>«.] XXXII. GERANiACEa:. (§ BalsamineEe, Hook, f.) 441 



lateral Bepals (or 4 when present) ; Zip for the spurred sepal; Standard for the petal 

 next the axis ; and Wings for the combined pairs of lateral petals. 



Conspectus of Sections. 



Series A. Capsule ellipsoid or oblong, short, (rarely | in.), turgid in 

 the middle. Seeds rounded, often with a shining brittle or hairy testa. 

 —Chiefly Peninsular, Ceylon and Khasian species.— Capsule slender in /. 

 Mleinii, trUobata, and perhaps in a few other species of group in. 



A L — ScAPiGEE^. Eooi-stock tuberous, perennial. Leaves all radical. 

 Scape slender; flowers racemed. — All Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 

 (Sp. 1-9.) 



A n. — OppositifollS!. Annual. Leaves all opposite, or the upper rart-lv 

 all whorled in threes (never alternate), usually acutely serrate. Fediceh 

 solitary or fascicled. Seeds few, large, testa black glabrous. — The pedicels 

 of /. Lawii, salicifdia, and others are sometimes arranged on a short pe- 

 duncle. (Sp. 10-25.) 



A III. — SuBVEETiciLLATiE. Annual. Leaves all opposite or subopposite, 

 or the lower alternate and upper opposite or whorled, rarely all alternate. 

 Fedundes 1- or more-flowered. Seeds often villous or hairy. (Sp. 26-36.) 



A IV. — TjNlFLOKiE. Mostly annual. Leaves all alternate, usually rather 

 distant. Flowers solitary or fascicled ; pedicels not crowded on a common 

 peduncle. (Sp. 37-53.) 



I A y. — Lateriflora!. Leaves all alternate, rather distant, not all ap- 

 proximate or whorled. Peduncles axillary, 1-3 rarely 4-5-fiowered ; flowers 

 racemose (not umbelled). (Sp. 54-57.) • , 



A VI. — Epiphytic^. Succulent short stemmed epiphytes. Peduncl/'S 

 1-2-flowered. Standard and wings very small ; lip very large, laterally 

 compressed and saccate. — Western Peninsula. (Sp. 58-60.) 



Ayii. — Umbellatje and Subcapitat.!;. Leaves all alternate, rarely 

 opposite, often crowded at the end of the stem or branches and almost 

 whorled. — Flowers in peduncled dense racemes or subumbeUed corymbs ; 

 bracts often conspicuous. — Chiefly Western Peninsula and Khasia Mts. 

 (Sp. 61-76.) 



Atui. — Eacemosa Leaves usually crowded upwards, all alternate. 

 Peduncles many, subtenninal, elongate, at length exceeding the leaves, many- 

 flowered. ^/oMier-s racemose, rarely whorled or fascicled. (Sp. 77-87.) 



Series B. Capside elongate, linear or clavate, rarely shortly clavate 

 Seeds oblong or obovoid, compressed ; testa usually rugulose, opaque, 

 coriaceous, quite glabrous. — Chiefly Himalayan and Khasia Mts. species. 

 (Capsule doubtful in /. tropoeolifolia, Griff.) 



B 1 — QpposiTiFOLM! AND Vbeticillata Leavesall opposite or whorled or 

 a few alternate. — Stout, taU, succulent, annual species, with subumbeUed, 

 often purplish flowers on long peduncles. (Sp. 88-91.) 



B n.— UnifloRjE. Leaves all alternate. Flowers solitary or rarely 

 2 together, on slender axillary pedicels. (Sp. 92-94.) 



B ni.^AxiLiJFLOE^. Leaves aU alternate. Flowers in axillary 2-4-flow- 

 ered peduncles, not umbelled or racemed. (Sp. 95-106.) 



