Jmpatiens. pentandria monogynia. 45^ 



er. Calycine leaflets linear- falcate, acuminate, hairy on the outside 

 as is also the small upper petal. — The two lateral petals two-lobed; 

 the inner lobe small, the outer one extremely large, semi-ovate; the 

 inner margin rectilinear. Nectary obliquely truncate, infundibuli- 

 form, narrow, tapering from the base into a slender, ascending, and 

 incurved spur which nearly equals the pedicel in length. Capsule 

 smooth, oblong, a little ventricose, furrowed, an inch long, contain- 

 ing a number of small brown seeds. — N. W. 



8. I. bracteata, Colebr, Mss. 



Leaves lanceolate, serrulate, sub-opposite. Racemes terminal, ob- 

 long, many-flowered, fringed with the innumerable, long, coloured 

 hairs of the lanceolate bractes. tower Up of the Jlower very large. 

 Spur l° n gj ascending. 



A native of Szlhet, and from thence introduced into the Hon; 

 Companys botanic garden in 1814, by the late Mr. Smith. It blos- 

 soms during the rainy season. 



This most charming plant is smooth and succulent ; it grows to the 

 height of two feet, with a jointed, purplish stem and branches; some- 

 times it is nearly undivided- Leaves opposite and alternate on the 

 same plant, two to three inches long, smooth, acute at both ends; the 

 serratures incumbent, those nearest the base bristle-pointed ; dark- 

 green above, pallid and almost silvery underneath. Petiol short, flat- 

 tish above. Racemes terminal, erect, from two to five inches long, 

 before expansion globular and capitate, afterwards oblong ; beauti- 

 fully decorated with numerous pink-coloured large flowers, inter- 

 spersed with the dense pink hairs of the bractes. The bractes are 

 situated under each pedicel, lanceolate, plicate, recurved, about five 

 lines long, pale green, fringed in a very elegant manner with a single 

 row of dense, very long, simple, sharp, pink-coloured, shining hairs, 

 which are alternately divaricate upwards and downwards. Common 

 peduncle two inches long, slender ; partial ones filiform, twice as long 

 as the braete which supports them. — Calyx very small, quickly de- 



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