474 XXXII. GERANiACE-E. (§ Balsaminese, Hook, f.) [Impatiem. 



acuminate crenate, peduncles solitary axillary very long slender arcuate, 

 raceme terminal 3-5-flowered, bracts subulate caducous, flowers 1 in. 

 yellow, sepals 2-4 small, standard orbicular apiculate, wings with a long 

 narrow twisted terminal lobe, lip trumpet-shaped, spur slender hooked. 



Temperate Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 8-10,000 ft., /. D. B. 



A very distinct plant, 3-4 ft., with scattered uniform leaves and long axillary sub- 

 horizontal peduncles, 2-5 in. long. Stipules 0. Stem subtetragonous. Leaves 3-5 

 in., meinbranoas, rather falcate ; petiole {-^ in. Flowers loosely racemed, pale yellow, 

 unspotted; buds rounded at the apex. Sepals sometinjes 4, ovate-lanceolate; lateral 

 wing-lobe rounded, terminal 1 in., broadly subulate. Capsule not seen. — I have not 

 cited any other habitat for this species but Sikkim ; the Kumaon plants cited in Journ. 

 Linn! Soc. being imperfect. In the form of the flower it is most allied to I. laxifiora 

 and its allies. 



105. X. urticifolia, Wall, in Eoah. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey, ii. 457 ; Cat. 4768; 

 simple or sparingly branched, quite glabrous, leaves large lower long- 

 petioled elliptic-ovate caudate-acuminate coarsely crenate, peduncles ax- 

 illary and subterminal very slender arched 3-5-fl(3wered, bracts persistent 

 slender, flowers large pur|)le or yellow, sepals obliquely ovate, standard 

 orbicular, wings 2-lobed, lip shortly saccate, spur short incurved or hooked. 

 I. urticifolia, vars. a and y, H. f. <k T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 152. 



Temperate Himalaya, Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 10-12,000 ft.,/. D.B. 



Stem 2-3 ft., usually slender, and hardly branched. Leaves 4^6 in., upper sessile, 

 membranous, , tips long and quite entire; nerves many spreading, very slender; crena- 

 tures with subbasal bristles ; petiole 1-3 in. ; stipular glands sessile or pedioelled or 0. 

 Fedkmcles 2-5 ifl., usually axillary, sometimes subterminal and clustered, always very 

 slender, horizontal, and more or less arched; divided, as it were, at the top into 3-5- 

 filiform pedicels, which, as well as the bracts (nearly \ in.), are very slender, and do not 

 spread. Flowers yellow according to Wallich, white or pale purple with red streaks, 

 in the Sikkim specimen, ^ in. diam. ; ^epals obliciue, long-pointed ; standard obscurely 

 keeled ; wings with broad lateral lobes and elongate oblong terminal ones ; spur almost 

 as broad as deep, apiculate, base contracted bnt rounded, spur stout, obtuse. Capsule 

 1 in., inclined, linear, acuminate, glabrous. Seeds unripe. — This resembles a good 

 deal /. amphorata, but is distinguished by its long, arched, filiform, usually horizontal, 

 peduncles, which do not bear a raceme, but as it were divide into pedicels, and by its 

 long slender bracts. It is most nearly allied to /. longines and J. cymhifera. Wallich'a 

 description of the flower is imperfect, and I am unable to examine the wings of the 

 dried specimens. 



106. X, cymbifera, Hookf.; slender, branched, quite glabrous, leaves 

 petioled elliptic-ovate or lanceolate caudate-acuminate sharply crenate- 

 serrate, peduncles axillary and subterminal much shorter than the leaves 

 filiform 1-4-flowered, bracts large caducous, flowers large lilac, sepals large 

 orbicular-ovate, standard orbicular gibbous behind, lateral wing-lobes 

 rounded, terminal elongate-oblong conniving, lip broadly and deeply boat- 

 shaped rounded below, spur 0. I. urticifolia iS, //. /. <& T. in Journ. Linn. 

 (Soc. iv. 152. 



Inner valkys of the Sikkim Himalaya ; Laohoong river, alt. 8-10,000 ft., /. D. M. 



Stem 2-3 ft., green with pale red-purple blotches ; branches slender. Leaves 4^8 in., 

 membranous, tip quite entire, crenatures or serratures very shallow, with a terminal or 

 subterminal bristle ; nerves many, arched, slender ; petiole 4-J in., winged ; stipular 

 glands sessile. Peduncles 1^-3 in., spreading, capillary; bracts J in., Loatshaped with 

 long points; pedicels divaricating. Flowers 1-1^ in. long, pale lilac spotted with red; 

 sepals nearly. as long as the standard, acuminate, green on one (the upper) side of the 

 midrib, lilac on the other ; standard much vaulted, hardly, keeled ; tei'minal wing-lobes 

 horizontal, obtuse, conniving and parallel ;Mip | in. long, ovoid in outhne,' apiculate, 



