Impatiens. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 1 45? 



Lous, entire inner margin, and tvvo-lobed outer margin; the exterior 

 lobe largish, oblong. Nectary truncate, longer than the pedicel, 

 ending gradually in a cylindric, ascending spur. 



Obs. This pretty plant seems to be distinct from our European 

 I. Koli-tangere in the following points. The sfem is without joints; 

 the tender shoots are often marked with small cylindric purple glands, 

 as is the case also with most of the following species; the leaves are 

 acuminate, the upper petal is marked with a sharp longitudinal crest 

 on the back, and finally the outer lobe of the lateral petal is oblong 

 and protruding much. — N. W. 



5. I. urtici folia, Wall. 



Stem jointed, smooth. Leaves ovate, most finely acuminate, atte- 

 nuate at the base, grossly and obtusely serrate, with gland-bristly 

 denatures. Peduncles very long, filiform, few-flowered.— Nectary 

 equalling the pedicel, ample, cone-shaped, ending rather abruptly isi 

 a cylindric spur. 



Found by my people at Gosain-Than in the Himalaya, in flower 

 in August and September. 



A large, sub-simple or sparingly branchy, erect, smooth, and shin- 

 ing species, rising from a fibrous root; sometimes glandular towards 

 the top. Leaves large, ovate, ending in a very long, linear acumen, 

 tapering and acute at the base, grossly, obtusely, and unequally ser- 

 rate, with a subulate, mostly gland-capitate tooth in each denature, 

 proceeding sometimes from the gibbous back or the anterior margin of 

 the serratures themselves; from three to five inches long, with a few 

 scattered pellucid hairs on both sides, especially along the primary 

 vessels underneath; shining above. Petiol about an inch long, a 

 little margined. Peduncles axillary, solitary, filiform, smooth, almost 

 as long as the leaves, divided at the apex into fouT or five alternate, 

 longish, slender, one-flowered pedicels, each of which is supported 

 by a lanceolate, lengthened, acuminate bracte. — Flowers large, yel- 

 low, nodding with an ample nectary and large lower lip as in Nolitan^ 



