472 XXXII. GEHANiACE^. (§ Balsaminese, Hook, f.) [Impatiens. 



minate coarsely crenate upper sessile, stipules setose, peduncles 1-2, sepals 

 large ovate-cordate, standard orbicular spurred Ijehind, terminal lobe of 

 ■wings very long pendulous, lip subcampanulate, spur short spiral, capsule 

 long slender. 



Temperate and subtropical woods of the Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 4^7000 ft. 



Stem 8-10 in., slender, sparingly branched. Leaves membranous, 1-3 in., narrowed 

 into the slender cyliiidrical petiole, apiculate in the crenatures. Peduncles sometimes 

 2 and connate at the base, ebracteate, very slender, shorter or longer than the leaves. 

 Flowers 1^ in. from the spur to the tip of the apiculate stamlard ; wings violet-purple, 

 the terminal lobe sometimes 1 J in. long, elliptic-oblong; lip deeply conoidal, inflated, 

 narrowed into the spiral spur, pale rose-coloured streaked with purple. Capsule 1 in., 

 very slender. Seeds small, globose, puberulous. — A lovely plant, closely allied to 

 I. arguta, but the flowers are almost invariably solitary, and it wants the curious 

 united bracts. 



98. I. porrecta, Wall. Cat. 7275 ; slender, quite glabrous, stem simple 

 creeping below, leaves petioled ovate or lanceolate acuminate serrulate 

 2-glandular near the base, peduncles 2-3-flowered, bracts setaceous gland- 

 tipped, sepals ovate-lanceolate, standard orbicular spurred at the back, ter- 

 minal lobe of wings elongate pendulous, lip large conoid deep narrowed 

 into a rather long abruptly hooked spur. H. f. <Ss T. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. iv. 138. 



Khasia Mts., WalKch; in marshes at Kala Panee, alt. 5-6000 ft., /. X>. S. & T. T. 



/Sfem simple, 12-18 in, succulent. Leaves 14-24 in., membranous, many-nerved; 

 petiole I-I4 in. Pedunde with the pedicels shorter than the leaves. Flowers large, 

 14 in. long, pale yellow or straw-coloured, beautifully striated with red; standard and 

 wings as in /. dinailor, but the lip is very different, being almost triangular in profile, 

 narrowed into a spur as long as itself. Capsule very immature, apparently not more 

 than 4 in., acuminate. 



99. X. scabrida, BG. Prodr. i. 687 ; glabrous or pubescent, leaves 

 ovate or lanceolate acuminate serrate, stipules of two large glands, pe- 

 duncles short 2-6-flowered, bracts setaceous, sepals broad ovate-cordate, 

 standard very large orbicular spurred behind, wings smaller, lip conoidal 

 as long as the incurved, spur. Wall. Gat. 4769 ; WigJit Ic. t. S23 ; H.f. & T. 

 in Journ. Linn. Hoc. iv. 136. I. tricornis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 9 ; Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4051. I. cristata and I. calycina, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. 

 Carey, ii. 456 and 463. I. Hamiltoniana, Don Prodr. 204. 



Shady' woods of the temperate Himalaya, from Konawae to Bhotan, alt. 6-10,000 ft. 



Robust, often much branched, 3-5 ft., rarely quite glabrous. Leaves 2-6 in., sessile 

 or narrowed into the naked petiole. Flowers 1 in., golden-yellow, spotted with red, 

 sometin^s panicled, generally in several axils ; peduncle 1-2 in., pedicels as long ; 

 standard cordate at the base, lateral lobe of wings short rounded, terminal much smaller, 

 oblong. Capside 1-2 in., slender, straight, ribbed, glabrous or puberulous. Seeds ■ 

 1-seriate, oblong, scarcely tubercled. — De Candolle describes the spur as very long 

 (longissimus), which is certainly not the case. I have no Sikkim specimen, but have 

 a figure of the plant amongst Caihcart's drawings, which has 4 lateral sepals. 



100. I. tropsBolifolia, Griff, mss. ; nearly glabrous, stem stout succu- 

 lent branched, leaves petioled elliptic-obovate acuminate crenate-serruJate, 

 peduncles succulent 2-3-floweredj flowers large yellow, sepals broad orbi- 

 cular-ovate, sta;udard orbicular thick green with a dorsal spur, wings veiy 

 large clawed 2-lobed with an inflexed thickened auricle on the inner 

 margin, lip funnel-shaped narrowed into a stout incurved spur. 



MisHMi Hills, Oriffiih. 



Annual, a foot high; stem diaphanous, flexuous. Leaves 2-34 in., rather thick, 



