442 XXXII. GERANiACE^. (§ Balsaminese, Hook, f.) [Impaliens. 



B IV. — SubtjmbellaTjE. Leaves all alternate, very rarely opposite. 

 Peduncles usually fascicled towards the top of the stem or branches, many- 

 flowered. Flowers in interrupted racemes, subumbelled or whorled, often 

 large purplish, small and yellow in /. radiata. (Sp. 107-111.) 



B V. — Eacemos^. Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite. Pedwndes 

 usually fascicled towards the top of the stem or branches. Flowers often 

 smallj in uninterrupted racemes, usually yellow. (Sp. 112-122.) 



A. Capsule short, trapezoid or ellipsoid. 



A I. — ScAPIGERiB. 



* Spvr shorter than the flower or 0. Wings Z-ldbed, except in I. orchioides. 



1. X. Beddomei, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves orbicular or renif orm- 

 cordate, bracts obtuse or subacute, standard short broader than long, 

 wing-lobes 3 subequal retuse, spur incurved clavate obtuse. I. scapiflora, 

 W. & A. Prodr. 137 in part ; Wight III. t. 967 : H.f. & T. in Joum. Linn. 

 Soc. iv. 118 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bond). Flor. 43, not of Ueyne. 



Mountains of Malabar; near Dodabet, Coonnoor, and elsewhere in the Nilghiris, 

 Wight. 



A foot high or less. Leaves 1—4 in. diam., fleshy, quite entire or obscurely orenate- 

 serrate ; nerves flabellate. liacemes 1-4 in. ; bracts broadly ovate ; pedicels slender. 

 jFlnwers 4 in. diam. ; sepals broadly and obliquely ovate ; wings with three subequal 

 short truncate retuse lobes; spur rather shorter than the flower. Capsule J in., elliptic. 

 Seeds minute, granulate. — Being obliged to find a new name for this beautiful plant, 1 

 have selected that of Col. Beddome, who has made the Peninsular species his special 

 study. 



2. X. modesta, Wight in Madr. Joum. v. 13 ; Ic. t. 968 ; leaves ovate- 

 cordate acute crenate-serrate sparsely hairy above, bracts with thickened 

 tips, standard short broader than long, wings with 3 subequal obtuse lobes, 

 spur recurved short obtuse. I. tenuis, Bedd. in Madr. Joum. ser. 2, iv. 69, 

 t. 7, f. 12 ; Ic. PL Ind. Or. p. 31. 



Mountains of Malabar ; Nilghiri, and SivagheiTy hills, Wigltt. Anamallay hills, 

 alt. 5-7000 ft., Beddome. 



A foot high or less. Leaves 1-5 in. ; basal lobes rounded, with a rounded sinus on 

 each side of the petiole. Scape very slender; raceme 1-2 in.; pedicels capillary; 

 bracts much smaller and narrower than in Beddomei. Flowers J in. diam., pink ; 

 sepals small. CopswZe J-J in., elliptic, acute at both ends. /Seetis minute. {Wings 

 pubescent on the surface, Beddome.) 



3. I. Stocksil, H.f. & T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iv. 119; very small, 

 quite glabrous, leaves orbicular oblong or broad-ovate obtuse crenate base 

 acute or rounded, bracts acute, standard orbicular, lip boat-shaped spur 

 less. Dalz. <fc Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 42. 



Mountains of the Concan, Law, Stocks. 



Much the smallest of the Scapigerous section, 1-4 i*. Leaves J-j in. diam., tip 

 obtuse or rounded, nerves flabellate ; petiole as long or shorter than the blade ; pedicels 

 thick for the size of the plant; bracts small, ovate. Flowers few, 3-6. Sepals broadly 

 ovate, obtuse ; standard as broad as long, not very concave, obtuse, rather rhomboid ; 

 wings with three obtuse lobes, the lower rather the longest. Capsule J in., elliptic, 

 turgid, acute. Seeds minute, linear-oblong. 



4. X. crenata, Bedd. in Madr. Joum. ser. 2, iv. 69, t. 7, f. 10 ; Ic. PL 

 Ind. Or. p. 31 ; leaves orbicular-reniform or cordate crenate, scape very 



