.] XXXII. GERANiACEiE. (§ Balsamineae, Hook, f.) 479 



? Var. 2 ; leaves small obtuse or subacute, peduncles few longer than the leaves, 

 terminal wing-lobe strap-sbaped obtuse, flowers orange-vellow speckled with red, mouth 

 of lip hardly horned. — I. leptoceras, var. /3, H.f. & T. in Jowm. lArm. Soc. iv. 153, 

 Khasia Mts., at Myrung and Nonkrim — perhaps a diffureut species. 



** Bracts persistent ; spur long, slender. 



116, !• racexnosa, DC. Prook. i. 688 ; erect, quite glabrous, slender, 

 branched, leaves petioled elliptic-ovate or lanceolate acuminate crenate, 

 peduncles lateral and subterminal slender erect, bracts persistent, flowers 

 |-4-in., sepals ovate, standard orbicular, wings with a filiform process 

 descending into the spur, lip boat-shaped with a curved spur eq-uaUimg the 

 pedicel. I. racemosa. Wall. Cat. 4730 in part ; I. tingens, Edgew. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xx. 41 ; a. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. 8oc. iv. 151. I. micrantha, 

 Dm, Prodr. 203. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from Simla, alt. 5-7000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 6-12,000 ft. 



Stem 2-3 ft. high, sometimes glandular above. Leaves 8-9 in., membranous, crena- 

 tures with a bristle in the sinus or near it; petiole \-2 in., slender, naked or with 

 2 sessile or pedicelled stipular glands at the base. Racemes usually exceeding the 

 leaves, not interrupted, lax, (i-10-flowered; bracts ovate, with stout glandular points; 

 pedicels slender. IB'lowers small (4 in.), yellow ; sepals very variable, ovate or oblong, 

 with points like the bracts ; standard not spurred or winged ; wings narrow, pendulons, 

 lateral lobes orbicular, terminal broadly strap-shaped, obtuse, with a basal rounded 

 auricle externally, a slender almost filiform process, with a glandular tip, descends from 

 the inner margin of each wing into the spur. Capsule J^f in., linear-clavate, acumi- 

 nate, glabrous. Seedn large, oblong, compressed, rugose. — A careful examination of those 

 specimens of Wailich's /. racemosa that agree with De Candolle's description, prove its 

 identity with Edgeworth's /. tingens, both having the curious filiform process of the 

 wings concealed in the spur ; and this obliges me to alter the nmnenclature adopted in 

 the Linnean Journal, together with the description, as far as the Khaeian specimens 

 (which must be excluded) are concerned. I have failed to prove the existence of the said 

 processes in the dried Sikkim specimens, which are in a very unsatisfactory state for an 

 analysis of such delicacy as that of the spur ; but I think I detect their presence. The 

 plant varies extremely in size of all its parts, but is always small-flowered. Some of 

 Wailich's specimens have linear-lanceolate bracts. There are two sheets marked 

 I. racemosa in Wall. Herb., and on both are specimens of this, and of what is either 

 J. radiata or a small state of /. Incornuta. The plant distributed by Wallich to the 

 Hookerian and Benthamian Herb. , is that here described. Edgeworth (Trans. Linn. 

 Soc.) describes the standard as keeled and crested, which I do not find to be the case in 

 his specimen, which precisely accords with Wailich's. 



117. Z. laxiflora, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 40 ; tall, branched, 

 quite glabrous, leaves petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate crenate, 

 peduncles subterminal slender fascicled, bracts persistent lanceolate, pedi- 

 cels slender, flower \ in. yellowish, buds rounded at the end, sepals small, 

 standard orbicular, lateral wing-lobes rounded or oblong terminal rounded 

 or elongate, lip conical apiculate narrowed into a long usually curved 

 spur. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 5-10,000 ft. from Simla to Sikkim; Khasia Mts., alt. 

 5-6000 ft. 



Stem 2-4 ft., slender. Leaves 3-5 in , membranonSj crenatures rounded with basal 

 orsubbasal bristles, nerves slender ; petiole 1-3 in.; stipular glands various. Peduncles 

 usually exceeding the leave's, slender; bracts small, .narrow; pedicels not whorled or 

 fascicled, spieading. ^'lowers together with the spur, about 1 in. ; sepals usually small' 

 and narrowly ovate ; standard not crested nor spurred at the back ; wings very variable 

 (if the following varieties all belong to one species) ; lip without a stout callous tip ; 

 spur straight or conical, tip often clubbed. Capsule l-l in., narrowly clavate, mucro- 



