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INDIAN 
The Balsam Flora of Sikkim is far from exhausted. The Kew 
Herbarium contains specimens in too imperfect a condition to be 
determined, and the smaller species of the sub-alpine region, have 
never been well collected, I have little doubt that when the flora of 
the Western Himalaya becomes better known it will pro*ve one of 
the richest in the world in Balsams. 
Key to the principal sections. 
Series A. — Capsule short, turgid in the middle. 
1.— Inflorescence truly terminal, § i. 
II. — Inflorescence axillary, § 2, 3, 4. 
Series B . — Capsule elongate, linear or clavate. 
I. — Bracts at the base of the pedicels, or o. 
Inflorescence racemose, § 5, 6, 7. 
Inflorescence of solitary or fascicled axillary pedicelled 
flowers, § 8. 
II. — Bracts in the pedicels of a short few-fld., raceme, rardy 
at the base or o, § 9. 
Key to the species. 
Series A, — Capsule short, turgid in the middle, contracted at both 
ends. 
I. — Inflorescence truly terminal. 
§ I, Raceme spiciform ; bracts Jim- 
briate persistent ; seeds with basal 
spiral hairs , . . . i. /. bracteata Co\th, 
II. — ^Inftorescence axillary. 
§ 2. Stetn stout ; leaves a ternate ; peduncles i • fid.; flowers 
large; sepals broad^ rnembranous ; seeds with basal 
spiral hairs. 
Sepals 2, cuspidate — 
Lip infundibular, spur slen- 
der, tip annular . . 2. /. pulchra 
Hk. f. & T. 
Lip scaphiform, spur very 
long, slender , • 3- /• latiflora 
Hk. f. & T. 
Sepals 4, two outer apiculate, two inner much longer. 
Lip subsaccate, spur In- 
curved , • . 4. /. mishmiensis 
Hk. f. 
