GERANIACE^. 



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VI. BALSAM SEEIES. 



The Balsams^ (fig. 40-49) have iiTegiilar hermaphrodite flowers, 

 with convex receptacle. The calyx is formed of five petaloid im- 

 bricated sepals, viz, oue posterior, very large, prolouged behind 



Impatii ns BaUamiiia. 



Fig. 40. Flower-bearing- and fiuit-liearing; stem. 



above its base into a spur of variable form and size ; two lateral, 

 smaller flat and covering the posterior ; finally two anterior, very 

 small or often altogether wanting. There arc five petals, the ante- 

 rior covering the others in the bud, and two lateral covered in pre- 

 floration by the two posterior. 



' Tmpatienn X. Gin. n. 1908. — J. in Ann. Mus. 

 V. 232.— I.AMK. Vict. i. 3G3 ; Suppl. i. 6C9; ///. 

 t. 72.3.— K. in Mem. Sue. List. Nat. par. iii. 387. 

 — U(Ei'. Be Jl. ct uff. lialmm. Basil. (1830).— 

 Ac. in Sc. Nat. ser. 2, ii. 44. — DC. in Mem. Soc. 

 P/u/.i. Gen. V. t. 1. — SriCH, Suil it Biiffon, xiii. 

 271.— Tuur. in Diet. He. Nat. Atl. t. 131.— 

 Endl. Gen. n. GOOO. — Lindl. Vei/. Kinijd. 400, 



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fig. 337.— Payer, Oyganog. 81, t. 17.— A. Ghay 

 Gen. lU. t. 152.— II. Bn. in Payer Fam. Nat. 

 402.— B. H. Qen. 277, 989, n. 19.— Schnizl. 

 Iciinogr. t. 257. — Lem. et DcNE. Tr. Gin. 352. — ■ 

 Balsamina G.iiuTN. Frnct. ii. 151, t. 113.— T. 

 Inst. t. 235.— Adans. Fam. des. PI. ii. 432.— 

 ]{iv. Tvtrap. Irr. iv. 14G.— J. Gen. 270.— DC. 

 Prodr. i. 685. 



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