Impatwns.] xxxii. geraniace*. (§ Balsamineas, Hook, f.) 443 



slender few-flowered, standard broader than long very concave, spur short 

 obtuse. I. Akka, Beddome, I.e. 69, f. 11. 



Malabae, in the Anamallay and Akka Mts, alt. 5-8000 ft., Beddome. 



I have not seen this species, which Beddome describes as perhaps not distinct from 

 I. Stochsii; from which, however, it seems to dififer in the large -flowers, long scapes, 

 short pedicels, shape of the standard, and presence of a distinct spur, as well as in the 

 habitat. Though originally described as different plants, Beddome subsequently united 

 hie /. erenata and Akka, which according to his descriptions differ in the first having 

 hairy nerves on the leaves above, short petioles, and a orenate standard ; both hiive 

 hairy upper surfaces of the wings and large flowers (how large i? not stated), pure white 

 with a blue tuft of hairs in /. erenata. 



5. X. orchloides, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. p. 31, t. 151; leaves ovate- 

 cordate obtuse acuminate very hairy above, bracts ovate, standard ovate, 

 wings with two subulate tails, lip saccate spurless. 



Koondah MtSi in Malabar, near Avalanche Ghat, Beddome. 



Leaves 1^-2 in., glabrous beneath, crenatures. bristle-pointed ; petiole very long. 

 Scape _ 6-7-flo_wered ; pedicels very slender. Flowers | in. diara., like those of a 

 Liparis, reddish-brown; sepals ovate; standard obtuse, not vaulted; wings with a 

 dimidiate-oblong blade produced into two pendulous tails longer than, itself; lip acute. 

 Capsule contracted at both ends. Seeds minute scrobiculate. — Description from Bed- 

 dome, who describes the sepals as small, but figures them as remarkably large for the 

 size of the plant. 



** Spur longer than the flower. Wings Z-lobed {except in I. acaulis). 



6. I. acaulis, Am. in Rook. Gomp. Bot. Mag. i. 325 ; glabrous, leaves 

 orbicular ovate-cordate or oblong, base acute rounded or cordate (not deefjly 

 2-lobed), standard obovate very concave, wings 2-partite terminal lobe 

 largest, spur very slender. Thwaites Enum. 68 ; Dalz. <fc Oihs. Brnnb. 

 Flor. 42; H.f. & T. in Jovn-n. Linn. Soc. iv. 118 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 

 p. 31. L scapiflora, Hook. Bot. Mag. t 3587 ; W. <& A. Prodr. 137, in part. 

 I. bulbosa, Moon Gat. 18. I. gracilis, Bedd. in Mad/r. Joum. ser, 2, iv. 69, 

 t. 7, f. 13. 



Mountains of the central province of Ceylon ; alt. 3-5000 ft., and of Malabab and 

 the CoNCAM ? 



Very variable in size and robustness, 2-12 in. high. Leaves 1-6 in. ; usually on 

 slender petioles, more or less crenate. Scape stout. Baeemes 1-4 in. ; bracts broad; 

 pedicels stout, 1 in. Flmoers J-l 4 in. broad ; sepals broadly ovate ; standai-d short, broader 

 upwards ; wings variable in the length and breadth of the segments, which are falcate and 

 truncate ; spur very slender, variable in length. Oapsule \-^ in., ellipsoid, acute at bcith 

 ends. — Thwaites suspects that the Ceylon plant cannot be scapiflora, because VVallich de- 

 scribes the spur as several inches long, but in some of our specimens it attains 3 inches. 

 Wight and Arnott, in the Prodromus, apparently confound acaulis with the true /. scapi- 

 flora. There is so much diversity in the foliage of specimens which the 2-partite 

 wing obliges me to refer to this species, that I cannot but repeat that this and the 

 three following may prove to be forms of one. Some have the orbicular reniforni 

 ■leaves of /. scapiflora, others the ovate-cordate and pilose leaves of /. rivalis (notably 

 Thwaites, No. 2595), others the elliptic leaves of I. rivalis, var. 2, and still others the 

 oblong leaves with rounded sinus of 1. Denisonii. The spi^cies of this group cannot be 

 determined from dried specimens. Beddome (Ic. PI. Ind. Or. p. 31) states that I. acaulis 

 and rivalis " could never be confounded except in dried specimens." 



7. X. scapiflora, Heyne in Hoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Gar ep,ii. 464; leaves 

 orbicular cordate or reniform sinus usually deep and broad above tip 

 rounded obscurely crenate serrate, standard large ortucular rhomboid, wings 

 with 3 broad segments, spur very slender. 



