482 XXXII. GERANiACE^. (§ Balsamiiieaj, Hook, f.) {Impatiens. 



minute yellow, sepals ovate, standard orbicular, wings short, lip boat- 

 shaped with a gibbosity or boss in place of a spur. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 5-6000 ft., at Surureem on walls, Ch-iffith; at Molim, /. D. H. 

 &T.T. 



Like a very small form of I. racemosa, tut the flowers are not | in. diameter and 

 are not spurred. 1 should have referred it to a reduced form of this plant with minute 

 flowers arrestSd in development, had it occurred in the Hiiiialaya, but the widely- 

 sundered habitat obliges me to regard it as distinot.^C'opsa/e J in., narrow-clavate, 

 glabrous. Seeds small, obovate, compressed, pointed at the hilum. 



OF DOUBTFUL AFFINITY. * 



123. X. g'lauca, H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 155 ; tall, stout,erect, 

 quite glabrous, very glaucous throughout, leaves long-petioled ovate-oblong 

 or cordate coarsely crenate white beneath, peduncles axillary and (;erminal 

 very long and stout, raceme not interrupted. 



Western temperate Himalaya, at Dwali in Kctmaon, alt. 9500 ft., Strach. & Wint. 



Stem very stout, the base of the branch in the Herbarium, which is almost 2 feet 

 long, being as thick as a swan's quill and much contracted, as if succulent when fresh. 

 Leaves 2 in., very obtuse, quite white beneath, membranous, nerves few arched, crena- 

 tures with subterminal cilia or none ; petiole J-J in., with a large scntellate gland at 

 the outer base, which is also present at an analogous position on the peduncle. 

 Peduncles many, 5 in., erect or ascending, the upper fascicled (as if branched) ; raceijie 

 terminal, 6-8-flowered ; bracts caducous ; pedicels stout, | in., fruiting ones spreading, 

 much thickened at the tip. Capsule IJ in., inclined, linear-clavate, glabrous. Seeds 

 several, large, oblong, rugulose.' — Of this very singular species I have seen but one 

 mutilated flowerless specimen ; it is wholly covered with a glaucous secretion of the 

 epidermis, very much as in Hubiis hiflorus ; the long-petioled leaves not naiTowed into 

 the petiole, with coarse crenatures, resemble those of /. Noli-metangere ; it is evi- 

 dently a tall much-branched plant. i 



[The following species has been published by Major Beddome in a number 

 of the Icones, which did not reach England until after Part II. had 

 appeared.] 



33 lis. X. Ballardi, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 44, t. 192 ; slender, rooting 

 below, nearly glabrous, leaves alternate and opposite petioled ovate ser- 

 rate, base with glandular cUia, peduncles slender axillary and' terminal 

 much exceeding the leaves, flowers subumbellate, sepals ovate-subulate, 

 standard orbicular concave, wings dimidiate-lanceolate acute spreading, 

 the lobes separated by a notch only, lip boat-shaped with a very short 

 straight spur which is inflated in the middle and subulate at the tip. 



Mountains of Teavancoe, near Permeede, at 2-3500 ft., Beddome. 



A slender herb, 1-lJ ft. Stem glabrous. Leaves 1-2 in, nerves 3 or 4 on each side, 

 slightly hairy above, glabrous beneath ; petiole •{-% in. Peduncles 2-3J in., subgla- 

 brouB, 5-8-flowered; pedicels slender, bracts minute. Flower f in. long; standard 

 obscurely keeled, spur as long as the wings. Capsule ovoid, swollen, su'bglahrous, 

 7-10-6eeded. Seeds with weak hairs.— Description taken from Beddorae's characters 

 and plate quoted above, where it is stated that it is allied to 7. Goughii, but has much 

 larger flowers and differently shaped petals. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



I. sEMivERTiciLLATA, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1863, i. 594. Annual erect 

 glabrous, branched ; leaves opposite and pften 3-nately whorled, lower long-petioled' 

 upper sessile, attenuate at both ends, repandcrenate, with a bristle between the crena- 

 tures; peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, as long as the leaf, lower solitary, upper fascicled; 



