ImpatiensJ\ xxxn. OERANIACE^E. ( Balsamineae, Hook, f.) 488 



spur exceeding the flower; capsule cylindric, often incurved. Nilghiri Mts., Perrotet, 

 n. 187. 



I. CLAVICORNU, Turcz. I.e. 1859, i. 271. The description will apply to any of the 

 long-spurred species of group A 1. 



I. DEBILIS, Turcz. I.e. 1859, i. 271, may be /. tenella or any of its allies. 



I. ASSAMENHIS, Griff. Not. PL. Asiat. iv. 459, t. 576, f. 1. It is impossible to say 

 what plant is meant here. The description answers best to I. stenantka in its habit, 

 very long peduncles, small flowers, and glabrous foliage, &c. ; but the figure cited is 

 that of a very robust and very pubescent plant (like /. scabrida), with an immense 

 flower, totally differing from the description in every respect. Banks of the Burram- 

 poota in sandy places near Dibong Mookh, Grij/ith. 



I. MALAYENSIS, Griff. I.e. 457, t. 576, f. 2. From the imperfect description this is 

 probably one of the forms of /. Balsamina. Mergui, Griffith. 



I. ? From Eamgunga in Kumaon, alt. 7200 ft., Strach. & Winl. Resembles /. lacd- 

 flora, Edgew., but has very broad green sepals. 



I.? Baltal in Kashmir, T. Thomson; and Marri, Fleming. Probably a form of 

 /. amphorata or /. bicornuta. 



I. ? Marri, Fleming. Probably a form of laxiflora, but the leaves are sharply ser- 

 rate and buds larger. 



I. ? Khagump, Griffith (? Khagumpa in Bhotan). A suffruticose species with the 

 habit of /. Icevigata, but Ilir.vM-s twice as large, and the very large standard herbaceous 

 and crested ; wings apparently rounded ; lip large, deeply boat-shaped ; spur stout, 

 clubbed at the tip. 



..<. HYDROCERA, Blume. 



A glabrous erect marsh herb. Leaves narrow, alternate, flowers in 

 short axillary 1-2-liowered peduncles, irregular, tiejxtls 5. col Hired, im- 

 bricate; 2 outer lateral, flat ; posticous one produced into a short "hollow 

 spur. Petals 5, the anticous outer, very large, concave. Disk-glands 0. 

 Stamens 5, filaments short fiat ; anthers slightly cohering around the pistil. 

 Ovary 5-celled ; stigmas 5 sessile ; ovules 2-3 in each cell. Drupe baccate, 

 stone bony truncate 5-celled, cells 1-seeded. Seeds curved, corrugated, 

 albumen ; cotyledons plano-convex, thickish, radicle short superior. 

 DISTEIB. One tropical Asiatic species. 



1. K. ti^iflora, , W. J. Prvdr. i. 140; //. /. <fc T. in Journ. Litni. 

 &*: iv 156. ",'<. :.'>'. Ir.iitatiens trifiora, Linn. 



DC. Prolr. i. 6 S75C. I. ? nataus, Wtlld. ; DC. Prodr. i. 687 ; 



Mori. Fl. Ind. i. 652; Walt. Oat. 4755. Tytonia natans, G. Don, (Itn. 

 Syst. i. 749 ; fiwrm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 16 (inaccurate}. 



Throughout BENGAL,, the EASTERN and WESTERN PENINSULA, CEVLON and BIRMA, in 

 marshes. DISTRIB. Java. 



Annual. Stem, floating, fistular, flexuous, rooting at the nodes, often many yards 

 long; branches 1-2 ft., erect, 5-angIed, as thick as the finger. Leave* 1-5 in., jihear- 

 lanceolate, serrate, sessile; stipular glands 2. Peduncles short, usually 3-flowered ; 

 bracts oblong. Flowers 1 in. diam.. variegated red, white, and yellow. I)rii[>c sub- 

 globose, as large as a cherry, smooth, red, succulent. 



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