456 PENTANDRIA monogynia, Impaliens. 



as far as regards the type of this species, I", pedunculis, trifloris,fuliis 

 angusto-lanceolalis, Linn. zeyl. 315, this may be correct • but Bui- 

 samina avgustifolia, floribus terms communi pedunculo ortis, Bunn. 

 zeyl. 41. h \6.f 2. which Linn, himself and all succeeding authors 

 quote as a synonym, is widely different.— N. W. 



Additional species by N. TV. 



4. I. cristata, Wall. 



Stem pubescent, slightly angular, scarcely at all jointed. Leaves 

 lanceolate, cuspidato-serrate, acuminate, pubescent. Peduncles few- 

 flowered, equalling the petiols; the uppermost petal with a sharp keel. 



Nectary longer than the pedicel, infundibuliform, tapering into an 

 incurved spur. 



Seeds of this plant were communicated to me in 1817 by my friend 

 Dr. Govan from Hungtoo in Bissepur, on the confines of Chinese 

 Tartary. The plants blossomed in the Hon. Company's botanic 

 garden in March of the following year. 



An erect, succulent, smoothish species, about three feet high. Stem 

 purplish below, thick, cylindric, a little angular, and almost entirely 

 without joints, pubescent towards the apex, as are also the opposite 

 or alternate simple branches. — Leaves alternate, spreading, at length 

 nodding, about three inches long, pubescent, attenuate at the base, all 

 the serratures ending in a subulate hyaline cuspis ; short-petioled. — 

 Stipulary gland on one side only of the axil, large, ovate, adnate, 

 mucous, purple, evanescent. — Peduncles short, axillary, from two- to 

 four-flowered, pubescent ; pedicels half an inch long, bearing above 

 their middle a pair of linear, cariuate bract lets. — Flowers yellow, with 

 minute purple dots, two-lipped, the under lip elongated. — Calycine 

 leaflets ovate, acute, a little gibbous at the base. — Upper petal broad- 

 ovate, retvse, adscending, keeled ou the back; lateral ones with a gib. 



