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ORDER XXXIX. BALSAMACEZX, 
Succulent herbacdous platits: lédvés opposite or alternate : 
flowers axillary: sepals 5, deciduous, the two inner or upper 
ones usually connate, the lowest, spurred: sstivation imbricat- 
ed: petals hypogynous, usually 4, and united by pairs, rarely 5, 
and distinct: stamens hypogynous: anthers 2-celled: ovary 
solitary, 5-celled: ovules numerous, rarely few: stigmas 5, 
sessile, distinct or unitéd + capsule 5-celléd, 5-valved, bursting 
elastically, or a 5-celled drupe: seeds several: albumen none: 
embryo straight. 
GENUS I. IMPATIENS. 
Pentandria Monogynla. Sex: Syst: 
' Deriv. So called in allusion to thé elastic forse with which the 
capsules burst. 
Gen. Caan. Sepals 5, but apparently only 4, the two upper 
ones béing united: petals 4, but apparently only 2, the lower ones 
being united to the lateral ones: filament’ tore or less united at 
the a apéx: anthers opéning lengthwise or ttansversély : capsulé 
often 1-celled by the disappearance of the dissepiments. 
Note. In following the specific descriptions given in Wight and 
Amott’s Prodromus, (See Vol. I. p. 135) the pair of combined sepals 
is called a posterior sepal, and each pair of combined petals, a 
single 2-lobed petal. 
Section I. edves altérnate’: pene Axillary, solitary or seve- 
ral together, 1-flowered. 
(i) I. BarsaminA. (Linn.) 
Tdbit, W. & A. prod: I. p. 185.—Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 651. 
Syn. Balsamina hortensis, Dec. prod. I. p. 685.—I: coccinea, 
Sim's in Bot. Mag.—B. cornuta, Dec. prod. I. p. 686.—B. éoéci- 
nea, Do. p. 685. 
Engrav. Rumph. Amb. V. t. 90.—Rheede Mal. IX. t. 52.— 
Bot. Mag. ¢; 1256.—Burm. Zey). #. 16. f: }. 
Spec. Cuak. Hérvacedits, éréct; yoittig shoots hdiry: leaves 
glabrous, aehtely and often deeply sérrated : petioles pubescent or 
hairy, with glands: pedicels 1-2, or more, aggregate; densely pu- 
bescent; much shorter than thé leaves: lateral sepals minute; lan- 
ceolate, anterio¥y one pubescént, infuridibuliform, with 4 slender 
spur, longer or shorter than the flower: capsule ovate, tomentose 
