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Contributions to Indian Botany : 



ish, ending in a mucronate point ; the lateral ones, which are unusually- 

 large, very slightly falcate, the lower one speckled within like the 

 petals. Anthers united and opening transversely across the apex. 



Owing to the great size and incurving of the edges of the upper sepal 

 over the upper lobes of the petals, they produce as a whole a campanu- 

 late form — hence the name. 



11. Impatiens viscida. (R.W.) 



Herbaceous, diffuse, rooting at the joints below, above erect; stem 

 angled, a few bristly hairs scattered over it. Leaves alternate, longish 

 petioled, ovate, somewhat acuminated, acutely serrated, veins on both 

 sides, covered with stiff, erect, hairs. Peduncles axillary, 2—4 flower- 

 ed, sometimes longer, but usually shorter than the adjoining leaf, erect, 

 filiform, viscid. Flowers large ; all the sepals about equal, the lower, 

 furnished with a long tapering spur, nearly twice the length of the 

 flower; lateral ones ovate, cordate. Upper lobes of the petals exceed- 

 ing the sepals, 4 or 5 times shorter than the broad nearly semiorbicular 

 lower ones. Capsules glabrous, tapering at both ends, ventricose. 

 Seeds pendulous, hairy. 



Hab. Pulney mountains, in wet swampy ground, at an elevation of 

 about 5,500 feet. Flowers— large, pink. 



§ 4. Leaves alternate, flowers racemose. 



12. Impatiens maculala. (R. W.) 



Herbaceous, erect, ramous. Stem and branches anglef, speckled 

 with brown spots, glabrous, except a few thinly scattered bristle-like 

 hairs. Leaves longish petioled, glanduliferous, alternate, ovate lanceo- 

 late, acuminated, incurved, serrated, hairy on both sides. Peduncles 

 axillary racemose, many flowered, longer than the leaves. Pedicels 

 from the axiles of small subulate bracteas slender declining, pendulous 

 in fruit. Flowers large. Upper sepal vaulted, obtuse, shorter than the 

 ovate acute lateral ones. Spur slender, curved upwards, longer than 

 the petals. Petals 2 lobed, lower lobe, very large suborbicular, upper 

 one, most minute, concealed under the upper sepal. Capsule 5 angled, 

 glabrous. 



Hab. Shevagerry, on the banks of mountain streams ; flowering in 

 August. 



A large and very handsome plant, some of those which I saw, having 

 attained the height of nearly 6 feet. The racemes, are sometimes very- 

 long, nearly a foot; usually they are about the length of the leaves, 

 but have not, then, attained their full growth. Many of the petioles, 

 and occasionally some of the lower serratures of the leaves, have 

 glandular bodies springing from them, spirally involute, like the junior 



