^ims.] xxxu. GERANiACE^. (§ BalsaminesB, Hook, f,) 451 



standard 2-lobed spurred at the back, wings 2-lobed, lip boat-shaped, spur 

 slender incurved. W. & A. Prodr. 136; Wight Ic. t. 970, his; H.f. & T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 125. Balsamina lischgnaultii, BC. Prodr. i. 686. 



Mountains of Malabar and Tbatancok, alt. 3-7000 ft. 



A very near ally of J. kiSifoKor, , but I think , distinct, especially in the excessively 

 branched and leafy habit, much smaller, crowded!,, usually recurved leaves, and smaller 

 flowers and capsules. De Candolle is, no doubt,, wrong in assigning Ceylon as a 

 habitat, except, indeed, he took I. laCifolia for this. Lesohenault, its discoverer, col- 

 lected in the Peninsula. 



28. 1. lucida, Heyne in Wall:. Cat. 47:3&; nearly glabrous, flaccid, 

 stem very slender, leaves, chiefly opposite and whorled petioled ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate crenate, peduncles very sleoder, flowers small, 

 sepals ovate acuminate, standard suborbicular beaked entire, wings 2-lobed, 

 lip boat-shaped with a long incurved slender spur. 1. latifolia, W. & A. 

 Prodr. 138. 



Mountains of the Westbhh Peninsula, from theCbsoAN to Malabar. 



Numerous specimens of this from Law, Stocks, Wight and others, show, it to be a 

 very different species imtsi I.latifelia, being much smaller in all, its partSr4-8in. 

 high, sparingly branched, very slender and flaccid ; with a small flower ^ in., diam., and 

 a small entire orbicular standard. The crenatures of the leaf, which is sparsely hairy 

 above, are rarely setigerous. A specimen in Eottler's Herbarium bears the name 

 lucida, Heyne, and station Courtallum, spelled Kuttalam. This may be a foi-m of 

 I.flaecida, with the leaves .sometimes opposite. 



** Peduncles 2-cc rarely \-flvwered. See I. fimbriata and janthina m 

 Avii. 



29. I. radicans, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 476.3 ; pubescent, stem .simple 

 erect leafy, leaves opposite subsessile stipulate lanceolate acuminate serrate, 

 peduncles horizontal, flowers 1-4 large, standard galeate, wings ,snmll, 

 lip saccate obtuse, spur short hooked. H.f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 iv. 126. 



, Khasia Mts., in marshes, alt. 4-6000 ft., Wallich, Griffith, &c. 



A beautiful species, 10-18 in,, more or less crisply hairy on the stem and leaves 

 above, rarely glabrate. Stem square. Leawks 1-3 in., sometimes ovate- or oblong- 

 lanceolate, the serratures often eiliate, pale beneath ; stipules of 2 fascicles of soft gland- 

 tipped setse. Pedunclei slender, shorter than the leaves, with as many lanceolate brac- 

 teoles as there are pedicels. Flowers nearly 1 in. across and as deep, purple ; sepals 

 Very variable, dimidiate-ovate or lanceolate, straight or falcate ; standard with a dorsal 

 conical obtuse horn or gibbosity ; wings 2-lobed ; lip very obtuse, longer than broad ; spur 

 incurved. Cajpside | in., glabrous, ellipsoid, turgid in the middle, Seeis oblong, com- 

 .pressed ; testa pale, membranous. 



30. X. trilobata, Caleb, in Hook Exot. Flor. ii. 1. 141 ; tall, alternately 

 branched, almost glabrous, leaves Opposite and alternate all or the lower 

 only long-petioled lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate crenate-serrate stipulate, 

 peduncles horizontal, flowers 2-5 large, sepals minute subsetaceous, standard 

 .©beordatfi, lip saccate obtuse or conical, spur long or short. Wall. 

 Cat. 4762 A, and 4763 (Pundua) ; E.f.& T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 126. 



Tropical Sikkim Himalaya, alt, 2-4000 ft., and Khasia Mts., alt. 3-5000 ft. 



A very variable and beautiful species, 1 -2 ft. Leaves membranous, sparsely hairy 

 above, lower 2-5 in. usually long-petioled elliptic-lanceolate long-acuminate crenate, 

 the "upper more often sessile lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, all often eiliate towards the 

 base ; stipules usually of large tufts of soft cilia. Peduncles very slender, shorter than 

 the leaves; bracts minute or 0. i^Zoiocw J-f in, from base of lip "to tip of standard, 

 which is homed at the back, bi-ight violet-purple ; wings 2-lobed, but not deeply, notched 



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