186 
and hairy with rigid, yellow bristles: flowers large, scarlet, crimson, 
purple or white, variegated. 3 Serie HE Sy ON 
Coromandel. Bombay. Flowering nearly all the year. I, 
arcuata, ( Wall.) is probably only a variety of the above. 
(2) I. Lescnenautri. (Wall. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 136. 
Syn. Balsamina Leschenaultii, Dec. prod. 1. p. 686. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 970.—Spicil. t. 42. 
Spec. Cuar. Erect, branched, almost glabrous: Teaves short- 
petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, glabrous, with bristly in-. 
curved serratures: petioles without glands: pedicels solitary, 
shorter than the leaves: lateral sepals minute: spur slender, curv- 
ed upwards: capsule small, drooping, glabrous, ovate, pointed: 
flowers pale rose-colour, or neatly white. 
Common on the Neilgherries. 
(3) I. seaprruscuta. (Heyne.) . 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 186.—Roxb. fl. Ind. (Ed. Wall.) 
YI. p. 464. : : 
Spec. Cuar. Erect, branched, tomentose; the leaves cuspidate- 
serrated, upper side slightly pubescent, under, hairy: pedicels ag- 
gregate, pubescent, much shorter than the leaves: upper and lower 
sepals covered with rusty pubescence; lower one gibbous, without 
@ spur. 
Peninsula. South Concans. 
(4) I. penputa. (Heyne.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 136. 
- Spec. Cuan. Erect, branched; branches with a line of hairs 
decurrent from the sides of the base of the petioles: leaves round-. 
ish-oval, remotely bristle-serrated, upper side slightly hairy, under 
glaucous: pedicels axillary, usually solitary, longer than the pe- 
tioles, hairy, deflexed in fruit: flowers small, glabrous, without 
spurs: capsule small, ventricose. 
Peninsula. 
(5) I. Mysorensis. (Koth.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 137.—Roth. Nov. Sp. p. 164, 
Syn. Balsamina Mysorensis, Dec. prod. I. p. 686. 
Spec. Cuar. Stems simple, erect: leaves lanceolate, acumi- 
nated, glabrous: pedicels axillary, filiform, in pairs, about half the 
length of the leaves: flowers small, longer than the straight spur; 
eapsule densely pubescent, few-seeded : flowers red. 
Mysore, 
