454 pENTANDRiA monogyNIA. Jmpatiens. 



Us seed more or less the whole year round. Rheedes Tilo-Onapu is, I 

 think, more like this than it is to I. Balsamina, though quoted for that 

 species ; and I can scarcely conceive this to be that plant in its origi- 

 nal wild state. 



Root annual, fibrous. — Stem erect, swelled at the leaves, scarcely 

 pubescent in any respect. Branches opposite, several pairs, and ge- 

 nerally below the middle of the plant; whole height from one to two 

 feet, — Leaves on the stem opposite, and tern ; on the branches often 

 alternate, long-petioled, broad-Ianceolar, seriate, a little hairy, paiti- 

 cularly the serratures ; about three inches long, by one broad. — Flow- 

 ers axillary, from one to many, in the latter case their long pedicels 

 are inserted on a very short, common peduncle. — Perianth, of two, 

 small, bracte-like leaflets. — Corol three-petalled ; the upper one form- 

 ing a roof over the interior part of the whole flower; lateral pairs 

 composed of two, large, roundish lobes each ; the lower lobes there- 

 of forming the lip. Nectary large, with a hooked or incurved slender 

 born from its obtuse end. — Stamina, &c. as in the genus. 



It has a pretty appearance when in full blossom, the flowers being 

 numerous, large, and of a lively red colour, with the nectary deeply 

 tinged yellow. 



Obs. by N. W. 



A drawing of this species made under the superintendence of my 

 excellent friend Dr. F. Hamilton, and named by him I. ternifolia, is 

 preserved at the Hon. Company's botanic garden at Calcutta, where 

 the plant thrives well, blossoming in August and September. It is. 

 branchy, fleshy, sub-diaphanous, besprinkled on most parts with a 

 few short, hyaline hairs. — Leaves often five inches long, on very 

 slender naked petiols, equalling half or one-third their own length, 

 and having at their base on each side of their axils a small fascicle 

 of subulate, herbaceous glands. — The fascicles of flowers always 

 shorter than the petiols — Corolla large, scarcely two-lipped, the 

 inner lobes of the lateral petals being considerably elevated above 

 the nectary^ and forming the sides of the throat.— The galea is 



