458 XXXII. GERANiACE^. (§ Balsaminese, Hook, f.) 



acuminate crenate-serrulate, pedicels axillary solitary or few slender, 

 sepals minute, standard broadly obcordate, wings 2-lobed spreading, lobes 

 obovate lateral rounded terminal retuse or 2-lobed, lip boat-shaped, spur 

 very long straight and slender, capsule puberulous. I. flaccida, var. P, H. f. 

 & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 134. » 



Tehasseeim, at Moulmein, Loib. 



Very similar to /. flacdda, but the lobes of the wings are longer and narrower, 

 the standard is obcordate and not spurred behind, and the capsme is smaller and 

 puberulous. 



52. X. puloherrima, Bah' in Book. Land. Journ. Bat. ii. 37 ; stout, 

 succulent, erect, glabrous, leaves petioled ovate-lanceolate acuminate, 

 pedicels 2-3 erect, sepals 2-fid minute, standard orbicular notched or 

 spurred at the back, wings very broad 2-fid, lip boat-shaped or conoid, spur 

 long stout curved, capsule glabrous, seeds large obovate rugose. Hook. Mot. 

 Mag. t. 4615 ; H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 134 ; Balz. <Ss Gibs. Bomb. 

 Flor. 44. 



Warree jungle in the Southern Cokcan, Dahell. 



Stem 1^-2 ft., simple or branched. Leaves 3-5 in., flaccid, ciliate towards the base, 

 glabrous or with a few scattered hairs above ; petiole 1-3 in., naked or with stipitate 

 glands. Pedicels 2-3 in., slender, spreading. Flowers 14-2 in. diam., rose- or violet- 

 purple ; wings spreading, flat, variable in shape ; lip small ; spur 2 iu., rather stout, 

 incurved. Capsule 4 in., very turgid. Seeds 2-8, subcompressed, testa very thick. 

 — A very fine species, allied to I. fiacdda in the flowers, but the seeds are wholly 

 different. 



53. I. Kenslowiana, Am. inT'Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 322; 

 perennial % stem very stout almost shrubby nodose scarred, leaves petioled 

 ovate or lanceolate serrate acuminate hirsute, pedicels subsolitary erect, 

 sepals large broad, standard orbicular or obovate, wings broad flat 2-partite, 

 segments 2-lobed, lip small, spur very long incurved slender, capsule 

 glabrous or pilose. Thwaites Enum. 65 \ H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 iv. 135. I. albida, Wight in Madr. Journ. v. 7, t. 1 ; Ic. t. 743. 



Mountains of Malabar, clefts of rocks near Courtallum, alt. 2-7000 ft., Wight, &o. 

 Ceylon, in the Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft., on rocks. 



Stem 8-16 in., as thick as the thumb, woody, sometimes so closely covered with scars 

 as to be nodose, simple or branched. Leaves 3-5 in., crowded at the ends of the thick; 

 branches, sen'atures fine or coarse, both surfaces usually hirsute, sometimes glabrate ; 

 petiole J-3 in., naked or glandular. Pedicels 2-5 in., stout, 'glabrous or pubescent. 

 I'^lowers 1-2 in. diam., white or pale pink ; sepals remarkably large, broadly ovate, 

 acuminate ; standard winged at the back (in W ight's figure) ; wings with very broad, 

 flat, semi-obovate lobes ; spur stout or slender, l-lj in. Capsule |-1 in., rather slender. 

 Seeds not ripe. — The habit and large sepals and capsule are exoelleut characters of this 

 plant. 



A V. — Lateeifloe^. 



54. X. bella, H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 138 ; diffuse, stem 

 short densely pubescent creeping below, leaves broadly ovate or orbicular 

 crenate, petiole slender, peduncle pubescent l-2-flowered bracteate in the 

 middle, flowers large yellow, sepals large ovate, standard orbicular-obovate 

 gibbous or bluntly spurred at the back, terminal lobe of wing elongate 

 obovate, lip conical saccate narrowed into a long incurved spur. 



Khabia Mts., in marshes at the Kala Pane, alt. 5000 ft., Oriffith, &o. 

 A small species, 6-10 in., growing in loose tufts ; stem rather stout, rooting much at 

 the base, glandular and almost tomentose with crisped hairs. Leaves 1-3 in., some- 



