444 XXXII. GERANiACEiE. (§ Balsaminese, Hook, f.) [Impatiens. 



Mountains of Malabar, Eeyne ; Babatud, Merh. Bottler. 



A specimen of this plant in Bottler's Herbarium, labelled by bimself " /. scapiflora, 

 Heyne," may, I assume, be regarded as authentic for the plant discovered by the 

 author of the species. It is certainly not the plant which bears this name in the 

 Linnean Joarnai (see I. Beddomei), which has a short spur and 2-partite wings ; it en- 

 tirely resembles round-leaved forms of I. acavlis, except in the 2-partit6 wings. The 

 leaves are evidently fleshy, obscurely crenate, with radiating nerves ; the bracts thick, 

 and scape and pedicels stout. Flowers 1 in. diam. ; segments of wings recurved-faloate 

 linear, rather broad, tips rounded. 



8. Z. rivalls, Wight in Madr. Jmirn. v. 13, t. 8 ; Ic. t. 751 ; leaves 

 ovate-cordate with an acute sinus or a rounded base or elliptic and acute at 

 both ends crenate-serrate usually hairy above, standard broader than long 

 vaulted, wings 3-partite, spur very long. If./. & T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. 

 iv. 119, 



Mountains of the Cohcan, Oanaea, Malabar, .and Tbavancor, alt. 5-8000 ft. 



Veiy variable in stature, 6-18 in. high. Leaves extremely variable in form and 

 pubescence, feather-nerved, never orbicular-renifonn with a broad sinus as in Z scapi- 

 flora and Denisonii. — Except by\the wings I do not see how some specimens are to be 

 distinguished from 1. acavlis, but Beddome says they " never could be confounded ex- 

 cept in dried examples;" he reduces his verrucosa to this species (Ic. Pl.Ind. Or. p. 31). 



Var. 1, leaves 2-5 in. ovate-oblong haiiy acute, base rounded or cordate. Wight 

 Ic. t. 757. 



Vak. 2. leaves 4-8 in. elliptic acute at both ends, petiole as long very stout. — 

 Concan, Stocks. 



' Vab. 3. leaves 3—4 in. ovate-cordate, wings with a batch of warts on the upper sur- 

 face. I. verrucosa, Bedd. in Mad/r. Joum. iv. 69, t. 7, f. 9. 



9. X. Denisonii, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. p. 30, 1. 151 ; leaves ovate-cordate 

 obtuse or acute crenate pilose above base deeply 2-lobed sinus broad, 

 scape and pedicels very long and slender, standard broadly ovate vaulted, 

 ■wings 3-partite bearded on the inner face, lateral segment with a filiform 

 appendage enclosed in the long recurved spur. 



NiLGHiRi Mts. ; abundant in the Sisparah ghat, alt. 4-5000 ft., Beddome. 



Apparently very near to I. rivalis, differing in the deeply 2-lobed base of the leaf, 

 smaller flowers, (| in. diam.) with much narrower and longer segments to the wings, 

 and in the curious filiform appendages of the latter that descend -into the spur as in /. 

 racemosa, and which are no doubt concerned in the process of fertilization. I suspect 

 that Herb. Wight. Kew Distrib. 310 is referable to this, not to /. acavlis. 



A n.— Oppositifolia 

 * Spur as long as the flower or longer. 



10. X. cbinensis, Linn.; glabrous, stem angled, leaves all opposite 

 subsessile linear-oblong or obovate, stipules setaceous, sepals linear, 

 standard .orbicular, wings semi-obovate entire base auricled, spur very 

 slender incurved. Bah. <& Gibs. Bomb. Ft. 42 ; H.f. & T. in Joum. Linn. 

 Soc. iv. 119. I. fasciculata, Lamk Did. i. 359 : Wight Ic. t. 748; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 138 ; Ilooh. Bot, Mag. t. 4631. I. heterophylla. Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. 

 ed. Carey, iL 458 ; Cat. 4748. I. setacea, Goleb. in Hook. Eocot Flc/r. t. 137. 

 Balsamina fasciculata and B. chinensis, BC. Prodr. i. 686. — Rheede Hort. 

 Mai. ix. t. 47. 



Bhotan, Griffith; mountains of the Western Peninsula, from the Concan to Tra- 

 vancor, alt. 5-8000 ft ; K-hasia Mts., alt. 3-5000 ft. ; Bikma, WaUieh ; Tenasbbkim, 

 Heifer; Malacca, Griffith.— DiwtyiiB. China. 



A very variable and beautiftil plant. Stem 4-16 in., erect from a tooting prostrate 



