IMPATIENS GLANDULI'GERA. 
GLANDULAR BALSAM. 
Class. 
PENTANDKIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
BALSAMINACEJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration, 
Introduced 
India. 
12 feet. 
Autumn. 
Annual. 
in 1839. 
No. 829. 
On the peculiar habit of plants their names are 
sometimes judiciously founded ; hence the name 
Impatiens, and also Noli tangere, or Touch-me-not, 
appellations by which this genus is distinguished. 
The elasticity of its ripe fruit, which flies open, we 
may truly say, with great impatience, on being 
slightly touched, is familiar to most of our readers. 
The genus Impatiens promises to be one of great 
interest, when more of its fine species are obtained, 
and many more may be expected; for, says Dr. 
Lindley, in the Botanical Register, “India swarms 
with species of this beautiful genus, all of which 
deserve the care of the cultivator.” According to 
Dr. Wight, as stated in the Madras Journal, at 
least one hundred species occur in those districts 
from which Roxburgh described only three. Forty- 
seven species are named by Wallich from Silhet, 
Pandooa, Nepal, and the Peninsula, and multi- 
tudes occur in Ceylon, and the islands of the Indian 
Archipelago. He further mentions a curious cir- 
cumstance in reference to the species inhabiting 
different parts of India; which is, that most of the 
species from the colder regions of the Himalaya 
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