AN EPITOME OF THE BRITISH INDIAN SPECIES OF 
IMPATIENS. 
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By y. D, Hooker. 
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Part II. 
Additional Western Himalajan Species. 
Impaiiiens Dntbiei, Hk. f. nov. tp. 
This apparently distinct undescribed species from the Western 
Himalaya has been received by me from Mr. Duthie since the publica- 
tion of Part I of the Epitome. It is closely allied to /. hicolor^ 
Royle, but the raceme is not interrupted by the pedicels of the 
flowers being fascicled or ^umbellate, the bracts are larger and ovate- 
lanceolate, the sepals orbicular and aristate, and the leaves are 
of a remarkably membranous consistence. 
II. --Species of the Eastern Himalaya, from the Valley of Khat- 
mandu in Central Nepal to the Hishmi Hills in Upper Assam, 
including the Tibetan Valley of Chnmbi (between Sikkim 
and Bhotan). 
The chief materials procured from this region are, firstly, the 
collection made by Wallich in the Khatmandu Valley (Central Nepal) 
in 1826, It comprises^ about 15 species, of which 5 have not hitherto 
been collected elsewhere. Secondly, my own Sikkim collections, 
made in 1848 and 1849, followed by those of Mr. C. B. Clarke (with 
very valuable notes), Dr. Treutler, Dr. King^s collections (for the 
Royal Botanical Gardens, Calcutta), Mr. Gamble and more recently 
those of Messrs. Pantling and G. A. Gammie, made with special care. 
Mr. Pantling’s are accompanied with coloured drawings and analyses 
of about 20 species, made by himself| that have proved invaluable 
aids to me. 
A very few species were collected in Bhotan by Dr. Griffith 
during Captain Bogle’s mission to that country in 1837-38 which took 
place in the winter months ; and a few in the Mishmi Hills, also. by 
Dr, Griffith, during his adventurouis journey in that region in 1836. 
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