50 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
be well to add that we are not prepared to devote 
ailiniined space to the discussion of details ewe with the 
nomenclature question, for which reason we refrain from comment 
wide certain other portions of Dr. Kuntze’ G cetunienicatial although 
e do not accept his inferences.—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
IMPATIENS ROYLEI IN ENGLAND. 
By James Britten, F.L.S. 
In the Botanical Magazine for te last (t. 7647) Sir si 
Hooker figures and describes, under the name Impatiens Roylet va 
paltidifiora, a form of a plant which signe oe familiar as sl 
London gardens, where it is kno «Tree Balsam.” 
ky eatin of the genus (J. biflora) is sick 7 completely casual 
in this country, and another (J. pareviete) is fully esta plished in 
certain localities; and as it seems ee at to these, which are 
already in our books, and have come to us respectively from North 
America and Russia, a third introduetion—this time from 
Himalayas—may have to be added, it may be worth while 
transcribe Sir Joseph’s note upon the which he figures. He 
writes :-— 
‘ The plant here figured . appeared for the first time i 
the slesibburies of my garden n near ‘Sumningdale three or — years 
ago, and rapidly increased, so as to become a weed, until 1898, 
when the long-continued drought decimated the instal aid pre- 
vented the seeding of the few that were ag goed ioe or whenee 
it was introduced I cannot form an idea. I hav ver raised a0 
Also I saw it growing in pro a cottage garden 0 ge 
Mr. Mitford’s cciilanes: Batsford "Park, cc iatorshins, but 2 
a — of it was to be found in that gentleman’s fine ga " 
or in collection of har oa brea shrubs, 
and herbaceous plants, where 1, sich abounds in a nat ralized 
of the Sikkim Himalaya, and of which I made a coloured drawing 
on the spot, differing only in having subulate ee Baar glands, 
eg og in the Sikkim plant these are flat or pulvi 
ollowing notices show that the plant has tae. noticed in 
Hegiand for nearly half a century. In the “Seale grriah i 
(1855) Mr. Irvine says: ‘* We have been informed that a Balsam 
twice as tall as the ioeetens fulva, with a stem as thick - a + common 
broom-handle, grows on the Colne between Harefield and Denham. 
. . « « We had our ielecnation from the k Sricas of Old Park Woods, 
