478' XXXII. GERANiACE^. (§ Balsaminese, Hook, f.) [Impafiens. 



short internodes (1 in.), swollen nodes, leafiness, very long narrow leaves, few flowers 

 terminating the short peduncles, and great length of spnr. Amongst his distributed 

 specimens under this name, however, are /. racemosa, laxifloraf and others. He has 

 attached a mss. ticket of " /. longieomu, Wall." (along witli the lithogi'aphed Catalogue 

 ticket) to the original specimen, thus identifving this plant with that he described in 

 the Carey Edition of Buxburgh's Flora Indica. In that work Wallich says he has 

 received the same plant from Western Nipal, gathered by Dr. Govan ; but there are no 

 specimens of Govan 's in his Herbarium, and I suspect that laxifiora or racemosa is 

 here alluded to, which he has distributed under the same number, and which De Can- 

 doUe probably describes as var, a. I. leptoceras resembles I. insignis, but the leaves 

 are longer, less coriaceous, and want the strong tramsverse nervules so well marked in 

 that plant ; the peduncles are moreover much shorter, the flowers and sepals much 

 smaller, the tip is not horned at the points, and the spur is far longer. De Candolle 

 describes two varieties, a and ,8, with peduncles respectively longer and shorter than 

 the leaves. The present plant is his /3 I suppose ; his o being probably I. laxifiora. 

 I have, however, retained his name, as being in accordance with Wallich's determi- 

 nation. 



114. I. tuberculata, H.f. <fc T.inJowm. Linn.Soc.vv. 155; erect, 

 branched, quite glabrous, leaves shortly petioled elliptic acuminate crenate, 

 peduncles erect and pedicels short, bracts minute caducous, flowers small 

 purplish, sepals falcate, standard orbicular, wings exserted broad obtuse, 

 lip boat-shaped with a very short spur, capsule short clavate tubercled. 



Temperate and Subalpine Sikkim Hijialata, alt. 10-13,000 ft., J. D.B. 



Stem 2-3 ft., succulent. Leaves 2-4 in., more or less fascicled as if whorled at the 

 ends of the branches, rather thick, bristles of the serratures basal, nerves many, diverg- 

 ing; petiole J -4 in. ; stipular glands obscure or 0. Peduncles 1-1 4 in. ; racemes not 

 interrupted, 4-8flowered ; pedicels \-^ in. Flowers I in. diam. ; sepals much curved, 

 very small ; standard orbicular, very concave, keeled at the back ; lateral wing-lobes 

 orbicular, terminal produced (I think); lip apiculate; stem broad short. Capsule 

 J in., erect or horizontal, 5-angled, valves with 2 series of pustules or tubercles; tip 

 obtuse, with a curved spur or beak. Seeds \ in., oblong, narrow, compressed ; testa 

 spongy, wrinkled, brown. — A very well marked species, by the shortly petioled leaves 

 ■with basal bristles in the crenatures,. short peduncles and pedicels, peculiar capsules 

 and large seeds. 



115. I. stenantha, Hooh.f. ; tall, much branched, quite glabrous, 

 leaves petioled elliptic-ovate or lanceolate acute or caudate- acuminate 

 crenate, peduncles axillary and terminal, bracts caducous, flowers 

 yellow, buds beaked at the rounded or subacute tip, sepals smaU narrow, 

 standard recurved, lateral wing-lobes oblong, terminal narrow elongate 

 acute or obtuse, lip trumpet-shaped horned at the very oblique mouth 

 narrowed into a long slender spur. 



SiKKlM Himalaya and B. JSIipal, common, alt. 6-8000 ft. : Khasia Mts alt 

 5-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. ' 



Usually tall, erect, mnoh branched. Leaves 2-6 in., crenatures with basal or sub- 

 basal bristles ; petiole ^3 in. ; stipular glands sessile or stipitate on the stem or petiole. 

 Peduncles slender, shorter of longer than the leaf; racemes short; bracts setaceous^ 

 caducous long before the expansion of the flower. Flowers yellow, often speckled with 

 red; bud 1 in. long, with a long terminal green beak; sepals sometimes 4; standard 

 orbicular or oblong ; wings with sometimes a twisted acute terminal lobe nearly as long 

 as the spur, which is sometimes clubbed at the tip. Capsule i in., narrow clavate, 

 acuminate, glabrous. ' Seeds small, obovoid, compressed, opaque. — I long hesitated 

 before separating this from J. amgustifiora, but the constantly caducous bracts both in 

 Bikkim and the Khasia Mountains seem to indicate an important difference, which will 

 no doubt be confirmed when the structure of the flower is better known. 



Vab. 1 ; leaves large elliptic caudate-acuminate, terminal wing-lobes acute flat re- 

 curved or twisted. — Sikkim. 



