Impatiens.] xxxii. GERANiACEffi. (§ Balsamineae, Hook, f.) 455 



minute, standard small elliptic acuminate with a long beak, wings very 

 small 2-lobed included in the lip, lip saccate, spur short involute. H.f. tb 

 T. m Joum. Linn. 8oc. w. 132. I. glandulifera var. ? Am, in Hook Ct/mp. 

 BoU Mag. i 323. 



Mountains of Ceylon, alt. 5-7000 ft. 



Stem as thick as the thumb, 10-12 ft. high, naked helow. Leaves very like those of 

 I glandulifera, but even larger, and petioles as in it, with pedicelled glands. Flowers 

 J in. long, orange-red, quite glabrous, with a remarkably small beaked standard and 

 wings. Capsule I in., very turgid, straight, beaked, quite glabrous. Seeds not ripe. — 

 A noble species in habit and foliage. 



41. X, repens, Moon Cat. 18 ; glabrous, creeping, diffusely branched, 

 leaves long-petioled ovate cordate or reniform, pedicels very long, standard 

 orbicular spurred behind, wing-lobes short broad, lip subconoid, spur short 

 incurved. Wight III. i. 160, t. 61 ; Hook Bot. Mag. t. 4404; H.f. & T. in 

 Jou7%. Linn. Soc. iv. 132. 



Southern and Central parts of CETLOif, at no great elevation. 



A slender creeping much branched and perfectly glabrous plant. Leaves 4-| in. 

 diam., acute; petiole 1 in. Flowers yellow, | in. diam. Capsule and seeds un- 

 known. 



42. X. leptopoda, Am. in Hook Gomp. Bot. Mag. i. 321 ; erect, 

 branched, quite glabrous, slender, leaves long-petioled ovate or lanceolate 

 acuminate .crenate-serrate, pedicels long axillary subsolitary, flowers 

 small, standard obcordate spurred at the back, wings 2-lobed broad hori- 

 zontal, lip boat-shaped, spur long or short. Thwaites Enum. 65 ; H.f. & T. 

 in Joum. Linn. Hoc. i. 132. I. brevicornu and I. gibbosa, Arn. I.e. 



Mountain woods of Cetloh, alt. 5-8000 ft. 



A^flaooid variable herb, 1-3 ft. high ; stem often prostrate and rooting at the base, 

 sometimes almost woody below. Leaves 1-3 in., membranous, sometimes ciliate to- 

 wards the base, young usually puberulous, nerves many ; petiole very variable in length, 

 sometimes with stipitate glands. Flowers about J in. diam.; pedicels very slender; 

 perianth rotate, rosy; sepals small, oblong-lanceolate; lobes of wings subequal, flat'; 

 spur sometimes J in., and very slender, at others reduced to a mere tubercle. Capsules 

 J-4'in., erect, ellipsoid, beaked. Seeds immature. 



43. X. trunoata« Thwaites Enum. 66; weak, slender, diffusely branched, 

 leaves 1-1 J in. petioled ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate serrate sparsely 

 pubescent above, pedicels 1-3 slender bracteate and small, flowers pubescent, 

 standard orbicular cuspidate, wings unequally 2-lobed spreading, lip conoid, 

 sjmr short curved. H.f. & T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iv. 133. 



Mountain woods of Ceylon, alt. 4-6000 ft. 



Closely allied to /. leptopoda, and probably a variety of that plant, with diffuse stems 

 and hairy leaves peduncle and flowers, but of which Thwaites enumerates a variety, 

 subglaira, which is almost glabrous. YovMg capsules pilose, Thw. 



44. X. pendula, Heyne in Wall. Gat. 4744; very small, erect, slender, 

 branched, almost glabrous, leaves i-j in. petioled elliptic-ovate or subcor- 

 date acute remotely serrate, pedicels solitary fruiting deflexed, flowers 

 minute glabrous, standard spurred at the back, lip concave not spurred. 

 W. & A. Prodr. 137 ; H.f. k T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iv. 133. 



Mountains of Malabar, at Bababood, Heyne. 



The specimens of this do not suffice for a good description ; it is evidently closely 

 allied to 1. inconspiaua, tenella, and other species with minute Bowers, opposite leaves 

 and deflexed fruiting peduncles. Stem 4^6 in. ; branches with a faint line of pubescence 



