452 XXXII. GEEANiACE^. (§ Balsaminese, Hook, f.) [Impatims. 



on the inner margin, lobes rounded-oblong, sometimes elongate ; lip very variable, Bome- 

 timea conoid and produced into a slender curved spur, at others obtuse, abruptly spurred, 

 0]' gibbous above the spur. Oapsvle and seeds as in (925 /. tripetala. — The figures in 

 the Exotic Flora represent etiolated flowers. 



31. X. flavida, 11. f. & T. inJoum. Linn. Soc. iv. 127; erect, 

 quite glabrous, leaves opposite and S-nately whorled all long-petioied 

 ovate-laiiceolate minutely serrulate, stipules obsolete, flowers 2-4rSubum- 

 belled yellow, bracts recurved^standard obovate, wings small, lip saccate 

 obtuse, spur stout incurved. Wall. Cat. 4763 (with I. trilobata). 



Eastern Beksal; Silhet and Cachae, in woods, WdlUeh, &c.; Mishmi Mts. and 

 Upper Assam, Griffith. 



A branched annual, not easily distinguished in a dried state from states of I. trUo- 

 bnta, except by the leaves being more constantly quite glabrous above, the stipules being 

 obsolete, and the leaves not ciliate towards the base. Peduncles often opposite and 

 usually erect ; bracts apparently always recui-red. Flowers f in. from the base of the 

 lip to the tip of the standard, dirty gamboge-yellow ; spur thick, hooked ; wings with 2 

 rounded lobes, the terminal purplish. 



32. I. verticlllata, Wight in Madr. Jour, v, 15; glabrous, erect, 

 leaves opposite and in whorls of 3 and 6 short-petioled narrow-lanceolate, 

 stipules subulate, flowers umbelied, wings broad 2-lobed, terminal lobe 

 elongate, lip boat-shaped with a long very slender spur. H.f. ds T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 129. 



Mountains of Malabar; in gravdly beds of streams, at Sivagherry, Wight; Cochih, 

 Johnstone. 



Herbaceous, difiiise ; etem 6--18 in^, subsimple, nated below, swollen at the joints, terete. 

 Leaves 4-6 in,, usually 4-6 in a whorl, much narrowed at both ends, ciliate-serrate. 

 Peduncles shorter than the leaves, 2-ao -flowered, bracts subulate. Flowers f in. diam., 

 crimson, perianth subrot-ate ; standard suborbicular-oblong ; wings deeply 2-lobed, 

 terminal lobe elongate, dimidiate-oblong ; lip boat-shaped ; spur |-1 in., nearly straight 

 or with an iucury^d tip, very slender indeed. Capsule erect or inclined (oblong obtusely 

 5-angled, Wight). 



33. 1. Goug'WJ, Wi^U ni.i. 16,0; Ic. t. 1603; small, slender, quite 

 glabrous, leaves inostly opposite petioled ovate crenate-serrate, peduncles 

 capillary viscid exceeding the leaves 4^6-flowered, flowers minute, standard 

 obovate retuse, wings 2-lobed, lobes short truncate and retuse. lip boat- 

 shaped with a straight spur shorter than the flower. H.f.&T.im, Jowm. 

 Linn. Soc. iv. 130, J. pjilniensis, £edd. in Madr. Journ. in. 176. L anamal- 

 layensis, Bedd. in, Madr. Journ N.s. iv. 68, t. 7, f . 8 ; Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 30, 

 t. 150. I. circaeoides, Turoz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1863, L 594. 



Mountains of Malabar and Travascor ; Nilghiri Mts. at Pyearrah, Oough; 

 Anamallay and Pnbey Mts. by streams, alt. 7-8000 ft., Beddome. 



A very slender glabrous simple or branched annual, 4^8 in. high, supporting itself 

 amongst herbage ( Wight). Le,aves {-% in., petiole half as long or longer, subacute, 

 base rounded, nerves few, serratui-e? not ciliate ; stipules obsolete. Pedundes terminal, 

 often numerous. _ Flowers ^-\ fei. djam., 4-8, umbelied, pink ; bracts minute, seta- 

 ceoas ; sepals minute, falcate ■; standard mucronate in the retuse apex ; wings with 

 very variable lobes, the lower 2-lobed according to Beddome ; spar shorter than the 

 tlower. Capsule A in., erect, ellipsoid, acute at both ends. Seeds few, clothed with 

 hairs. — Beddome (Ic. PI. ln.d. Or. p. 32) identifies his /. mscosa with Goughii; but his 

 .specimens of/ anamallayensis are certainly identical with Goughii, UTiiviscosa appears 

 to me to be a d fferent plant, with a long spur ; his figure of anamallayensis represents 

 a coarser plant than his specimen, with very hairy upper surface of the leaves, which, 

 however, he describes as having but few distant hairs: he further describes it in his 

 Icope* Jnot in the Mfldr. Jour.) as having a ligulate appendage to the wings, which is 



