeared.] 



33 bis. I. Ballardi, 7,V^/. /,-. J'/. I ml. Or. 44, t, 192; slender, rooting 

 I >elow, nearly glabrous, leaves alternate and opposite petioled oval. 

 rate, base \vitli glandular cilia, peduncles slender axillary and terminal 

 much exceeding the leaves, ilowers suhumbellate, sepals ovate-subulate, 

 standard orbicular concave, wings dimidiate-lanceolate acute spreading, 

 the lobes separated by a notch only, li|> boat-shaped with a very short 

 straight spur which is inflated in the middle and subulate at the tip. 



Mountains of TRAVAHCOB, near 1' : 2-3500 ft., r'<1<!nni<-. 



A slender herb, 1-U ft. >'/V.,/ L laKinus. l-.carrx 1--'J in, nerves '.', or 4 on each side, 

 slightly hairy above, glabrous* beneath ; petiole .', 'i in. PedwndtB 2-3J in., - 

 brous, 6-8-nOWered; pedicels slender, brads minute. Flmnr 4 : in. long; Standard 

 obscured v keeled, s]iiir as long as the wiiiijs. Capsule ovoid, swollen, eubglabrous, 

 7-10-s-eeded X< c<tx with weak hairs. Description taken Ire; iact^rs 



?.nd plate quoted above, where it is stated that it is allied to /. Govghii, but has much 

 larger flowers and differently shaped petals. 



DOUBTFUL SPEC IKS. 



T. sEMivERTiciLLATA, Turcz. in-Rull. Soc. Nat. MOKC. 1 8G3, i. 594. Annual, erect, 

 glabrous, branched ; leaves opposite and often 3-nately whorled, lower long petioled, 

 v.pper sessile, attenuate at both ends, repand creriate, with a bristle between the crena- 

 tuVes; peduncles axillary, i-liowered, as long as the leaf, lower solitary, upper fascicled ; 



