448 XXXII. GEHANIACE^. (§ Balsamineoe, Hook, f.) 



know I. tenella (lo. PI. Ind. Or. p. 32). Upon the whole, I am disposed to separate the 

 varieties as follows : — 



Vae. I. inconiipicua proper; stem 4-8 in. usually more robitst, leaves ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate petiolate strungfy serrate, peduncles usually short. I. inconspicua, Wight Ic. 

 t. 970. 



Vae. 2. pusUla; smaller, lower leaves more or less petioled lanceolat-e and serrate, 

 upper longer narrow subsessile remotely serrate. I. pusilla, Meyne in Wall. Cat. 

 474i). 



\ AE. 3. jiliformia; slender and much branched, leaves subsessile very long slender 

 reriotely seri'ate the lower sometimes petioled and lanceolate. I. filiformis, W. & A. 

 Prodr. 140 (a small few-flowered form). 



Vah. 4. ramoswsima ; robust, much branched, leaves uniform short sessile oblong 

 obtuse at both ends, lip with a very minute spur. I. ramosissima, Dalz. in Hook. Kew 

 Joum. Bot. iii. 230. 



19. X. oppoBltifolia, Linn.; erect, leaves subsessile narrow-linear 

 elongate remotely serrate, or the lower oblong or linear-oblong and petioled, 

 stipules subulate, pedicels quite glabrous, sepals linear acuminate, wings 

 with a broadly-obovate clawed terminal lobe and a small lateral one, lip 

 conical ending in a short stout incurved spur. Wight Ic. t. 883 ; W. ds A. 

 Frodr. 139 ; Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 43 ; H.f.ds T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iv. 

 121. I. rosmarinifoUa. Retz. Obs. v. 29; Arn. in Hook Convp. Bot. Mag. i. 

 325. Balsamina rosmarinifoUa and oppositifolia, DC. Frodr. i. 686. 



Mountains of Malabar, Canara, and the CoNOAif, alt. 3-5000. CEyLON, abundant 

 fri m the sea-level to 7060 ft., Tlaoaitea. 



This is another plant so closely allied to I. tenella and inconspicma, that I do 

 not see how the.v are always distinguishable, in a dried state at any rate, except by the 

 spur and glabrous pedicels. Ceylon specimens are remarkably uniform, 12-18 in., erect, 

 simple or sparingly branched, stipulate with very narrow leaves lJ-3 in., flowers J-f 

 in. long (from standard to lip of wings), and a short stout incurved spur ; but Peninsular 

 specimens have more often broadly oblong shortly-petioled leaves, sometimes rounded at 

 the tip. Eottler's specimens are excessively slender and flaccid. The spur is tolerably 

 imiform in all, being horned, and the peduncle^ invariably glabrous; the capsule and 

 seed are quite like those of /. inconspicua. I had (in Linn. Joum.) referred to this 

 ■Wight's flgure of 7. rosmannifolia, t. 750, which 1 am now disposed to refer to /. teneUa 

 or inconspicua. 



20. X. reticulata, Wall. PI. As. Ra/r. 19, t. 19; Cat. 4750; glabrous, 

 stem erect from a creeping base fleshy . simple or branched, leaves all 

 opposite upper subsessile linearroblong acute cuspidate-serrate base retuse, 

 1( wer often shortly petioled, sepals narrow linear, standard ovate acute, 

 wings clawed, claw with a hooked process (lateral lobe) on each margin, 

 terminal lobe orbicidar clawed, Hp funnel-shaped narrowed into a short 

 incurved spur. 



Pegc near Rangoon, WaUich; Moulmein, Lohb. 



Stem, 6-12 in. ; branches opposite or alternate, obscnrely 4-angular. Leaves 1-1 J in.; 

 lower often narrow-obovate acute, ^''lowers 4 in. diam., rosy, nodding ; fruiting pe- 

 duncles deflexed. Capsule J in., ellipsoid, turgid in the middle, narrowed at both ends 

 and beaked at the apex,_ glabrous. Seeds few, subglobose, testa black shining. — Very 

 nearly allied to I. oppositifolia, with which I have confounded it in Joum. Linn. Soc. ; 

 but the character of the 2 small lateral falcate recurved lateral lobes on each wing, is very 

 remarkable. I describe them from Wallioh's figure, and assume Lobb's plant to he the 

 same, a point which can only be determined from living specimens. 



21. X. Xiawii, H. f. ds T. in Jowm. Linn. Soc. iv. 122; erect, much 

 branched, leaves short sessile or subsessile ovate or oblong subserrate 

 sparsely scabrid above, stipules 0, pedicels with a line of hairs, sepaJs 



