1837.] 



On the Genus Impatiens* 



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lateral sepals and spur, deep scarlet, while the upper projecting portion 

 of the petals is dark purple. 



It grows on branches of trees, on the top of some hills, much exposed 

 to rain and mists, in large tu#s, covered with flowers, when I gathered 

 it forming an object not less curious than beautiful. The distance and 

 intricacy of the way to the station prevented my visiting it more than 

 once, though rewarded with a very large collection of new plants, from 

 having lost my way home, and being forced to spend the night as I 

 best could in the jungles. 



5. Impatiens vi rid '(flora. (R. W.) 

 Herbaceous, erect, ramous. Leaves succulent, congested near the 



ends of the branches, petioled, ovate, lanceolate, acute, incurved b^istie 

 serrated, glabrous. Peduncles axillary, two, rarely one, flowered, longer 

 than the petiol, and shorter than the pedicels, when two. Sepals, uoper 

 vaulted, and crowned with an erect, foliaceous crest ; lateral ones 

 subulate, reflexed. Spur conical, revolute at the point, twice the length 

 of the thick fleshy petals. Petals unequally lobed, upper lobe concealed 

 under the sepal. Capsule glabrous. 



Hab. Shevagerry on the highest part of the hills, about four thou- 

 sand five hundred feet of elevation, forming large masses on the branch- 

 es of trees. 



This differs from its congener, in the small size of its lateral sepals, 

 somewhat in the position of its petals, in having all its sepals of a bright 

 herbaceous green, and in its erect ramous tree like habit. 



§ 3. Leaves alternate, peduncles several flowered, upper sepals 

 petaloid. 



6. Impatiens umbellata. (Heyne.) 



Herbaceous, erect, root tuberous. Leaves crowded towards the apex 

 of the stem, broadly ovate, lanceolate, obtuse from crenated to incurved 

 bristle serrated ; above, sprinkled with short hairs, below, usually colour- 

 ed glabrous. Peduncles shorter than the leaves, bearing 4-6 rather 

 large pedicelled flowers. Sepals, upper orbicular, nearly equaling the 

 petals, not furnished with a herbaceous point. Spur slender, tapering, 

 curved upwards, longer than the petals : lobes of the petals about equal, 

 lower one broader, cuniate. Capsule glabrous, many seeded j seeds 

 echinate. 



Hab. Courtallum, in moist soil in alpine jungles, at a considerable 

 elevation. 



As this plant has hitherto been described from dried specimens only, 

 the accompanying figure may serve to make it better known. I have 

 somewhat extended the character, which is the more necessary, now 

 that so many species have recently been added, and are daily adding to 



