GERANIAOE^. 



VI. BALSAM SEEIES. 



The Balsams^ (fig. 40-49) have irregular hermai^hrodite flowers, 

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

 bricated se^jals, viz. one posterior, very large, prolonged behind 



Impatiens lialsi 



40. riowcr-bcaring and fiuit-bearing 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 are five petals, the ante- 

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

 floration by the two posterior. 



' Impatieiix I. Gcii. n. 1908.— J. in Ann. Mm. 

 V. 232.— Lamk. Diet. i. 363 ; Suppl. i. 5G9; III. 

 t. 72.5.— K. in Mém. Sùc. List. Nut. par. iii. 387. 

 — R(EP. De J. et aff. Balsam. Basil. (1830).— 

 Ag. in Sc. Nat. sér. 2, ii. 44. — DC. in Man. Sac. 

 Phys. Gen. v. t. 1. — Spach, Suit à, Bnffoii, xiii. 

 271.— TuKP. in Diet. Si: Nat. Atl. t. 134.— 

 Endl. Gen. n. 6060.— Lindl. Vii/. Kiiit,tl. 490, 



VOL. V. 



fig. 337.— Payer, Organog. 81, t. 17.— A. Gkay 

 Gen. 111. t. 152.— H. Bn. in Pager Fam. Nat. 

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

 leonogr. t. 257. — Lem. et DcsE. Tr. Gén. 352. — 

 Bahamina Gmv.ts. Fruct. ii. 1.51, t. 113. — T. 

 Inst. t. 235.— Adans. Fam. des. PI. ii. 4.S2.— 

 Eiv. Teti-ap. In; iv. 146.— J. Gca. 270.— DC. 

 Piodr. i. GS5. 



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