450 XXXII. GEBANiACE^. (§ Balsaminese, Hook, f.) [Impatiens. 



ovate, lip boat-shaped witk a very short curved spur. I. Gardneriana, Wight 

 Herb, not of the Icones. 



Mountains of Malabah, Wight. 



Annual, erect, 6-1 in., rather stout ; branches opposite, ascending. Leaves 4-| in., 

 lower serratures almost setaceous ; stipules setaceous or obsolete. Pedicels rather 

 • shorter than the leaves. Flowers J in. diaru., remarkable for the length of the sepals, 

 apparently purple. Capsule erect, | in., acute at both ends, veiy turgid in the middle. 

 Seeds very few and large, subcompressed, rather broader than long, testa black shining. 

 — Ihis has much the habit of I. tomentosa, but it is glabrous with ovate very acutely 

 serrate leaves, and different flowers. * The pedicels show no disposition to be deflezed. 



25. X. salicifolia, H. f. & T. in Joum. Linn. Sac. iv. 124 ; erect, 

 stout, tomentose, leaves shortly petioled lanceolate serrate all opposite or 

 lower opposite upper whorled, peduncles solitary or fascicled on a common 

 peduncle sometimes 2-flowered, stipules subulate or 0, flowers large, sepals 

 subulate-lanceolate, standard obovate keeled, lip deeply saccate with, a 

 short stout hooked spur. 



Khasxa Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., Griffith, &o. 



Stem stout, 1-2 ft., with spreading opposite branches. Leaves 2-5 in., acuminate at 

 both ends, membranous, tomentose or glabrate on both surfaces, serratures small, the 

 basal long-oiliate. Inflorescence very variable, of slender 1-fiowered pedicels that are 

 solitary or fascicled or collected into a many-fiowered axillary cyme, with subulate brac- 

 teoles. Flowers dark purple, nearly triangular in profile, and | in. from the tip of the 

 spur to that of the standard. Capsule § in., elliptic-lanceolate. Seeds immature. — 

 /. soKo/bKa, Turcz., published in the Moscow Bulletin in the year previous to this 

 (in the Linnean Journal, 1860] is, I suspect, I. Balsamiiia. 



A m. — SUBVEE.TICrLLA.T.a!. 

 * Peduncles 1-flowered. See I. parvifoUa in **. . 



26. X. latifolia, Linn. ; tall, stout, erect, branched, quite glabrous, leaves 

 subopposite and whorled petioled ovate-lanceulate crenate, sepals ovate 

 cuspidate, standard broad 2-lobed spurred behind, wings broad 2-lobed, lip 

 boat-shaped, ^pur long slender straight or incurved. Wall. Cat. 4737 ; 

 W. <Ss A. Prodr. 1.38 in part; Dah. & Gils. Bomb. Fl. 44; H.f. & T. in 

 Joum. Linn. Soc. iv. 124 {excl. some syn.); Miq. III. Flor. Arch. Ind. 93. 

 I. cuspidata, W. & A. in Hook. Gomp. Bot. Mag. i. 321 ; Wight Ic. t. 741 ; 

 Thwaites Enum. 65. Balsamina latifolia, DC. Prodr. i. 686. — kheede Hort. 

 Mai. ix. t. 48. 



Mountains of the Western Peninsula, from Concan to Teavancok, alt. 3-7000 ft. ; 

 Ceylon, alt. 4-7000 ft. — Distrib. Java, fid. Miguel. 



A robust plant, annual ? 2-3 ft. high ; stem as thick aa the finger below, branches 

 alternate. Leaves membranous, 2-5 in., acuminate, base always acute, crenatures 

 often setose. Flowers 1-1| in. diam., pale purple, perianth rotate. Standard larger 

 than the wings, which have a large retuse basal and narrower terminal lobe ; lip green, 

 as is the spur. Capsule 1 in., elliptic, tnrgid, quite glabrous. Seeds few, large, oblong, com- 

 pressed ; testa thick, opaque, reticulate. — A Nilghiri specimen of Gardner's has long 

 cilia on the petiole and alternate leaves. Thwaiies remarks the variability of the large 

 lobes of the wings. I have not cited under this the /. latifolia of Bot. Mag. t, 5b'25, 

 which has very alternate leaves, and must hence be referred to l.flaccida. '1 hese species 

 are undistinguishable in herbarium specimens, though so different in the seeds. 



27. I. Xiescbenaultii, WaU. Cat. 4739 ; almost shrubby, leafy, 

 glabrous, leaves opposite and alternate spreading and recurved petioled 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate base acute crenate, sepals ovate acuminate, 



