222 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SO CIETl , Vol. XXI 



Herbs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leap Margins Toothed. 



Petals Unitnixed, 



Impatiens scabrida, 



GERANIAOEiE. 



F. B. I. i. 472. 

 Himalaya 7-10,000 ft. 

 Simla, rare. 

 Mahasu. common 



(Collett). 

 Murree (Douie). 



large, annual, smooth or velvety, stems succu- 

 lent, often much branched ; leaves 2-6 in., ovate or 

 lanceolate, long-pointed, toothed, teeth gland- 

 tipped, sessile or narrowed into a short stalk, 

 stipules of 2 large glands ; flowers yellow, spotted 

 with brown, 1^ in. long without the spur, single on 

 axillary, usually paired stalks, or on a common 2-6 

 flowered stalk, 1-2 in. long, stalk of each flower 

 1-2 in., bracts bristle-like, sepals 3, 2 lateral, 

 minute greenish, one lower (lip) petal-like, coloured 

 yellow, broadly funnel-shaped, abruptly contracted 

 . into a slender, cylindric, incurved hollow spur ^ 

 in. long, petals 3, one upper (standard) very large 

 circular with a small green horn-like process on (fche 

 back, two lower (wings) with lateral lobes, short, 

 rounded, terminal, much smaller oblong, stamens 5, 

 anthers cohering above the 5-toothed stigma with 

 filaments clasping the o^ary ; capsule 1-2 in. long, 

 linear, cylindrical tapering, straight, ribbed, smooth 

 or nearly so, 5-valved, the ripe valves if shaken 

 curl up elastically and jerk out the many, scarcely 

 tubercled, oblong seeds. 



Impatiens amphorata, 



GrERANIACEiE. 



F. B. 1. i. 475. 



Himalaya, 5-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



medium size, annual, smooth, slender or robust ; 

 leaves 3-6 in., lanceolate, round toothed, a bristle- 

 like gland at the point of each rounded tooth, long- 

 pointed, stalked, stipules of two sessile or stalked 

 glands ; flowers purple, 1-1 J in. long less the spur, 

 in racemes branched or not, or in imibel-like clus- 

 ters, lip large deep broad, spur ;} in., standard tip 

 crested, wings white on the lower half ; capsule 

 1-lj in., otherwise like the last species. 



Impatiens Edgeworthii, very like the last species, but with yellow and red 



Geraniace^. streaked flowers, bracts broader, lip funnel-shaped 



F. B. I. i. 476. flower main stalks clustered, neariy terminal. 

 Kulu (Edgeworth). 



