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The Genus Impatiens. [no. 7, new series. 



ing minute leaves ; leaves radical, oval to suborbicular with cor- 

 date base, 7 nerved, glabrous ; pale beneath, with very small 

 bristly serratures, petioles very long, scape much longer than leaves, 

 flowers numerous, long pedicelled ; bracts ovate, acuminated ; up- 

 per sepals vaulted over the stamina, lateral ones small ; lower of 

 compound petals broad cuneate, larger than the lateral one, entire ; 

 spur curved tapering, nearly twice the length of the flower. (Flow- 

 ers large, pale lilac.) In streams, 5000 feet. This is the only one 

 that I have met with radical leaves and an entire lower petal. 



Synopsis of the Peninsular species of the Genus Impatiens. 

 Leaves Alternate. Localities. 

 Peduncles axillary, 1 flowered. 

 Lower sepal spurless. 

 Pedicels and sepals covered 

 with rusty pubescence scabriuscula. 

 Sepals glabrous, flowers minute./, pendula. 

 Leaves minute, peduncles very 



long I. parvifolia . .Anamallay Hills, 



Lower sepal spurred. [8000 feet. 



Suflruticose. 

 Lateral sepals and spur very 

 hairy, upper of compound 



petals the largest /. Munronii . .Neilgherry Hills, 



Lobes of compound petals over- [(Sisparah.) 

 lapping each other, upper 

 sepals emarginate at their 



conjunction /. albida . . . .Courtallum, Pulney 



and Anamallay 

 Hills, 4500 feet. 



Petioles bearing hooked glands, 

 upper sepals larger than pe- 



tals I. floribunda . Shevagherry Hills. 



Herbaceous. 

 Spur hairy, double the length 



of petals /. dasysperma .Pulney Hills, Ana- 

 mallay, Courtal- 

 lum 3 to 40Mft. 



